Quotes About Curiosity

This is my idea of a sex dream? Clearly, I need more practice. Scrambling to the edge of the bed, she claps a hand to her mouth, and laughs. "I belched!" she proclaims delightedly. "I always wondered what it would feel like." She frowns. "Ugh. Like a wee gaheena was trying to crawl up my throat. Not a pleasant sensation at all. But once it started coming out, it felt wonderful." She's

Curious lass, aren't you? I suspect it oft gets the best of you.

Need me," he repeated firmly. "Use me to explore the woman who has never been given the opportunity to live. Take from me, need from me, and satisfy all that curiosity I feel burning in you. And by Dagda, let go of that maidenhead. Do you wish to live and die, never having known passion? Never having tasted what I offer you? Be bold. Take." He uttered the last word in a low, masculine tone.

Have fun playing with your artefacts.

The animal has discovered, in me, a new resource, like a new water hole or berry patch. Thus it takes a new and intense interest in what I do. That opens up huge opportunities for understanding. (p.13)

She kept her nose in a book and her head in the clouds.

Rachel, on the other hand, always had her nose in a book and her head in the clouds.

I wanted to touch the edges of my life - the same instinct, I think, that inspires young mortals to flip tractors and enlist in foreign wars.

Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything.

What a weird future awaited her in the past!

But her favorite is the Houdini fantasy. Big Red disagrees with his biographers, who say that he was driven by his longing to shuck off this mortal coil. She knows that he was all the time just searching for a box that could hold him.

Please never stop wanting to collect seashells, taste snowflakes. blow bubbles, smell beautiful flowers, smile at dogs, be amazed by rainbows...okay?

Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?

I loved education, which is why I spent as little time as possible in school.

Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.

A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul

My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.

Stop looking at the walls, look out the window.

I could eat a knob at night.

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know; our knowledge of our ignorance. For this indeed, is the main source of our ignorance - the fact that our knowledge can be only finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

Science is most significant as one of the greatest spiritual adventures that man has yet known.