Quotes About Curiosity

Here, of course, lies the biggest difference between a successful interviewer and an unsuccessful one: the successful one makes the interviewee feel as though he or she is interested in the answers. The unsuccessful interviewer—and I have sat in or listened to enough interviews to know, unfortunately, and disappointingly, how common they are—does not.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich.

If you're going to read this, don't bother.

With every lecture, you're forced to look again at every choice you've made over the lesson-by-lesson chain of your entire life. And after all these years, you see how little you have to work with, how limited your life and education have been. How scant was your courage and curiosity. Not to mention your expectations.

You ever wonder when god's coming back with a lot of barbecue sauce?

The world can be a lot bet­ter than we set­tle for. All you have to do is ask.

We thought all this teaching was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid. With all the little facts we learned, we never had the time to think.

There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die.

I stepped into the back of a cab and simply told the driver, Follow the blue Christmas tree...

Our real discoveries come from chaos. From going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.

Not that I'm crazy or any­thing, I just want some proof that death isn't the end.

In the movie where somebody is invisible all the sudden—you know, a nuclear radiation fluke or a mad scientist recipe—and you think, what would I do if I was invisible...? Like go into the guy's locker room at Gold's Gym or, better yet, the Oakland Raiders' locker room. Stuff like that. Scope things out. Go to Tiffany's and shoplift diamond tiaras and stuff.

And the moment she says hello, I wouldn't hang up. I'd say, 'Hi. What's happening? Tell me every little thing.

Give me wonder, baby. Flash. Give me amazement. Flash.

Maybe it's better just living the way you figure life is when you're a kid. Before you get too smart.

It's the last frontier to conquer, other people, strangers, the jungle of their arms and legs, hair and skin, the smells and moans that is everybody you haven't done. The great unknowns. The last forest to devastate. Here's everything you've only imagined.

The big question people ask isn't 'What's the nature of existence?' the mouth says. 'The big question people ask is 'What's that from?

Either an ancient cursed Egyptian mummy has come back to life and is trying to kill the people next door, or they're watching a movie.

Kid's got this look like he's just seen the wrong person naked riding a bicycle from behind.

If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?" I say, goodnight. The headliner hangs down in shreds from the ceiling, and Tyler says, Clawing at the lid of her coffin.

Our real discoveries come from chaos," Brandy yells, "from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.

Write what you'd like to read.

As young people, she says, we want something to slow us down and keep us trapped in one place long enough to look below the surface of the world.