Quotes About Curiosity

WHAT HAPPENED TO IGGY ONCE HE GOT HOME

Get it, get it, get it!" moaned Bean. She had never been so bored in her entire life. She was so bored she fell on the floor. Then she took a tiny peek up at the lady in the dressing room next door. Yow. "Get up, Bean!" said her mother. "This minute." Bean got up and sat on the triangle seat again. She waited. Nancy looked at herself. "I kind of like it," Nancy said. "But it costs forty dollars. That's all my

He pointed to a door.

bottom of the sea," whispered Ivy. Bean

Annie Barrows

suspiciously.

Bean looked up into the sky. What if someone was watching her through a giant magnifying glass and thinking the same thing she was? What if she was as small as an ant compared to that someone? And what if that someone was an ant compared to the next world after that? Wow. Bean waved at the sky. Hi out there, she thought.

TED Talk, "The Pursuit of Ignorance.") In the book and the talk, Firestein

Felmenni a városba, álmodozni, maszturbálni és várakozni - így is össze lehet foglalni, mibÅ'l áll egy vidéken töltött kamaszkor.

no one even knows if she likes boys or girls, she won't tell anyone. People resent that about her, and Connell thinks that's why they tell the story, as a way of gawking at something they're not allowed to see.

Instantanément, il lui est venu un air de curiosité et de jouissance, comme s'il me voyait les jambes écartées, le sexe offert. Peut-être trouvait-il aussi son plaisir dans la subite transformation de la bonne étudiante d'hier en fille aux abois.

La vie, le désir, asexués. Je le savais, à quinze ans, en demandant à Colette de nous embrasser sur la bouche, « pour savoir

The most intense part of her life is the time she spends immersed in the books she has insatiably consumed ever since she learned to read.

Sa femme est à côté de moi. Je ne « sens » rien, sinon une espèce de curiosité, mais les quelques paroles qu'ils échangent tous les deux me relèguent à ma condition d'étrangère Ã¢â'¬â€œ doublement. Elle semble ne plus soupçonner quoi que ce soit.

Elle écoutait avec attention tous les gens qui parlaient de ce qu'elle ignorait, par curiosité, par envie de montrer qu'elle était ouverte aux connaissances. S'élever, pour elle, c'était d'abord apprendre (elle disait, "il faut meubler son esprit") et rien n'était plus beau que le savoir. Les livres étaient les seuls objets qu'elle manipulait avec précaution. Elle se lavait les mains avant de les toucher.

I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era.

Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch it to be sure.

Beware the man of one book.

When I was younger if I was in someone else's shoes, if you saw a professional athlete you'd want to go up and introduce yourself and ask a couple questions, so I definitely know where they're coming from.

Once the Europeans become interested in you they make it a point to learn everything they can about your personal and professional life.

I frequently have scenes that take place in places I've never been or characters who have professions that I know nothing about that I've got to research. But that's what Google is for.

Everybody is going to want to look at their genetics. You're going to want to get a genetic profile.

I'd never met Philip Seymour Hoffman, never knew anyone who knew him, never even read a passably revealing magazine profile of him.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.