Quotes About Curiosity

The grass on the other side of the hill may well be greener, but you should always check that there isn't something with teeth and claws crouching in it.

Well, I'm coming with actual rain and wind. It's a whole lot more powerful. Who are you gonna be more intrigued by?

Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out.

Guys, never ask a woman how many men she slept with, cause you don't wanna know. Just be happy you're fucking her now.

The inclination to believe in the fantastic may strike some as a failure in logic, or gullibility, but it's really a gift. A world that might have Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster is clearly superior to one that definitely does not.

I don't think ordinary things are very interesting, so I try to imagine a world that is less ordinary.

We were all pagans once, before we went to school.

What..." Bell whispered. "What happened?" Walter came forward and peered around them. "My God." He winced and turned his head.

I want to be wrong. I want this all to have a reasonable...

and a whimsical ceramic sugar bowl shaped like an octopus.

But Walter was only interested in what Nina was carrying. She was the one with the food.

Try Reiden," he said. "My God," Walter said, putting his own food aside and grabbing the pencil.

What if he did just that? What if he went through the gate?

He took a sloshing step closer, fingers less than in inch from the undulating opening. That's when he heard a terrified scream.

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.

Even then Christa left. Later she often repeated this procedure - of going away - and there's a pattern to be read here, even on first sight: you leave what you know too well, leave what has ceased to be a challenge. Keep your curiosity about other ranges of experience, and ultimately about yourself in any new experience. Prefer the movement to the goal. - Such a nature has obvious drawbacks for its surroundings and itself.

Weil es so glamourös ist, das Herumstreunen an seltsamen Orten, wo einen absolut keiner kennt.

Hey boy! / So don't even tell me your name / All I need to know is whose place / And let's get walking...

This girl may never go anywhere. She should at least know that adventure is in her bones." When

I want to say, Christina, that you are ... unusual. And somehow..." her voice trails off. "Your mind-- your curiosity-- will be your comfort.

Well, you're not exactly effervescent now, are you?" Vivian says. "But I saw you outside earlier when Jack dropped you off, and your face was"—Vivian lifts her knobby hands, splaying her fingers—"all lit up. You were talking up a storm." "Were you spying on me?" "Of course! How else am I going to find out anything about you?

In Mr. Reed's classroom there's a photo of Molly Molasses taken near the end of her life. In it she sits ramrod straight, wearing a beaded, peaked headdress and two large silver brooches around her neck. Her face is dark and wrinkled and her expression is fierce. Sitting in the empty classroom after school one day, Molly stares at that face for a long time, looking for answers to questions she doesn't know how to ask.

story. (And anyway, Lori doesn't ask "why" questions. She's only

On the evening of the third day, I can feel him looking at me. He has a funny expression on his face, like he's doing math in his head. Finally he says, "So what's that thing you got around your neck?" and it's clear what he's up to. "There's no value in it," I say. "Looks like silver," he says, peering