#curiosity

With Charles Woods, it was the first time I had ever seen tissue from a dead person used to save a human life. It piqued my curiosity. ↗

— Joe Murray

#curiosity #dead #ever #first #first time

Curiosity killed the cat,” Fesgao remarked, his dark eyes unreadable. Aly rolled her eyes. Why did everyone say that to her? “People always forget the rest of the saying,” she complained. “‘And satisfaction brought it back. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#cat #cats #curiosity #fesgao #darkness

I watched the enormity of the clouds for several minutes. What I wanted to experience in the water, I realized, was how life of the reef was layered and intertwined. I now had many individual pieces at hand: named images, nouns. How were they related? What were the verbs? Which syntaxes were indigenous to the place? I asked a dozen knowledgeable people. No one was inclined to elaborate- or they didn’t know. “Did you see the octopus?” Someone shouted after the dive. Yes, I thought, but who among us knows what it was doing? What else was THERE, just then? WHY? ↗

— Barry Lopez

#diving #mystery #ocean #reefs #experience

Miss Fitt, you know curiosity gets men killed." I grinned. "Then I daresay it's good I'm a woman. ↗

— Susan Dennard

#humor #snark #humor

Children, be curious. Nothing is worse (I know it) than when curiosity stops. Nothing is more repressive than the repression of curiosity. Curiosity begets love. It weds us to the world. It's part of our perverse, madcap love for this impossible planet we inhabit. People die when curiosity goes. People have to find out, people have to know. ↗

— Graham Swift

#love

A warm feeling comforted the boy, as if a blanket were wrapping its soft layers around his heart and nuzzling him snuggly. Gavin loved his mother, and he would be forever grateful to his father for protecting her. The whole mystery behind it made him itch with curiosity, however. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#curiosity #father #gratitude #love #mother

Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side? ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#a-song-of-ice-and-fire #curiosity #george-r-r-martin #tyrion-lannister #wall

What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this span of life by him who interests his heart in everything. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#inspirational #inspirational

Remember when your curiosity inspired your investigative mind to explore and learn… you weren’t bogged down with resentment, cynicism, and emotional baggage… just think about how great it would be to return to that mindset of unencumbered learning and adventurous living… you are just one choice away from that life… choose to let go of the infertile past… go live your adventure! ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#curiosity #inspirational #learning #life #experience

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

#cheerful #curiosity #endows #form #generosity