Quotes About Curiosity

The things I've bought from strangers in the dark would curl your hair.

I see you that have a little swimming mouse

I asked her, dreamily, if we had met, and when she told me that we had not, I gave her a little finger wave, the type a leprechaun might offer a pixie who was floating by on a maple leaf. Well, hi there, I whispered.

He sounded like me when I sensed there were drugs around: All I know is that if someone wants to get high, or wants to watch while I smoke his dope, I'll do it. I really will.

Gambling to me is what a telephone pole might be to a groundhog. He sees that it's there but doesn't for the life of him understand why.

One day I'll wish I had a recording of Gretchen that I could play when I start feeling sorry for myself. I don't know that I've ever met a more enthusiastic person. Her key, I think, is that she's never stopped being interested in things. She's never decided that everything reminds her of something else, that everything worthwhile has been crossed off her list.

Things began to come together, and I went from speaking like an evil baby to speaking like a hillbilly. "Is thems the thoughts of cows?" I'd ask the butcher, pointing to the calves' brains displayed in the front window.

That said, I admire people who are curious and open their minds to new possibilities, especially after a certain age. You have to draw the line somewhere, though, and with me it's my anus.

made it. After the desk clerk hands you your key, the bellman will grab your suitcase and ask, "So where are you coming in from today?

By the time a nurse told me about a patient who had inserted an electric toothbrush up inside himself, and another who'd managed a two-liter bottle of Diet Mountain Dew, I was so inured that I said only, "Wait a minute. Diet?

How can you not want to know what your parasites are talking about?

My mother was, for the most part, delighted with my brother and regarded him with the bemused curiosity of a brood hen discovering she has hatched a completely different species.

It's astonishing the amount of time that certain straight people devote to gay sex—trying to determine what goes where and how often. They can't imagine any system outside their own, and seem obsessed with the idea of roles, both in bed and out of it.

You don't think Babyhands pressed a button he shouldn't have, do you?

On a plaque attached to the NASA deep space probe we [human beings] are described in symbols for the benefit of any aliens who might meet the spacecraft as "bilaterly symmetrical, sexually differentiated bipeds, located on one of the outer spiral arms of the Milky Way, capable of recognising the prime numbers and moved by one extraordinary quality that lasts longer than all our other urges—curiosity.

There's no key to the universe, you just have to point your way in one direction, keep going, keep going, keep going, and see what happens.

Love, dear friends, begins with curiosity.

I hate time travel.

Set phasers to stun, and ... we shall see what happens.

Maybe there's nothing impossible tonight. We're down the hole to Wonderland, and no White Rabbit to guide us. If I remember correctly, the White Rabbit was an unreliable guide, anyway.

I'm no more a wonder than anyone. And that's what makes the world magical. Every baby's a seed of wonder - that gets watered or it doesn't.

I never knew whether I was drawn to eccentric people or if they were drawn to me.

We have all been brought into the world for some reason, and we must wonder why and hope to learn.

The only thing I know for sure is how much I do not know.