Quotes About Curiosity

You know how it is when you go to be the subject of a psychology experiment and nobody else shows up and you think maybe that's part of the experiment? I'm like that all the time.

I love convincing a reader that an unusual or seemingly ordinary subject is worth his or her time - it's part of the fun for me as a writer.

Here's a habit I never thought I'd develop: I gravitate to anything online that's marked 'most popular' or 'most e-mailed.' And I hate myself a little bit every time I do.

How important to set aside time each day for the unknowable. How important to reach out: it doesn't matter that I don't yet believe.

I keep vaguely wondering what Macs are like, but the ones I've seen spend too much time being friendly.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.

Do not read to satisfy curiosity or to pass the time, but study such things as move your heart to devotion.

Seduced her? Every time I turned round she was up a library ladder. In the end I gave in. That reminds me—I spotted something between her legs that made me think of you.

Here's another piece of advice, only date people who have read a different set of books than you have read, it will save you lots of time in the library.

I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.

First rule of writing: When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.

Eleven would have been the best time. Eleven is just about the best age for almost everything.

I would watch 'Wizard of Oz,' like every day, when I was two. I had a hard time understanding that I couldn't go into the film, because it felt so real to me.

When I'm making a movie, I don't like to know what's going to happen next. I like to watch something and be surprised all the time, and just not know, and let it take me wherever.

A little-known fact about me: I read all the time.

I've always been fascinated by the concept of time.

I realize, of course, that I wasn't born knowing how to read. I just can't imagine a time when I didn't know how.

Why? is the boy's motto, why does, why is, why not? Food, weather, time, fires, sea and season, clothes and cars and people; it's all grist to the mill of why.

Give me a mirror.Or holy water. I'll drink it,even!" I gasped as someone threw water on the side of my face. "A little warning next time would be nice.

I was allowed to have an imagination rather than a need to be entertained all the time by television or computers or anything like that. So, I think it's helpful to try and give your kids.

When I was working on my career, I was very aware of what I had done, what I wanted to do next. I'm having a good time just reading things that might be interesting to do.

In my most painful moments on the bike, I am at my most curious and I wonder each and every time how I will respond.

We have traveled through space and time. We have been many places. Visited many worlds. And there is good news: the acoustics everywhere are terrific.

Sometimes the closest-held secrets in the world can be pried out by the right question at the right time.