Quotes About Curiosity

The best way to begin is to say: 'Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at the paintings'.

With books at least, the best experiences are not when you find what you were looking for, but when something quite different finds you, takes you by surprise, shifts your tastes to new territory.

If someone wants to know about Scientology, they should just go and read about it themselves. That's the best way to do it.

The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to see mystery again

The best way to get kids reading more is to give them books that they'll gobble up - and that will make them ask for another.

Take my last best advice: Try everything twice!

We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions

I'm going to go pee. If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.

When you're a kid and you're in a classroom, anybody would die to be hanging out in London or having their sixteenth birthday in Japan.

When I was four, I asked my mother for a valet for my birthday.

Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.

All art is a kind of exploring. To discover and reveal is the way every artist sets about his business.

Never underestimate your own ignorance.

It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?

Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.

Before I begin, may I ask how old you are?" "You may ask." "How old are you?" "It's none of your business

When digging ceases to be a great game and becomes, as in Egypt, merely business, it will be a bad thing.

There's a Harvard Business School thing that says, 'Every 10 years you should replant yourself,' and the only way to keep young is to learn new things and keep curious.

A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.

The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story.

What's her name?" "None of your business." "That can't possibly be her name.

Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.