Quotes About Curiosity

You will laugh at me-silly village girl-for staring at an ice cube like this. You will laugh, but this was the first time I had seen water made solid. It was beautiful-because if this could be done, then perhaps it could be done to everything else that was always escaping and running away and vanishing into sand or mist.

You can interact with a refrigerator: open the door and the light inside turns on. Close the door and the little light goes off. But how many people do you see standing in front of their refrigerators, opening and closing the doors, laughing?

I don't know — yet. But Lorel wouldn't say it without good reason. Don't look now, but there's a squirrel on the fence." David turned his head. A pepper-gray squirrel was balancing neatly on the flat bar between two railing hoops. "Oh, wow. It's Snigger — I think." Chuk! went the squirrel, flagging its tail. It lifted one paw and appeared to smile.

That's what keeps me up at three in the morning: Who's looking at reviews of Cabin Boy right now?

Tonight, we light the symbolic flashlight of under-the-covers reading to celebrate those page-turners we can never put down, even on a school night. I am assured that our Olympic torch will never reach a temperature of Fahrenheit four fifty-one, something the Lorax, the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe were all quite happy to hear.

Using a library can make learning about anything (and everything) fun," he wrote. "When you're in a library, researching a topic, you're on a scavenger hunt, looking for clues and prizes in books instead of your attic or backyard.

All children are born geniuses. The hard part is staying one once you grow up.

Well, not to be mysterious like the Benedict Society

Chris Grabenstein

Riley scooched through a hole he knew about in the fence and carefully headed toward Mr. Jenkins's elevated back porch. It was made of concrete and free of snow, shielded by an angled aluminum awning overhead. As he moved closer, Riley could see the tops of a pair of tan boots peeking out of a wooden crate pushed into a corner where the porch's railings met the house's brick wall.

Chris Grabenstein

Chris Grabenstein

MATH: THE ONLY PLACE WHERE PEOPLE CAN BUY 87 WATERMELONS AND NOBODY WONDERS WHY.

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

Poked a juggling bear in the belly. Tried to toggle Tiny Tim's crutch sideways.

Bring me your best and brightest bookworms, research hounds, and gamers.

What?" said Kyle. "How can a number have a past tense?

You'll Never Feel as Tall as When You're Ten

Está lo raro y lo raro imposible. Lo raro imposible es más interesante.

Some people see the glass as half-empty, while others see it as half-full. But Jones stares at it and tries to figure out who drank the damn water.

There is nothing quite like opening an unfamiliar book that smells like a new memory about to happen.

Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I'm the only person who can't understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they're not that great. These are questions everyone has.

Know as much as you can, about as much as you can.

You can only maintain your interest if you're travelling more in ignorance than knowledge.