Quotes About Curiosity

Really, Poirot! In the Middle Ages you would certainly have been burnt at the stake. How can you possibly know the things you do!

The weapon lay on the floor - a bronze figure about two feet high, the base of it stained and wet. Mr. Satterthwaite bent over it curiously. "A Venus," he said softly. "So he was struck down by Venus." He found food for poetic meditation in the thought.

Yes, yes, I know that. But why did you fall in love with him? What attracted you to him so much?" She crinkled her eyes as though trying to see through the eyes of a girl now dead.

But I did really want to know. I mean, it's interesting, don't you think, to know all about people? What they feel and think, I mean, not just who they are and what they do.

She sipped once more.

Softly unbolting the door, he stuck the cat's head round the edge and ejaculated a piercing "Miaow." The Scotland Yard inspector, who was standing outside with another man, jumped in spite of himself.

There is a great charity always to the dead. Do you know what I should like this minute? I should like to find someone who knew Elizabeth Barnard and who does not know she is dead! Then, perhaps, I should hear what is useful to me—the truth.

It is a mystery to me," I said, "how anyone gets any nourishment in this place. They must eat their meals standing up by the window so as to be sure of not missing anything.

Turn up the lights,' said Mr Rycroft. Major Burnaby rose and did so. The sudden glare revealed a company of pale uneasy faces.

followed his instructions, taking up my position by the baize door, and wondering what on earth lay behind the request.

Poirot, never in the least scrupulous about reading other people's correspondence, glanced through them.

Her questions came with a kind of eagerness. The thought flashed across his mind that she must be very bored.

Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything, so that we will miss nothing. Partly it's greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.

What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.

A story can start from the oddest things: a magic lamp, a conversation overheard, a shadow moving on a wall.

Seek knowledge even if it's in MACS0647-JD.

The path less taken disinterests me while the path frequently taken appalls me. I'd rather find a path never taken before

The secret of life isn't an attempt to explain everything but, rather, to understand that certain things can't be explained. Demanding that everything is to be dissected neath a microscope is madness. Hence the attempt to explain everything is madness.

Readers are made not born.

Man I studied phychology, Theology, Archeology, the nervous system, The Brain, algerba, Anatomy, read the Bible four times in its entirety, politics, and so much more.

Il y a encore une mer à traverser oh encore une mer à traverser pour que j'invente mes poumons pour que le prince se taise pour que la reine me baise encore un vieillard à assassiner un fou à délivrer pour que mon âme luise aboie luise aboie aboie aboie et que hulule la chouette mon bel ange curieux.

ma chère penchons sur les filons géologiques (my dear let us lean on geographical veins)

like the scorpion's question mark drawn in the pollen on the canvas of the sky and of our brains at midnight