Quotes About Curiosity

And didn't they say that, although curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought the beast back?

The road, and the mysteries that lie along it, calls out to none as it calls to the young.

That rational voice was right to be frightened. There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has felt a faint, morbid urge to jump.

A kid of your age—any kid—could get hold of matches if she wanted to, burn up the house or whatever. But not many do. Why would they want to?

I suppose it doesn't matter much. A lot of things don't matter, but it doesn't keep a man from wondering about them, I've noticed.

She is a cat with a burning tail, an ant under a microscope, a fly about to lose its wings to the curious plucking fingers of a third-grader on a rainy day, a game for bored children with no bodies and the whole universe at their feet.

The two of them had discovered it was all right to open the closets...as long as you didn't poke too far back in them. Because things might still be lurking there, ready to bite.

A person could see a lot without ever leaving his own living room. Especially if he had the right tools.

But it was a dreadful kind of curiosity, the kind that makes you peek through your fingers during the scariest parts of a scary movie.

Curiosity is a terrible thing, but it's human.

C-C-Can you get bones in your buh-buh-brain?' Bill asked. This was turning into the most interesting conversation he'd had in weeks.

You know how it's going to end, but instead of spoiling things, that somehow increases your fascination. It's like watching a kid run his electric train faster and faster and waiting for it to derail on one of the curves.

Then, for no reason I could tell you, I tossed the spool again, even though Elaine had asked me not to. Maybe only because, in a way, him chasing a spool was like old people having their slow and careful version of sex - you might not want to watch it , you who are young and convinced that, when it comes to old age, an exception will be made in your case, but they still want to do it.

Curiosity killed the cat, you know, but satisfaction brought him back snap-ass happy.

When you're six, most of your Bingo balls are still floating around in the draw-tank.

The only stupid question, my cullies, is the one you don't ask.

Everybody trusts a guy in a raincoat. I don't know why. It's just one of those mystery facts.

He's got all sorts of strange ideas to catch up on.

I don't want to hear the scary part. But at the same time she does want to hear the scary part, everyone wants to hear the scary part, we're all mad here, and her mother really did say that if you told your dreams they wouldn't come true, which meant you were supposed to tell the nightmares and save the good ones for yourself, hide them like a tooth under the pillow.

The little ones are the only good human beings.

Me cae bien la gente que lee libros, y no sólo porque yo solía escribirlos. Los lectores de libros están tan dispuestos como cualquiera a iniciar una conversación con el tema del tiempo, pero son capaces de pasar de ahí.

We have may teachers, animal, vegetable and mineral

In this world No phenomenon is strange.It surprises us because of our lack of knowledge about it." - Jahanshah Safari

To really meet the mystery, we must be uncertain.