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Quotes About Curiosity

Seeing you with a face would be weird. Do you think you'd have hair?" "Oh yes. Hair is a must." "Would you have a moustache?" "Why would I have a moustache?" "I'm not sure. What about your ears?" "I'd have ears too, yes." "I can't imagine you with ears.
~ Derek Landy
Me either," Fletcher said, "and I've read practically every book written about Teleporters. Not that there are many. There are, like, four.
~ Derek Landy
Hmmm... that's interesting." "What?" "There seems to be a gentleman walking towards us with a shotgun.
~ Derek Landy
Skulduggery: I don't know what they are, but there are dozens of them, relatively small, moving as a pack Valkyrie: They might be kittens Skulduggery: They're stalking us Valkyrie: They might be shy Skulduggery: I don't think they're kittens Valkyrie: Puppies then?
~ Derek Landy
Pleasnt tilted his head curiously. "Scaramouch? Scaramouch Van Dreg? Is that you?" Scaramouch smiled nastily. "Oh yes. You have fallen into the clutches of your deadliest enemy." "What are you doing here?
~ Derek Landy
Exactly," said Saracen. "Everyone would think I decided to specialise in this because I wanted to see through people's clothes." "Why did you specialise in it?" "I wanted to see through people's clothes. I know, I know, but I was a teenager. I thought it'd be great. It's not great. Not at all.
~ Derek Landy
Sometimes I forget that being a skeleton is unusual,
~ Derek Landy
Stephanie, what are you doing here? – Gordon (in the Echo Stone)
~ Derek Landy
Her parents were sitting at the table, staring at the laptop. She grinned. "You get it working?
~ Derek Landy
What all this means is that he could be living across the street from me and I'd never know it. It means that I have not heard one single rumour about him in twenty years, and the fact that he is here and I didn't know about it causes me no small amount of alarm and drives me to unimaginable fury. I am, however, hiding it well. - China
~ Derek Landy
Me? Stay out of trouble? Shouldn't be a problem in the slightest? - Valkyrie
~ Derek Landy
You and me and Never," said Axelia. "I've never been on an adventure. I want to try it out, see what it's like." "Uh … Axelia, I don't know. It might be dangerous." She smiled. "Don't worry, Omen. I'll protect you.
~ Derek Landy
Doors are for people with no imagination" - Skulduggery Pleasant
~ Derek Landy
I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge is limited.
~ Albert Einstein
I am gone quite mad with the knowledge of accepting the overwhelming number of things I can never know, places I can never go, and people I can never be.
~ Sylvia Plath
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
The more we know, the better we realize that our knowledge is a little island in the midst of an ocean of ignorance.
~ Theodosius Dobzhansky
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
~ Anais Nin
The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
~ Aldous Huxley
Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.
~ Max Planck
Knowledge is an island surrounded by a sea of mystery.
~ Chet Raymo
Mystery is more important than knowledge.
~ J. J. Abrams