Quotes About Curiosity

But whoever heard of enchanted bacon anyway?

Jamal stared at the dog in his arms. Why I am I holding a dog full of angels?

Before long, everyone was giving him answers, and feeling a little superior, because it was really remarkable the number of things Chrestomanci seemed not to know. He had heard of Hitler, though he asked Brian to refresh his memory about him, but he had only the haziest notion about Gandhi or Einstein, and he had never heard of Walt Disney or reggae.

Aidan was fascinated by Mr. Stock's hat. Perhaps it had once been a trilby sort of thing. It may once hace even been a definite color. Now it was more like something that had grown - like a fungus - on Mr. Stock's head, so mashed and used and rammed down by earthy hands that you could have thought it was a mushroom that had accidentally grown into a sort of gnome-hat. It had a slightly domed top and a floppy edge. And a definite smell

After this, Boy became very curious about the mansion where the clothes and the food came from. He made me describe everything. Then he asked Good Thing 'Are there books in this mansion, too?' 'And pictures and jewels,' Good Thing said through me. 'What does Master wish me to fetch? There is a golden harp, a musical box like a bird, a—' 'Just books,' said Boy. 'I need to learn. I'm still so ignorant.

In the study, The Book of Palimpsest was, for some reason, now open at A Spell to Find Yourself a Handsome Prince. Charmain shook her head and closed the book. Who needs a prince? she said.

How does she keep it up? How can Miss Hodge be a teacher and not use witchcraft at all? I use it all the time. How else can I have eyes in the back of my head?' 'One of the great mysteries of our time,' Chrestomanci agreed.

Why am I holding a dog full of angels?

Pero quería hacer algo, no estaba segura de qué, algo que fuera un poco mas interesante que adornar sombreros.

What made me think I wanted life to be interesting?

Oh, how your ears flap and your long nose twitches!

But what call has he to be walking around in a charmed suit?

TONINO READ HALF THE NIGHT. With all the grown-ups hard at work in the Scriptorium, there was no one to tell him to go to bed.

The sensory misers will inherit the earth, but first they will make it not worth living on. When you consider something like death, after which we may well go out like a candle flame, then it probably won't matter if we try too hard, are awkward sometimes, care for one another too deeply, are excessively curious about nature, are too open to experience, enjoy a nonstop expense of the senses in an effort to know life intimately and lovingly.

One of the most remarkable things about Antonina was her determination to include play, animals, wonder, curiosity, marvel, and a wide blaze of innocence in a household where all dodged the ambient dangers, horrors, and uncertainties. That takes a special stripe of bravery rarely valued in wartime. While

The search of reason ends at the shore of the known

I have one talent, he wrote, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas.

Play is our brain's favorite way of learning

My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.

I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.

I mean, if you've ever spoken to someone with two heads, you know they know something you don't.

My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.

When friends couldn't be found, the books were always waiting with something new to tell. Life that was getting too much the same could be shaken up in a few minutes by the pictures in a book of some ancient temple newly discovered deep in a rain-forest, a fuzzy photo of Uranus with it's up-and-down rings, or a prismed picture taken through the faceted eye of a bee. -Nita Callahan- -So You Want To Be A Wizard-

When friends couldn't be found, the books were always waiting with something new to tell. Life that was getting too much the same could be shaken up in a few minutes by the pictures in a book of some ancient temple newly discovered deep in a rain-forest, a fuzzy photo of Uranus with it's up-and-down rings, or a prismed picture taken through the faceted eye of a bee.