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Quotes About Curiosity

I have come to have a great affection for monsters...
~ Jeff Vandermeer
There are countless things in this vast universe that humankind does not know.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
If I went rummaging through your carcass, would I find you?
~ Jeff Vandermeer
some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
You could know the what of something forever and never discover the why.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
What can you do when your five senses are not enough?
~ Jeff Vandermeer
I leaned in closer, like a fool, like someone who had not had months of survival training or ever studied biology. Someone tricked into thinking that words should be read.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Some guy stopped by to see you. -Who was it? -I don't know. -You don't know? Was he cute? Did you fall in love with him?
~ Jeffrey Brown
She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
To put it bluntly, if you don't have AD/HD, you do things because they are important. If you have AD/HD, you do things because they are interesting.
~ Jeffrey Freed
Questions are to sales as breath is to life. If you fail to ask them, you will die. If you ask them incorrectly, your death won't be immediate, but it's inevitable.
~ Jeffrey Gitomer
There would be no moon maps in Frank Borman's house, however
~ Jeffrey Kluger
Surround yourself with things that amaze you, and you'll forget about comparing yourself to others.
~ Jeffrey Overstreet
When you know how to find a story – when you know what a story looks like and where they hide – you see them everywhere.
~ Jeffrey Robinson
I dug wild mushrooms out of a jungle in Gabon, plucked 'Vanilla pompona' orchids from Madagascar treetops, tracked down Sichuan hot pot pepper in a seedy back alley in Shanghai. I've sniffed test tubes filled with scents that are not of this earth. But I have never quite been struck the way I have been struck by your apple.
~ Jeffrey Stepakoff
You ask a lot of questions for a girl in a tree." "Asking questions is a sign of intelligence." "I've heard that. Do your parents know you're out here?" "You ask a lot of questions for a lady who looks like she's been up all night." "Intelligence," Grace said playfully. "Barefoot in the mud? I dunno. You don't 'look' so smart.
~ Jeffrey Stepakoff
CHRIS The bane and blessing of human nature. That old cat killer, curiosity. Something so deeply embedded in our psyches that it screams to us from ancient myths of Pandora. Eve. Lot's wife. JOEL Eve lost paradise, Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt. Knowledge doesn't come cheap my friend. CHRIS Good or bad, curiosity is woven into our DNA like tonsils or like the opposable thumb. It's the fire under the ass of the human experience
~ Jeffrey Vlaming
Well, I look at it like this: When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal. If the soup tastes good, everything's cool, and you don't necessarily want to know what's in it. The same thing holds true with movies.
~ Jeffrey Wright
I thought cobblers just ate shoe leather" Jocelyn says as she and her shadow dance by us. I've had enough of this one. "I never have, but if you want to try leather, I'm happy to shove some down your throat.
~ Jen Calonita
She played with one of her braids. Three years feels so far away . "Hey." Kristoff moved closer. "Your hair." "Oh." She was used to this question. "The white stripe? I was born with it," she explained. "That's what my parents were told. They actually adopted me when I was a baby. I dreamt that I was kissed by a troll." Kristoff's eyes widened. "Did you say 'troll'?" He hurried after her to hear more.
~ Jen Calonita
Lost in the Library
~ Jen Calonita
buns or shoe leathers. Riveting stuff. I can't imagine what the FTRS
~ Jen Calonita
Do either of you like...dragons The girl with the ribbon lights up like a firefly. I've always wanted to meet a dragon! Bingo!
~ Jen Calonita
That day he was looking at one that didn't seem to be written in their language. It was filled with symbols and drawings of trolls. She longed to know what her father was studying, but didn't ask.
~ Jen Calonita