Quotes About Curiosity

As boys do sparrows, with flinging salt upon their tails.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Everything I touch turns to shit, he thinks, not with self-pity, but with an almost scientific fascination at the truth of it.

There was a terminal narrative. It was a story until it stopped being a story and until then they kept wanting to know. Give up... Surrender your need for the detail; there is only one way this is going to end.

And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing.

Outside has everything. Whenever I think of a thing now like skis or fireworks or islands or elevators or yo-yos, I have to remember they're real, they're actually happening in Outside all together. It makes my head tired. And people too, firefighters teachers burglars babies saints soccer players and all sorts, they're all really in Outside. I'm not there, though, me and Ma, we're the only ones not there. Are we still real?

Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for knowledge.

I was walking down the street. Something caught my eye, and dragged it fifteen feet.

My schoolmates would make love to anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.

People come up to me and say, "Emo, do people really come up to you?"

Beware of a man of one book.

Many things are lost for want of asking.

Who wants to become a writer? And why? ... It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower of life, even if it's a cactus.

Suddenly, as they walked with their buckets, it was not the child in each face that she sought, but the Wonder that had raised itself on to its two feet, that had learnt to walk, to run, that had spoken, that had got in touch with life under her hand.

What shall you do?" "I shall continue to explore—the astonishment of living!

I'm good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful.

How could you determine a man's intention if you didn't speak his language or share his beliefs? She'd happily embarked on a study of ancient Egyptian religion but had no curiosity about Islam, which seemed an amalgam of oddities and borrowings. She felt with conviction what she'd written home more than once--that Egypt would be an exquisite country if not for the Egyptians who lived there.

When asked what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common Ø› I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence

Viajar es imprescindible y la sed de viaje, un síntoma neto de inteligencia.

He has always admired writers who each day begin a journey towards the unknown and who nevertheless spend all their time sitting in a room".

Estou apaixonado porque vocês me falaram do amor. Nunca me teria apaixonado se não me fizessem interessar pelo tema." - Enrique Vila-Matas, Filhos sem Filhos

Mas que ingénua é, senhora Rita. Acho piada que se sinta bem em cortar com tudo. No entanto, agora só lhe peço que reflita sobre isto: há pessoas que nunca se teriam apaixonado se não tivessem ouvido falar do amor." - Enrique Vila-Matas, Filhos sem Filhos

Es posible que haya una respuesta para esa pregunta, pero también que jamás llegue a saber exactamente cuál es.

el mejor de la vida es viajar y perder las teorías, perderlas todas.