Quotes About Curiosity

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Stay back, human. You don't know what you're dealing with.

Orion brightened. I have an idea. Yes? said Foaly, daring to hope that a spark of Artemis remained. Why don't we look for some magic stones that can grant wishes? Or, if that doesn't work, you could search my naked body for some mysterious birthmark that means I am actually the prince of somewhere or other.

I feel like Alice falling into Wonderland. A line came to him: It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.

Doobie always wanted to see the badge. It was shiny, and he was eight.

The craft's occupants clutched their armrests, and more than one of them closed their eyes. But not Artemis. He couldn't. There was something morbidly fascinating about flying into an uncharted tunnel at a reckless speed with only a kleptomaniac dwarf's word for what lay at the other end.

Victor Vigny: A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon. Conor Broekhart: Which resembles a giant banana.

These headsets could pick up a spider scratching in Madagascar." "And is there a spider scratching in Madagascar?" "Well … I don't know. They can't really—

If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.

Artemis remembered a few lines from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: "But I don't want to go among mad people," said Alice. "Oh, you can't help that," said the cat. "We're all mad here.

More to follow.

But I don't want to go among mad people," said Alice. "Oh, you can't help that," said the cat. "We're all mad here.

So what's going on in there? Anything interesting?" Root tried to answer, but his soldier's vocabulary just didn't have the superlatives. "What? What is it?" The commander made an attempt. "It's…the human…I've never…Oh, forget it, Foaly. You're going to have to see this for yourself.

One, don't call me Julius. Two, do what I say, horsey boy, or I'll have your budget slashed. And three, what in Frond's name is the cancan?

Foaly verspilde maar verder geen tijd aan de vraag waarom hij in vredesnaam een plasmakanon aan een weeshuis zou hebben geschonken.

Science was taking the magic out of everything.

Mulch on the other hand couldn't have found his childhood with an encyclopedia.

Es konnte nie schaden zu wissen, wo sich das ortsansässige Getier so rumtrieb.

Demersul suprem al ratiunii este sa afle ca exista o infinitate de lucruri care o depasesc. Si e o ratiune slaba daca nu ajunge pana acolo.

I have a tremendously high opinion of the age of five, by the way. I actually think that to become really mature is to return to the age of five, to become able to recapture the capacity for absorption, for learning, the tremendous hunger to master skills that you have at five years...I always feel that I was a brilliant child at the age of five, and that I've been declining ever since.

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.

He dropped his towel. He showed me what I had gotten myself into, what wanted to get into me.

nobody who can think should ever be forced into a situation that bores them.)

want to beg you, as much as I can, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue.