Quotes About Curiosity

I liked to walk up Fith Avenue and pick out romantic women from the crowd and imagine that in a few minutes I was going to enter into their lives, and no one would ever know or disapprove.

Where are you from? inquired Anthony. He knew, but beauty had rendered him thoughtless.

Hello—what hotel is this—?

As our credulity switched back to her she leaned forward with enthusiasm. 'You look at him sometimes when he thinks nobody's looking at him. I'll bet he killed a man.' She narrowed her eyes and shivered.

Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay

judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person

Think of it as if you were standing on one of those globes with a map on it — I always wanted one when I was a boy." "I understand," she said after a minute. "When you do that, you can feel the earth turn, can't you?" He nodded. "Yes. Otherwise it's all just mañana — waiting for the morning or the moon.

molti tipi curiosi e reso vittima di non pochi inveterati scocciatori.

inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild

She [dreamily]: I've kissed dozens of men. I suppose I'll kiss dozens more. He [abstractedly]: Yes, I suppose you could--like that. She: Most people like the way I kiss. He [remembering himself]: Good Lord, yes. Kiss me more, Rosalind. She: No-- my curiosity is generally satisfied at one.

Como consecuencia me inclino a reservarme todos los juicios, un hábito que me ha abierto muchas naturalezas curiosas y me ha hecho víctima de no pocos veteranos aburridos.

I returned rather feebly to the subject of her daughter. "I suppose she talks, and—eats, and everything.

I wasn't actually in love, but felt a sort of tender curiosity

I hadn't the faintest idea what 'this matter' was, but I was more annoyed than interested.

A??k olduÄŸumu söyleyemem ama ona kar?? müÅŸfik bir merak uyanm??t? içimde.

I'm not sure what I'll do, but—well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.

Albert and I would spend hours and hours looking at them. Cleo had this big magnifying glass on his desk, and we'd find centipedes and grasshoppers and beetles and potato bugs, ants . . . and put them in a jar and look at them. They have the sweetest little faces and the cutest expressions. After we'd looked at them all we wanted to, we'd put them in the yard and let them go on about their business.

Grandma Harper has two green bottles shaped like women with black hair painted on their heads and a yellow glass colored captain's hat that she keeps her face powder in that I want too, and a picture of a naked girl in a swing, swinging way up in the air over castles in a blue sky. I don't know why I want those things, I just do.

Her daughter had given her a puff of a marijuana cigarette once, but after all the hot pads on the counter started walking toward her, she got scared and never tried it again. So dope was out.

Because, honey, she said, after you've been to the moon, where else is there to go?

What can I tell you about the town? I suppose if you had driven through it back

Other educational systems teach you to take tests; the American system teaches you to think.

Science is based on nothing other than what-ifs, and skepticism with regard to the preconceived notions that make up the material world.

The marsh toads interviewed the eagle 'How come you venture so high? Aren't you scared you'll hit the ceiling That blue metal dome they call the sky?' The eagle knew these earth-bound creatures Were ignorant of boundless space And couldn't conceive of infinities Not being born to the wind's embrace." From Bachchoo's Fables