Quotes About Curiosity

Wolf Boy thought he wouldn't know one notice from another. And anyway, what was a Quarantine? Wolf Boy imagined a horrible monster,

When Jenna asked Marcia what happened when you unscrewed the lid, Marcia told her that the Shield Bug would leap out and defend you until its last breath, or until you managed to catch it and put it back in the jar, which did not usually happen.

Do you have a Boggart?" she asked Broda. Broda looked surprised. "You want a Boggart?

Boy 412 reading Thaumaturgy and Sortilage: Why Bother? with avid interest.

Maar Brandneus negeerde Jannit. Hij vond het verveld als mensen met hun armen zwaaiden en dingen riepen als: 'Hierheen, híérheen! O, alle gaffelschoeners nog aan toe, wat doet dat beest nu weer?

Het is Snorri maar, met de NachtUllr.' Septimus begreep er niets van, maar als Jenna niet bang was van een grommende panter, zou hij zich er ook niets van aantrekken.

Marcia's fine," said his older self. "And that is all you want to know right now.

Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.

How come I can pick my ears but not my nose?

Whenever you ask questions with curiosity instead of judgment, you are invoking guidance.

And the curious thing was that Dr Weis had never met anyone, man or woman, friend or colleague, who could stand literature when not on the page.

Of course, the spectacle of two people's happiness is always something of a magnet for the unclaimed.

And when a girl walks around and reads all of the signs with all of the famous historical names it really makes you hold your breath. Because when Dorothy and I went on a walk, we only walked a few blocks but in only a few blocks we read all of the famous historical names, like Coty and Cartier and I knew we were seeing something educational at last and our whole trip was not a failure.

As children, in our own school of life, we soak up clues about our world just as eagerly as small squirrels. Exposure to children's books provides verbal and visual material to help us along the way. So subtle and varied can the lessons be that it may take years before we use everything we absorbed.

Wendell Minor: I believe that children's books are the last pond in the Serengeti. They are the only place we go to drink for inspiration. All of us can still go - and do....

We think that we know what life has to offer, but life never fails to surprise us.

Little Lloyd, what in the world are you watching?" He was sitting there, his eyes glued to the screen where a half-naked girl was performing calisthenics to something that passed for music. "Britney Spears," he said.

I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.

What are you smoking and why aren't you sharing?

In answer, Viveca's breasts peaked.

Sometimes he asked Sandy questions, not expecting much of an answer, but because he wanted to make him think, hoping that it might become a habit.

But people often had a voyeur's excitement when they were close to a violent death, as if it conferred a degree of celebrity on them.

Oh, I'm interested in everything, Joe. That's why I'm a bloody brilliant detective.

The inspector listened to folk talking, just throwing in a question occasionally, like tossing a pebble into a pool and waiting to see what the ripples stirred up.