Quotes About Curiosity

His mild efforts at curiosity had been rebuffed--not with coldness but with her single-minded focus on her cases. And yet he could sense something deeply vulnerable about her. It was that part of her that spoke to his soul. He wasn't a ledge talker for nothing.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

I don't know much about sports.

Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.

For years, I had no time for exploratory travel.

About the body I know very little, though I am steadily trying to improve myself, in the way animals improve themselves by licking.

I like to have nice conversations with a man that teach me something, make me mad, make me curious. Then I find him attractive.

How much wood can a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Most people get excited over new cars; I get excited over death certificates. It's no wonder my husband worries about my state of mind.

This business of giving people what they want is a dope pusher's argument. News is something people don't know they're interested in until they hear about it. The job of a journalist is to take what's important and make it interesting.

I have undertaken to to find an explanation for something that can't possibly be explained-Nero Wolfe

I asked if I could use the bathroom. She showed me, down the hall, and I went, though I really had nothing much to pass but the time, and on the way back there was an open door and I entered. A good detective doesn't have to be invited. There

and when Archie Goodwin wonders about anything he finds out.

Mysteries are like cayenne for the brain. The senses do pick up. Who was Jack the Ripper? Who killed Judge Crater? How did I burn through my paycheck so fast? Such questions can intrigue or infuriate, but the mind snaps to attention. from the Introduction

That is always a triumph, to evade boredom.

The inquiring mind is rarely blessed with certainty; it must make shift with assumptions;

The best my head could do was let in a wild idea about the four of them taking turns with the window pole, presumably with Mrs. Demarest along to keep count of the jabs.

I had a classics professor at the University of Illinois who after giving a reading assignment said, with genuine emotion, "Oh, to be reading Boethius for the first time." And so I say to you, "Oh, to be reading a Nero Wolfe mystery for the first time." —Stuart M. Kaminsky

You might have thought we were bound for the stratosphere to shine up the moon and pick wild stars.

Those who don't believe in magic will never find it." Roald Dahl (1916–1990)

Those who don't believe in magic will never find it." Roald Dahl (1916–1990) WRITER

The world is full of magical things waiting for our wits to grow sharper." Eden Phillpotts (1862–1960) NOVELIST AND POET

Oh, you're missing so much, Alice," Emily said. "Books are wonderful. You can get transported away by a good story. If we're living in a place like this, we can read about Paris or a tropical island and feel like we're there.

Veintisiete años con más mundo que el que descubrió Colón, color sonrosado, ojos de más preguntas y respuestas que el catecismo, nariz de escribano por lo picaresca, labios retozones, y una tabla de pecho como para asirse de ella un náufrago, tal era en compendio la muchacha.