Quotes About Curiosity

Ladies Nite E ery Nite." Virgil spent the next few seconds of his life wondering if the "v" had fallen off, been stolen for some reason, or was simply a scarce letter that the bar hadn't happened to have on hand.

learn more about

Smalls looked around the office and asked, "Where do you want me to stick the shovel?

Lipsky said: "I'll tell you something, Layton: ninety-five percent it's nothing. Probably somebody shot a buck out of season, and you were smelling the gut dump. Those can be pretty hard to see in the dark, once they go gray. But, five percent, we gotta go look.

You don't mess with astronomers, Joe.

with The Joy of Sex, which he found under the bed—when

He likes to know things. He checks out book and record collections when he visits people, looks in medicine cabinets, takes inventory in refrigerators. He eaves drops on conversations at public phone booths. He reads murder victims' mail.

But define 'completely ridiculous shit,' Duvall said. Does space travel count? Contact with alien races? Does quantum physics count? Because I don't understand that crap at all. As far as I'm concerned, quantum physics could have been written by a hack.

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.

Is it a shark made of ice? Hanoen asked. Or a shark that lives in ice?

When you're a kid all you want to do is be somewhere else.

When I was twelve, my appendix burst, and as they were wheeling my ass into the operating room, I asked the doctor, "How will this affect my piano playing?" and he said, "Don't worry, you'll still be able to play the piano," and I said, "Wow! I wasn't able to before!" And then they gassed me.

Is it painful? the groundskeeper asked. I am asking for science.

Who are you, who is so wise in the way of alien fungus?

All right, first question. Where the fuck am I?" The person Kiva Lagos addressed sat at a small desk in a small room and appeared amused. "I thought your first question might be who the fuck am I." "All right, fine. Who the fuck are you?" "My name is Captain Robinette." "Hello, Captain Robinette. Charmed. Where the fuck am I?

Who are you and what medications aren't you taking?

Well, 'explode' maybe isn't the most accurate term. What actually happens is much more interesting.

One day I'd like to visit this planet without having to toss myself down its atmosphere.

The ientcio wishes to inform you that we have indeed received those messages from SETI and have found them … amusing is probably the best word. Television is much more interesting.

The goal shouldn't be to make your child eat an entire set of encyclopedias by the age of six. The goal should be to encourage your child to be curious—to want to learn about the world, and explore the things that are in it.

Still, I'd like to know how you came up with that line of reasoning." "You can thank a rabbi," Javna said. "And a hot dog.

You see tools and parts and my arm shoved inside a small spacecraft, and you really have to ask what I'm doing?

Your friend Leon certainly didn't join to be in the military - he can't stand the people we will protect. People join because they're not ready to die and they don't want to be old. They join because life on Earth isn't interesting past a certain age. Or they join to see someplace new before they die. That's why I joined, you know. I'm not joining to fight or be young again. I just want to see what it's like to be somewhere else .

How is it so far?" asked Cloud. "How is what so far?" "This," Cloud said, and motioned around him. "Life. The universe. Everything.