Quotes About Curiosity

She was not sure how to pronounce his name, not even in her head would the sound make any sense. She had to look away to stop herself from making up more stories about him.

Books. I am attracted and repelled; books are conversations that are not addressed to me and I want to sneak up and listen but I also want to be invited in. If I was invited in the conversation would not be what it was.

Why are you reading that book? Are you in doubt about something?

Why do people go to these places, these places that are not for them?

Do you think we'd still be standing here if he had shown up? What do you think we'd be doing here?' I asked. I got away with it because I put the question as if I was curious rather than just giving sass. But one of the boys told Louis, 'I guess your girlfriend likes to talk.

Kazim used to give me strange looks whenever I tapped a corner of one of his comic strips and asked what was next. He thought it was strange of me to ask. What's next is what happened before.

The men look at Aunt Mia the way I might look at a hot fudge sundae in the hours between lunch and dinner. You know, when you're not sure if it's a good idea to go ahead -- you're interested beyond a shadow of a doubt, but you wonder if it might turn out to be a little too much for you. Men seem to realize that Aunt Mia's already making the most of herself.

Harriet read more voraciously than Simon and Margot ever had. They discouraged this; she'd be so bored once she ran out of texts that were new to her. She surprised them with the discovery that once an avid reader runs out of books, she reads people. Harriet read everybody she met, and when she met them again, she reread them.

I look suspiciously at the half-empty glass in my hand.

I don't think a tough question is disrespectful.

One is never sure, watching two cats washing each other, whether it's affection, the taste, or a trial run for the jugular.

Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.

jamás he conseguido interesarme por cosas que sé que jamás les ocurrieron a personas que nunca han vivido. ¿y qué hace usted ahí todo el día, sentado en la trasera de su tienda y leyendo sin parar? ¿por qué no trata de venderle algún libro a alguien?

Buying a book you've never read is like buying a dress you've never tried on.

To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.

Every time Wallander stepped into someone's home, he felt as though he were looking at the front cover of a book that he had just bought

Humanity is the desire for novelty founded upon the fear of death

Avouons notre ignorance, mais ne nous résignons pas à la croire définitive.

I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.

Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent, and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play.

We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.

You study, you learn, but you guard the original naïveté. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.

At the age of eight, I still dreamed of being granted plant status.

Books are boring to read. You can't move around in them as you wish. You are asked to follow. The trail is traced, one way.