Quotes About Curiosity

he was at only twenty-eight, witnessing their most uptight female friend asking to see their junk at four in the afternoon. She rolled her eyes at

The deuce, it is!" Mason ejaculated.

As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.

Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

There isnt always an explanation for everything.

No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.

I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.

That's all we do, isn't it -- look at things and try new drinks?

I don't know, I said. There isn't always an explanation for everything. Oh, isn't there? I was brought up to think there was. That's awfully nice.

I thought she was probably a little crazy. It was all right if she was. I did not care what I was getting into.

The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.

How little we know of what there is to know.

I'm always reading books—as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.

Let us not doubt, brother. Let us not pry into the holy mysteries of the hen-coop with simian fingers.

For this, that now was coming, he had very little curiosity. For years it had obseessed him; but now it meant nothing in itself. It was strange how easy being tired enough made it. Now he would never write the things he had saved to write, until he knew enough to write them well

You know the only thing I've ever lost is curiosity, he said to her. You've never lost anything.You're the most complete man I've ever known

The boy Paco had never known about any of this nor about what all these people would be doing on the next day and on other days to come. He had no idea how they really lived nor how they ended. He did not even realize they ended.

I wanted to try this new drink: That's all we do, isn't it—look at things and try new drinks?

Ma che cosa posso raccontare a questa ragazza, ora, in questa fredda mattina ventosa al Gritti Palace Hotel? "Che cosa vorresti sapere, Figlia?" le chiese "Tutto quanto." "Va bene" disse il colonnello. "Incominciamo.

and with the pain the horror had gone and all he felt now was a great tiredness and anger that this was the end of it. For this, that now was coming, he had very little curiosity. For years it had obsessed him; but now it meant nothing in itself. It was strange how easy being tired enough made it.

That's all we do, isn't it—look at things and try new drinks?

I am not sure Scott had ever drunk wine from a bottle before and it was exciting to him as though he were slumming or as a girl might be excited by going swimming for the first time without a bathing suit.

He's written about all the things he knows, and now he's on all the things he doesn't know

Cruise around by yourself and see what happens to you.