Quotes About Curiosity

You may admire, even love those photographs, but you don't look at them and think What happened next? They have an immutable quality - that's their strength and power. But there's no question embedded in them. There's a question embedded in all your work, that sense of 'what happens next.

Perhaps instead of scaring ourselves we need to surprise ourselves every day. We are, after all, always a work in progress.

the world is full of peculiar

She had gone to a dinner party in her honor the night before the opening, and everyone had asked, with precisely the same intonation, as though it was a piece of urban Gregorian chant, Where have you been?

Perhaps we are the world's great nomads, if only in our minds.

That's why I ask." "What

Funny, that no one had ever asked what had happened to the dishes, the scraps, the crumbs in the photographs, on the poster.

She wants to be someone else, somewhere else, and I can't blame her.

Gilbert, what is the matter with you?—why are you so changed? It is a very indiscreet question, I know,' she hastened to add: 'perhaps a very rude one—don't answer it if you think so—but I hate mysteries and concealments.

When the Irish novelist John McGahern was a child, his sisters unlaced and removed one of his shoes while he was reading. He did not stir. They placed a straw hat on his head. No response. Only when they took away the wooden chair on which he was sitting did he, as he puts it, 'wake out of the book'.

A dark imagination is, perhaps, more appealing before you know anything about darkness.

our father used to tell us stories about a bookworm named Wally. Wally, a squiggly little vermicule with a red baseball cap, didn't merely like books. He ate them.

For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

how funny it was that people lived all over the world and you never thought of them until you went someplace new.

I want to see the world and do all kinds of exciting things, and a little money won't hurt.

I found that it was easier to think up questions than to ask them.

stayed awake on purpose until half past eleven one evening in order to have a good look at the moon for once by myself.

I wonder if it's because I haven't been able to poke my nose outdoors for so long that I've grown so crazy about everything to do with Nature?

Normal insanlar bilemezler kilit alt?nda yaÅŸayan için kitaplar?n ne anlama geldiÄŸini.

This morning I was wondering whether you ever felt like a cow, having to chew my stale news over and over again until you're so fed up with the monotonous fare that you yawn and secretly wish Anne would dig up something new.

Usually, when I want to know something, I find it in some book or other, don't you?

There's a lot to be said about the boys, or maybe not so much after all. [entry 6/15/42]

Everyone here thinks my interest is just a passing fancy, since they've never heard of a teenager with an appreciation of mythology. Well then, I guess I'm the first!

If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise, you'll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you've already been in.