Quotes About Curiosity

Well, I am going on 83 now but not about to quit. There are too many things I know about where I want to see what happens. You, my dear, being one of them, and this new century starting. Do what you can to make it good. And remember, as we used to say, that life is like a pudding: it takes both the salt and the sugar to make a really good one.

A reader lives 1000 lives before he dies.

Common politeness required that I find out; so did extreme nosiness.

Buy an atlas and keep it by the bed—remember you can go anywhere.

I didn't need to control her…Hell, I just wanted to sit back and watch her, try to figure out what made her tick and hold on for the ride.

Hey, sweet butt," he said. That broke the spell. Sweet butt? What the hell kind of guy called a girl he'd never met something like that?

What should girls read?" Caroline asked, as Anna entered the library. "Everything," Anna replied. A

Hannah! You've simply got to stop finding bodies. I swear you attract them like a magnet. If you're not careful, everyone's going to get the wrong impression of you." - Delores Swenson

She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world.

A black cat crossed my path, and I stopped to dance around it widdershins and to sing the rhyme, Ou va-ti mistigri? Passe sans faire de mai ici.

Why not"! That is SO wise. So many things would be possible in this world if you thought "Why not?" all day long.

The way you ask a question chooses its answer.

But Lily pushed on. "Why do you think that is, that you love these people you don't know?" Adri shook her head. "I don't. I'm just curious." Lily shrugged. Offhandedly, as they were leaving the room, she said, "Maybe it's because you're invisible to them. Maybe that's why you let them in." She tapped on the wall on her way out, as if for good luck. "It's less scary that way.

Others wonder, if the Bogey isn't wearing his pants, who is?

Books are the way to stretch out people's souls, and I won't have children with small souls.

Not only is the universe stranger than we think. It's stranger than we can think.

You go to school everyday. Folks who think they've learned everything they need to know are usually dumber than chickens.

But I should not have to explain to you how important it is for science and simplicity to coexist. One must not fear to be a little child again, when times of wonder are at hand.

We need all types of knowledge. Why not expand our circle of information?

That's the trouble with answers. They're never as exciting as the questions, somehow.

Why-why-why!... Ask it of everything your mind touches, and let you mind touch everything!

The plane blew up." "I wonder what happened to all the other people?" As soon as I'd spoken, I wished I hadn't said that. I decided shy people shouldn't try to make conversation, not even in an emergency. If I manage to talk to strangers at all, nervousness always makes me say the wrong thing.

We came across a rucksack, wedged in among the coral. It was fastened up, but it seemed to have been invaded by some weird fluffy white sea creature that was trying to get out. "What's that ?" said Arnie, poking it. Miranda and I took a second look, and started to giggle. "It's tampons," I said. "Expanding widthways when wet—" "Yecch!

A life of making isn't a series of shows, or projects, or productions, or things: it is an everyday practice. It is a practice of questions more than answers, of waiting to find what you need more often than knowing what you need to do. Waiting, like listening and meandering, is best when it is an active and not a passive state.