Inquisitive Behavior Quotes

You is getting nosier than a parker.

Writers are nosy people; we are endlessly curious: we ask questions when we shouldn't - we peek around corners when we are least expected.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

I've always been, since I was a little kid, and my son is quite observant, too.

An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.

Why were you lurking under our window?" "Yes - yes, good point, Petunia! What were you doing under our windows, boy?" "Listening to the news," said Harry in a resigned voice. His aunt and uncle exchanged looks of outrage. "Listening to the news! Again?" "Well, it changes every day, you see," said Harry.

Avoid him who from mere curiosity asks three questions running about a thing that cannot interest Him.

People are curious and want to know about stuff.

I can be a bit nosey. I like a bit of gossip.

He was asking too many questions and he was asking them too quickly. They were stacking up in my head like loaves in the factory where Uncle Terry works. The factory is a bakery and he operates the slicing machines. And sometimes a slicer is not working fast enough but the bread keeps coming and there is a blockage. I sometimes think of my mind as a machine, but not always as a bread-slicing machine. It makes it easier to explain to other people what is going on inside it.

My mother tells me that I was a very busy, curious child and that I quite often challenged my father when I was little, which she thought was rather good for him!

Every dog has like me the impulse to question, and I have like every dog the impulse not to answer.

Americans stick their nose where it doesn't belong more than Cyrano de Bergerac giving head.

I realize I stare at everyone, especially when I'm walking down the street. I'm just a curious person.

There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great many people, we do not think he can be an exceptionally good man.

Under no condition can you teach curiosity.

I was one of those annoying kids that was always like, 'But why?'

One thing about Italians is you can't let them in your head. They're inquisitive. The English and Germans are a dog tribe; the Italians are cats. They're very helpful, but it's in their own rhythm, their own way, and it can drive you crazy.

Teenagers are always sneaking around in drawers where they shouldn't go and reading things they shouldn't be reading. And that's an attempt to try, I think, to penetrate, that's how I found out as a teenager what was going on, was by sneaking into drawers and reading letters that I had no business reading.

Curiosity did kill the cat, but I'm very curious.

I think I'm very curious about other people. I like to sit and eavesdrop, you know.