Quotes About Curiosity

He crossed the street toward the man in the trench coat, which left me with two choices: follow my dad and see what was going on, or do what I was told. I decided on the slightly less dangerous path. I went to retrieve my sister

One the next corner stood a cinder block restaurant with a hand-painted sign that read CHICKEN & WAFFLES. There was a queue of twenty people outside. "You Americans have the strangest taste. What planet is this?

What would you study, Percy?" "Dunno," he admitted. "Marine science," she suggested. "Oceanography?" "Surfing?" he asked. She laughed, and the sound sent a shock wave through the water. The wailing faded to background noise. Annabeth wondered if anyone had ever laughed in Tartarus before—just a pure, simple laugh of pleasure. She doubted it.

There's nothing here," Carter said. "What do you want?" I asked. "We've got wax, some toilet papyrus, an ugly statue.

Who are you and why are you my cat?

Knowledge isn't always good for you.

I looked back, but Bast and Sadie seemed fine. They were still staring at the water as if it were some amazing Internet video.

Amir took a deep breath. To his credit, he didn't collapse, curl into a ball, or cry, all of which would have been perfectly acceptable responses to finding out there were squeaky-voiced beings in the sky that would invite you up their rainbow.

A Styrofoam egg carton caught his eye. He opened it and found a single silver orb with little blinking red lights. This is cool, too! He dropped it into his backpack. Dan, no! What? They've got plenty of other stuff, and we need all the help we can get! It could be dangerous. I hope so.

His lion and hippo legs twitched. I wondered if netherworld monsters dreamed of chasing rabbits.

Enchiladas! Grover said. I wasn't sure where that came from, but it didn't seem to help much.

Of course, most mortals can't see magic clearly, so I'm not sure what they thought they saw as we passed overhead. No doubt it caused many of them to adjust their medication.

Apparently, word of the chicken man incident hadn't spread quite yet.

Judging from her wide eyes, I guessed the answer was, No, and does hallucinations run in the family?

Never mind, Leo said. I'm pretty sure pi is, uh, 3.1415 blah blah blah. The number goes on forever, but the sphere has only five rings, so that should be enough, if I'm right. And if you're not? Frank asked. Well, then, Leo fall down, go boom. Let's find out!

I held out my dad's magic box and let it o, sure it would smash to the floor. Instead, the box disappeared. "Cool," I said. "Sure you I can get it back?" "No," Bast said. "Now come on!

Tell us, cat!

I grabbed a pair of glowing red legs.

The impossible is merely the possible for which we don't yet know the science

WOULD IT SURPRISE you to learn that the place was bigger on the inside?

So, Frank said. Your name isn't Sammy? Leo scowled. What kind of question is that? Nothing, Frank said quickly. I just— Nothing.

So, if I looked him up on google maps-

Ptah? son of ptooey? What is he god of spitting? i asked

Who wrote that? Kitty had