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Quotes About Curiosity

Caitlin was fascinated by Vix's pubic hairs. "Lay down," she said, "and I'll count them for you.
~ Judy Blume
Ralph arrived first. He's really fat. And he isn't even four years old. He doesn't say much either. He grunts and grabs a lot, though. Usually his mouth is stuffed full of something.
~ Judy Blume
I wonder what it's like watching ladies try on underwear all day? I'd really like to get a look at that!
~ Judy Blume
As soon as I got into bed I started touching myself. I have this special place and when I rub it I get a very nice feeling. I don't know what it's called
~ Judy Blume
Most malls are haunted. Did you know that?
~ Judy Sheehan
To be an artist is to recognize the particular. To appreciate the peculiar. To allow a sense of play in your relationship to accepted standards. To ask the question "Why?" To be an artist is to risk admitting that much of what is money, property, and prestige strikes you as just a little silly.
~ Julia Cameron
Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.
~ Julia Cameron
Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
~ Walker Evans
Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
~ Walker Evans
Everyone knows the moon's made of cheese.
~ Wallace and Gromit
I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!
~ Wallace Shawn
Somewhere, sometime, somebody taught her to question everything - though it might have been a good thing if he'd also taught her to question the act of questioning.
~ Wallace Stegner
We are strange creatures, and writers are stranger creatures than most.
~ Wallace Stegner
An acquaintance with books and learning was not a thing that a frontier boy like John Wesley Powell could take for granted; he had to seize it as he could. Abe Lincoln said it for every such boy with brains and dreams in his head: "The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is a man who'll git me a book I ain't read.
~ Wallace Stegner
Poetry is a search for the inexplicable.
~ Wallace Stevens
It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.
~ Wallace Stevens
Man is an eternal sophomore.
~ Wallace Stevens
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
~ Wallace Stevens
When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
~ Walt Disney
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
~ Walt Disney
Too many people grow up. That`s the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don`t remember what it`s like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won`t do that
~ Walt Disney
Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
~ Walt Disney
Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.
~ Walt Disney
At wuntz? What HE do? What HE do? Who do? Wuntz do hoo doo? How do he do hoo doo? Once do who do? What? What!? To wit, WHAT.
~ Walt Kelly