Quotes About Curiosity

Metallic trees. That's new. If you see any steel dryads, be sure to tell me so I can run away screaming.

Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world could pass them by and most people wouldn't notice.

Does Mary Poppins have an orgasm? Does she go to the bathroom? I assure you, she does.

Let your curiosity run away with you. Know that beyond every ordinary explanation there is a deeper and more exciting discovery to be made.

You shouldn't ask questions when you know at heart you'd prefer not to hear the answers.

When I asked [my dad why the sky was blue] he said it was because God's a boy. If God were a girl, the sky would be pink. 'What about sunrise and sunset?' I'd asked. Dad had looked dumbfounded. 'You kids. You think too much.' It frightened me how shallow the gene pool was that Liam and I were wading in.

Black_Venus: Here it goes: Curious mosaic Continental drift Parabolic metaphor Elemental rift Time and transposition Conscious intermission Assertion? Desertion -- Black_Venus: That's all I have so far. You finish it. Me: How about "Spanish Inquisition.

When you discover the joy of reading, your mind opens to a world of wondrous discoveries and infinite possibilities.

Armand was just dumbfounded by the almost universal habit in U.S. academic circles of signing exchanges with "Best." "Who is best?" he asked us. "Why are they best?")

what harm could come from just talking to someone? I learned never to ask that question again because inevitably you'll get an answer and usually not the one you want.

Science never sucks, it vacuums!

If he really didn't want women to call him at the office, he probably shouldn't have told them that. It's like when somebody says. 'whatever you do, don't open that door.' Of course that's the door you're going to open.

I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.

You could do worse than to spend your days staring at blue jays.

The more I work with birds, the more I believe in the undreamt, the things we are not given to know.

I don't know whether there are numbers. And you?

Hasta a la extrañeza es posible acostumbrarse, creer que el misterio se explica por sí mismo y que uno acaba por vivir dentro, aceptando lo inaceptable…

para gentes como ella(la maga) el misterio empezaba precisamente con la explicación.

There was a time when I thought a great deal about the axolotls. I went to see them in the aquarium at the Jardin des Plantes and stayed for hours watching them, observing their immobility, their faint movements. Now I am an axolotl.

Je ne veux pas mourir sans avoir compris pourquoi j'avais vécu.

hay enormes zonas a las que no he llegado nunca, y lo que no se ha conocido es lo que no se es.

Inventaron un cristal que dejaba pasar las moscas. La mosca venía, empujaba un poco con la cabeza y, pop, ya estaba del otro lado. Alegría enormísima de la mosca.

Ah –dijo Oliveira. –Tiene un gato y muchísimos libros.

De ce atât de departe de zei? Poate fiindc? ne punem intrebarea.