Terry Pratchett Quotes

He [the cat] liked to peep into the refrigerator and risk having his head shut in by the closing door. He also climbed to the top of the stove, discontinuing the practice after he singed his tail.

I try to be led by my curiosity.

If I see anything vital around me, it is precisely that spirit of adventure, which seems indestructible and is akin to curiosity.

I went through a phase where I thought it was really funny to make pratfalls in very crowded places. I jumped out of a moving car once, for a laugh. That was a mistake.

It was on a bulletin board that I first learned about hacker culture, the 'Let's just break through this wall and see what's on the other side' mentality.

If you're a foolhardy, braggadocio male figure who wants to charge forward in every fight, it has its pros and its cons, that's for sure.

I'm a guy that, if I see people running away from something I'm like, 'Why you running away? What's over there?'

I like a drink and enjoy being Jack the Lad. I've had a few scraps and spent a night in a cell.

I am not good at following rules, I am not good at following instructions, I am not good at driving slow.

I'm just a very curious guy who has a lot of possibility.

They went to sea in a sieve, they did; In a sieve they went to sea; In spite of all their friends could say.

Inquiry and curiosity is really important in any profession, but definitely in what I do. And in parallel you also need to be confident enough to try things. So it's a tricky thing sometimes to balance those two states.

Curiosity is the other side of caution.

Love color. Take risks. Stay curious.

Few things in Avonlea ever escaped Mrs. Lynde. It was only that morning Anne had said, "If you went to your own room at midnight, locked the door, pulled down the blind, and sneezed, Mrs. Lynde would ask you the next day how your cold was!

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

Keep your mouth shut, and close up the doors of sight and sound, and as long as you live you will have no vexation. But open your mouth, or become inquisitive, and you will be in trouble all your life long.

I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.

Bravery ceases to be bravery at a certain point, and becomes mere foolhardiness.

I'm a keep running through the red light living my life.

People say be safe and I hate that, so I go to Skate Lab with no pads

What is "this drive"? It's the tendency to not simply accept things as they are but to want to think about them, to understand them. To not be content to simply feel sad but to ask what sadness means. To not just get a bus pass but to think about the economic reasons getting a bus pass makes sense. I call this tendency the intellectual.

If I see a door ajar, I push on it to see how far it will open, and if it opens wide I go through it.

I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism.

A friend of mine, the most innocuous dreamer who ever lived, once set a forest on fire to see, as he said, if it would catch as easily as people said. The first ten times the experiment was a failure; but on the eleventh it succeeded all too well.