Quotes About Curiosity

It's part of a writer's job to be nosy about everything.

I love writing, and just as much, I love undertaking research.

Don't you sometimes find daily life almost unbearably poetic? Minute curiosity is a requirement of the travel writer – as it is of the biographer, novelist and poet. The significance of the trivial is what makes a piece of travel writing human, not the stuntish business of being the first person to paddle the Congo. Out there on the road, I have often found that the most aimless and boring interludes yield, in the long run, the most fertile material.

he's a story i want to know from page one

The annoying part of wanting to know everything about everything is that it somehow always results in only knowing something about something

we hunger for other worlds. We long to go beyond the streets we know, beyond our familiar woods and fields, and into the land of Faerie; to Middle-earth, Narnia, or Summerland; to the kingdom east of the sun and west of the moon. This longing isn't incidental.

Did he really just poop a rainbow? Seriously, did that just happen? Because I saw it happen.

can't decide if it's pretty or creepy, which, come to think of it, is about the same way I feel about you.

It takes me less than a minute to pick a pin-tumbler lock, but in that minute, anyone could wander into the hallway and say, "Sky, are you picking the lock on your mother's office?" Dad. I swear I have the nosiest family of all time. First Charles, now Dad. Couldn't anyone just mind their own business while I skulked around suspiciously?

The circumstances of our meeting. I was wounded, my eyes were bandaged, and she saved my life. But most curious, ridiculous, really, if examined logically, is the fact that though I never actually saw the woman, I fell in love with her.

Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.

With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.

The only question I ever ask any woman is, 'what time is your husband coming home?'

At a time when so many scholars in the world are calculating, is it not desirable that some, who can, dream ?

With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time learning what it's like to live in someone else's shoes.

Yeah, I fancy women big time... I check them out more than I check men out. Maybe I would want to sleep with a woman... Not Beyonce, although I like the look of her, I don't think she's that dirty.

It was a black and white only computer at the time, but it kept me fascinated.

Playing with decks, for me, has always been about trying new things. I make it a point to keep trying different things, keep pushing it a little bit at a time.

The one thing I don't understand is when people make comments who are clearly not fans of mine. I think, why are you here? Why are you wasting your time? It's fascinating.

Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom to shed blood from time to time.

People think that children don't know anything. It's enough to make you wonder if grownups were ever children once upon a time.

I always have kind of a few books going at the same time.

Reality lies far beyond space and time, and I need to know why.

The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants.