Quotes About Curiosity

A child who can love the oddities of a fantasy book cannot possibly be xenophobic as an adult. What is a different color, a different culture, a different tongue for a child who has already mastered Elvish, respected Puddleglums, or fallen under the spell of dark-skinned Ged?

Aren't hidden doors the most alluring? The old stories point that out surely. Even the greatest heroes and heroines fall under the spell of a locked door.

I like norby though time and space because he's not all smart and the storys verry interesting

Maddy: "Um.....William?" she said, driving up the narrow dirt road. "Is there a particular reason you keep a sword behind your backseat?" William: "Because I don't own a gun yet

Garza narrowed his eyes, then leaned back in his

Truth is, I think naked men are kind of strange looking what with their doodles and ding-dong hanging loose like they do. Nevertheless, there's the curiosity thing. I guess it's another one of those car crash experiences, where you feel compelled to look even if you know you'll be horrified.

Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.

I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid.

There are two sides of the Velvet Rope. Those who want to be on the other side and those who are on the other side.

You have no tail!" said Brightspot. her own whipped suddenly forward; she stared, first at it, then at Wilson."How do you manage?

medicine I know. you tell me what a pulsar is and I'll tell you whatever you need to know about the organ of Zucker-kandl." Sulu made a polite scoffing noise and explained anyway,...

Spock stared hard at his tricorder, as if by sheer will he might force it to tell him the answer to his questions.

All right, Spock, I'll bite: why would she take up saber, quarterstaff and eating with chopsticks?" "To extend her reach.

Perhaps we are all too small-minded to glimpse creation, even out little corner of it.

Perhaps we are all too small-minded to glimpse creation, even our little corner of it.

A few major opportunities clearly recognizable as such, will usually come to one who continuously searches and waits, with a curious mind, loving diagnosis involving multiple variables. And then all that is required is a willingness to bet heavily when the odds are extremely favorable, using resources available as a result of prudence and patience in the past.

Life, of course, never gets anyone's entire attention. Death always remains interesting, pulls us, draws us.

Janet Tashjian

Then, as now, archaelogists and writers ventured where others feared to tread.

I can't believe you just did that! Are you crazy?" I gripped the steering wheel tighter. "Why do people keep asking me that?" He turned to stare at me, his eyes worried. "Who else keeps asking you that? Are any of them doctors?

Don't just read words,' he would tell her as he held up the latest story, 'devour them. Let the words create new worlds.

What would be the purpose of having an imagination and not using it?

Everyone is fond of plucky children, kids who launch into adventures, even (within reason) kids who sass back. What about the girl who sits for a long time and watches other children going down the slide, whose legs quiver just from imagining how it will feel to stand at the top of that silver swoop into the unknown?

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.