Quotes About Curiosity

rooms a thousand times before. There was a raucous through-the-wall

Why's everybody looking at me? he asked. We checked the tape, she said. You know, the surveillance camera. So? She wouldn't answer. He reviewed his time in the room. He'd showered twice, walked around some, pulled the drapes, slept, opened the drapes, walked around some more. That was all. I didn't do anything, he said. She smiled again, wider. No, you didn't. So what's the big deal? Well, you know, you don't seem to have brought any pajamas.

Car keys?" She

Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer.

Firstly, I have no idea what you're talking about. I run my diner. That's it. Period, full stop. I have nothing else going on the side. And secondly, even if I did, what have you got that I could possibly want?

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first Reacher didn't know what he was looking at.

I wanted miles to travel and absolutely no idea where I was going.

Physicist Paul Davies 1 Would

I breathe deeply, and certainty enters into me like light, like a piece of science, and curious music seems to hum inside my fingers. Is there a single person on whom I can press belief? No sir. All I can do is say, Here's how it went. Here's what I saw. I've been there and am going back. Make of it what you will.

One of the things Rune admired about Lucy was her impractical curiosity. She was writing notes in the margins.

Why am I still surprised when it turns out there is more to the story?

As someone called Anonymous once said, 'You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk-dancing.

I like talking to you,' he said, slowly. 'Why?' That was the way to hear nice things. Ask why.

People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.

To librarians, booksellers, and collectors there is nothing limited in the subject of books about books.

As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder.

According to the laws of chance, if you look around enough, you are bound to find something interesting.

I can barely make out my own handwriting in the semidarkness, but no matter. I don't know if anyone will ever read this. Maybe someone will. If so, that someone can only be you. I try to imagine who you might be and where you might be reading this. Are you comfortable? Do you feel secure? Let me write these words to you, then, personally. I greet you, my friend. Thanks for your time and attention, even your curiosity. Welcome to my world. Welcome to my iron lodge. Welcome to Leavenworth.

Having wandered some distance among gloomy rocks, I came to the entrance of a great cavern ... Two contrary emotions arose in me: fear and desire--fear of the threatening dark cavern, desire to see whether there were any marvelous things in it.

To become an artist you have to be curious.

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward; for there you have been, and there you long to return.

Tell me if anything was ever done... Tell me... Tell me.