Quotes About Curiosity

See as much as you can see, I guess. Rachel Carson said most of us go through life unseeing. I do that some days...I think it's easier to see when you're a kid. We're not in a hurry to get anywhere and we don't have those long to-do lists you guys have.

Your mind is like a parachute, It works best open..

This is the strangest life I have ever known.

I wouldn't mind dying in a plane crash. It'd be a good way to go. I don't want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD... I want to feel what it's like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it

Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was: just curiosity.

There's the know. And there's the unknown. And what separates the two is the door, and that's what i wanta be. Ahh wanna be th' dooooooooorrr...

There are things known and things unknown, and in between are the doors...

Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality.

The writer is just answering a series of unuttered questions.

This is the strangest life I've ever known.

Sector 7 by David Wiesner (Clarion, 1997)

A crowd of men stood in front of them. Of all ages, with expressions of sex-wonder in their eyes, gazing curiously as men who cannot solve a mystery that populates graveyards and through the ages has sent poets, popes, kings and fools to the junk heap.

I have always learned the most about the world by going to places I was never supposed to be and being with people I was never supposed to meet.

There will always be those who feel more comfortable not venturing from the warmth of the hearth, but there are those who prefer to look out the window and wonder what is beyond the horizon.

Life is so much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.

How could this have happened when everything was normal?

I was not going to Honolulu because I wanted to see life reduced to a short story. I was going to Honolulu because I wanted to see life expanded to a novel, and I still do.

I went because I was interested in the alchemy of issues.

Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing. The answer is "nothing.

Tell me," a rabbi asked Daniel Bell when he said, as a child, that he did not believe in God. "Do you think God cares?")

Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel.

I know what 'nothing' means, and I keep on playing. Why, BZ would say. Why not, I say.

Nothing was irrevocable; everything was within reach. Just around every corner lay something curious and interesting, something I had never before seen or done or known about.