Quotes About Curiosity

There was a time when the government cut off funding to SETI, basically, and I thought it was something that should continue, and it was a very interesting scientific question.

I don't have any set things that I'm looking for, like, 'I've done this now I want to do this,' kind of thing. Just read the material, if it appeals, if it makes me laugh: like, 'Death at a Funeral' made me laugh out loud.

I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.

When I was a kid, I would fantasize about my own funeral.

Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.

It is a queer world and fantastic world. Why can't people have what they want?

The game is worthwhile in so far as we don't know what will be the end.

I go to see a Greater Perhaps.

I go to seek a Great Perhaps.·

i go to seek the great perhaps

I go to seek a Great Perhaps

I shall live forever and ever and ever ' he cried grandly. 'I shall find out thousands and thousands of things. I shall find out about people and creatures and everything that grows - like Dickon - and I shall never stop making Magic. I'm well I'm well

As she came closer to him she noticed that there was a clean fresh scent of heather and grass and leaves about him, almost as if he were made of them. She liked it very much and when she looked into his funny face with the red cheeks and round blue eyes she forgot that she had felt shy.

Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, but people don't know what it is like or how to make it.

You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.

The difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always sitting with her little nose burrowing into books. She doesn't read them, Miss Minchin; she gobbles them up as if she were a little wolf instead of a little girl. She is always starving for new books to gobble, and she wants grown-up books--great, big, fat ones--French and German as well as English--history and biography and poets, and all sorts of things. Drag her away from her books when she reads too much.

That's what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward.

Mistress Mary Quite Contrary

Trataré de descubrir qué significa para mi la magia pues creo que hay magia en todo lo que nos rodea.

Two lads an' a little lass just lookin' on at th' springtime. I warrant it'd be better than doctor's stuff.

It sounded like something in a book and it did not make Mary feel cheerful. A house with a hundred rooms, nearly all shut up and with their doors locked—a house on the edge of a moor—whatsoever a moor was—sounded dreary. A man with a crooked back who shut himself up also! She stared out of the window with her lips pinched together, and it seemed quite natural that the rain should have begun to pour down in gray

If Mary Lennox had been a child who was ready to be amused she would perhaps have laughed at Martha's readiness to talk, but Mary only listened to her coldly and wondered at her freedom of manner.

Perhaps it is the key to the garden!

The difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always sitting with her little nose burrowing into books. She doesn't read them, Miss Minchin; she gobbles them up as if she were a little wolf instead of a little girl. She is always starving for new books to gobble...