Quotes About Curiosity

If you can doubt at points where other people feel no impulse to doubt, then you are making progress.

Why are you looking at me like that?" I'm counting your freckles. I've wanted to since I first laid eyes on you," he whispered, so close now that she could hardly breathe. She smiled to hide how nervous it made her. "I take it you have a lot of time to kill?

Where are you taking me?" Abby asked from the passenger seat of the pickup.

He started for his office, but something was bothering him. Turning back to her, he said, "I have to know. DJ walks in and you instantly like her. You've never liked any of the women I've dated, and you've never done more than share a few words with them on the phone. What is different about this one?" he demanded, trying to keep his voice down. Marge smiled. "You'll remember this one's name.

What were you doing out here?" He chuckled. "Looking for aliens. What else?

What would it hurt to have one cup of coffee with him?

If she wants to start a new habit, she gets excited and curious instead of overwhelmed.

The breaking off, in the midst of that one was about to say, as if he took himself up, breeds a greater appetite in him with whom you confer, to know more.

A man that is busy, and inquisitive, is commonly envious. For to know much of other men's matters, cannot be because all that ado may concern his own estate; therefore it must needs be, that he taketh a kind of play-pleasure, in looking upon the fortunes of others. Neither can he, that mindeth but his own business, find much matter for envy. For envy is a gadding passion, and walketh the streets, and doth not keep home: Non est curiosus, quin idem sit malevolus.

A man who is always rushing into the street will become familiar with the street. One who is forever changing from subject to subject will not become painfully acquainted with any one, but he will know the outsides of them all, and the road from each to the other.

The lust to meet authors ranks low, I think, on the roll of holy appetites; but it is an authentic pang.

If you stay in one place, you can only rap about one thing because that's all you know.

But I feel like I developed my own love for hip-hop and rap music by myself. Just growing up and hearing new things. As you grow up, you begin to listen to new music that this kid is listening to, then you begin to like your own music, and start discovering it yourself.

When I first heard 'Pearly Gates' by Mobb Deep and 50 Cent growing up, the rapper Prodigy had a line about wanting to beat Jesus up. I wasn't religious, but I'd never been introduced to something like that. I was scared and mad, but then I asked why I felt like that.

Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.

Kids are always open to anything. It's very rare that a kid isn't extremely eager to make you happy.

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

It's rare that I read more than two or three books by any one author; usually only one.

I'm the sort of person who would be perfectly happy spending an entire day in a rare books room.

It's very rare that you can be in a career for as long as I have and still feel like you're constantly learning and coming at it from an almost childlike perspective.

I know there's a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.

It happens very rarely that your ears perk up about a certain project.

I rarely know too much about anything I'm getting involved in.