Tavi Gevinson Quotes

Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.

Like a cat I have nine times to die.

A woman hath nine lives like a cat.

The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.

Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery.

I'll never read every single book or go to every single place. But I'll die in the trying of it.

I'm always looking for challenges.

A goal isn’t something you just arrive at and stop. You have to stay curious and hungry and foolish...

We've become a nation of indoor cats, he'd said. A nation of doubters, worriers, overthinkers. Thank God these weren't the kind of Americans who settled this country. They were a different breed! They crossed the country in wagons with wooden wheels! People croaked along the way, and they barely stopped. Back then, you buried your dead and kept moving.

A man has one, a cat has nine, and in between it's killing time.

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but her's curiosity could have massacred a pride of lions.

We have to have dreams, even if they never come true.

Curiosity did not kill the cat all by itself.

For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back.

My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat'.

And I a smiling woman. I am only thirty. And like the cat I have nine times to die.

Curiosity might have killed the cat, but little girls usually fared much better.

I fantasize about everything; being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.

I was always willing to say, "Let's see what happens," when something came up that looked like it might help me get a little closer to where I wanted to be . . .

My name is October Christine Daye; I live in a city by the sea where the fog paints the early morning, parking is more precious than gold, and Kelpies wait for the unwary on street corners. Neither of the worlds I live in is quite mine, but no one can take them away from me. I did what had to be done, and I think I may finally be starting to understand what's important. It's all about finding the way home, wherever that is. I plan on finding out. I have time.

Men grow when inspired by a high purpose, when contemplating vast horizons. The sacrifice of oneself is not very difficult for one burning with the passion for a great adventure.

I've always had a feeling that any time you can experiment, you ought to do it. Because you never know what will happen.

Human nature is fond of novelty.

The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.

I'm like everyone else—I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.