Quotes About Curiosity

BOWSER THE HOUND BY THORNTON W.

Thornton W. Burgess

Thornton W. Burgess

Everybody should eavesdrop once in a while. There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

that many people would never have fallen in love if they had not heard about it.

To survive, a story must arouse wonder.

our town we like to know the facts about everybody.

many people would never have fallen in love if they had not heard about it.

Thornton Wilder

balloonwallas tried to seduce the children with their

when they gazed at the sea, people held their heads up, and their faces became curious and open, as if they were searching for something that linked them to the sun and the stars, looking for that something they knew would linger long after the wind had erased their footprints in the dust.

But inexplicable things happened to him, and Shane accepted life's oddities. He didn't know if this made him an adventurer or an idiot, but one thing was true—nothing interesting ever came from a clear path of rationality.

Is Eight based on a real person? You describe her so intimately. It's like I'm peeking in on something I shouldn't see." "Do you think Eight's real?" "Definitely," she said, nodding. "Then she is." "That's not an answer." "I know." He grinned.

Don't you want to know why?" With twinkly eyes, he said, "Tell me later." "Bold of you to assume there'll be a later." "Bold of you to assume there won't be.

Long ago, she'd learned that life could be bitterly disappointing if allowed. There were blows and stumbles, but your job was to stay interested in the world.

I always consider every place worth exploring once- just in case there's a thirty foot flaming sign divulging the secret of life, that no one has told me about.

Orbán decides to visit his in-laws in Szolnok. I'd never been to Szolnok, so I tag along

I like to say I don't believe in mystics . I don't believe in fate. I don't believe in destiny or kismet. I don't believe in God. I don't believe in anything. But I believe in the possibility of everything .

Ingeniously, [Heinrich Wickmann] was able to use a pencil to mark that bit of the egg he could see inside the hen's oviduct, through its cloaca prior to laying. (I can just imagine his wife popping into his study with a cup of coffee and seeing Wickmann with his pencil up a hen's bottom: 'What are you doing, dear?' she asks...).

I wandered around for hours, dodging falling poo in alleyways

Life was invented for kids. But then we all grow up, and society imposes filters that block the joy of silliness and sponging up pointless little things that make childhood the magic time for which it is widely known.

The way I figured, I was just a kid, and if I could take it apart, they surely could put it back together. Then my mom would walk in the kitchen and see me standing on a chair at the counter, holding a screwdriver with disassembled components all over the place. 'What the heck's going on?' 'I'm intrigued how the blender works.

Is he dead?" "Not sure," said Serge, "but blood from the ears rarely precedes a big dance number.

Florida is a theme park," said Serge. "And the theme is weirdness.