Quotes About Curiosity

And I beseech you, forget not to informe yourselfe as dilligently as may be, in things that belong to Gardening.

fearing nothing but the unknown in a world of mysterious wonder.

I went to the library and found again the books that had changed my life: Sherwood Anderson, Jack London, Knut Hamsun, Dostoevsky, D'Annunzio, Pirandello, Flaubert, de Maupassant. The welcome they gave me was much warmer than the cold curiosity of old friends I met in the town.

Jefferson was the rare student who came to college already knowing that there could be joy in studying.

Halt looked up at the trees above him. "Why does this boy ask so many questions?" he asked the trees. Naturally, they didn't answer.

Isn't that someone we know?" asked Horace. He pointed to where a cloaked figure sat by the side of the road a few hundred meters away, arms wrapped around his knees. Close by him, a small shaggy horse cropped the grass growing at the edge of the drainage ditch that ran beside the road. "So it is," Halt replied. "And he seems to have brought Will with him.

All we could get out of them was that they were taking us to 'Kurokuma'. We didn't know if that was a place or a person. What does it mean, by the way?' 'I'm told it's a term of great respect,' Horace said, unwilling to admit that he didn't know.

Which leaves us to the question, what is he up to?" Evanlyn said. Will shrugged. "I suppose we'll find out soon enough," he said, and urged Tug forward to take up the point position once more. They found out the following evening.

You've always said I should have an inquiring mind," she said. "I have. But not an interrupting one.

Mind you, Princess Cassandra used to stalk us when she sneaked out of the castle as a girl.

Uh... is dat een bonte havik?' vroeg Will... 'Nee, dat is geen bonte havik,' zei Halt nors, zonder zelfs even de moeite te nemen te kijken waar Will naar wees. 'En als het er toch een is kan hij de pot op.

Maybe we'll catch a dragon in a tadpole net.

Only a fool thinks he knows everything.

Better to suspect something and find nothing than to suspect nothing and find something.

Zo, kijk nou eens wat de kat me komt brengen,' zei hij opgewekt. 'Hoe kom jij in 's hemelsnaam hier terecht, Halt?' 'Wij zijn gekomen om je te bevrijden,' antwoordde de oude Jager. De oberjarl keek vragend naar de leren riemen waarmee zijn vrienden waren vastgebonden. 'Nou, je hebt daarvoor een vreemde tactiek verzonnen dan.

WHERE THE BLIND, BLUE, BLITHERING BLAZES HAVE YOU BEEN?

she wondered where the food had escaped to.

I looked at his teeth. That's what people seem to do when they look at animals. They look at their teeth.

Why not?" Then she thought further. "I wonder what Halt will say when we put it to him.

Halt never ceased to be fascinated by the way women, young or old, big or small, could not resist the temptation to feed Horace.

In de naam van Boh-Raka, waar heb je dat gevonden? En wat is het? - Karina

Herten, konijnen en een oggel-oggel-oggel vogel... Hoe klinkt dat, Ed? - Hal

The following day, he would find a bruise and wonder how it got there. When

Misschien leert ze er toch van, dacht hij, en gaat ze deze keer niet meteen als een gek in de aanval. En misschien dat die grote blauwe walvis, die volgens de Skandiërs zorgt voor eb en vloed, ineens uit de golven omhoog komt springen, vleugels krijgt en een rondje om het schip vliegt.