Isobelle Carmody Quotes

He [Nico] regarded Jason, as if waiting for an attack. 'If the others found out-' 'If the others found out,' Jason said, 'You'd have that many more people to back you up, and to unleash the fury of the gods on anybody who gives you trouble.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

I've always been blessed, or cursed, some might say, with an insatiable curiosity, a desire to find something out about a people and a place. That's where it all begins.

What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.

I just love asking questions. I love people. It's in my DNA. I'm cursed - and blessed.

People are innately curious.

People are curious and want to know about stuff.

We're all like detectives. We want to figure things out. Life, you know, we want to figure out life, and we want to figure out what's going on, so it's beautiful. It's beautiful that people are thinking.

Giving people what they want isn't always what they want.

The 1950s to me is darkness, hidden history, perversion behind most doors waiting to creep out. The 1950s to most people is kitsch and Mickey Mouse watches and all this intolerable stuff.

You are curious and quick, you have a deft mind, and for some unaccountable reason, people tell you things -- useful things.

The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity.

No, you can't go getting mad at people because they're shitty. Life will get mad at them, don't worry.

Americans are interested because they are open-minded. They have an education system that teaches them to find out for themselves why things are the way they are. Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.

We wait until Pandora's box is opened before we say, "Wow, maybe we should understand what's in that box." This is the story of humans on every problem.

I was always very curious about other people. I would always stare and my mother would say - just please close your mouth!

It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions.

Most people who have told a lie think they got away with it … when in fact, they didn’t

People often say that I'm curious about too many things at once... But can you really forbid a man from harbouring a desire to know and embrace everything that surrounds him?

I love to ask people questions. I want to know everything about them, even things that may be seemingly socially inappropriate.

I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.

We don't want to make a mistake. Would you rather make the mistake and err on the side of caution or wait until something happens and then answer to the American people, why you didn't vet these people properly?

I do not approach my life tactfully at all, i'm incredibly impulsive and I am definitely an intense weirdo. I love living and I love people. They trip me out and I want to know more about them all the time. That isn't something I can turn off and on.

The people that always impress me are the ones that are curious about what they're going to do next.

The people we keep standing in the anteroom of our favor either start fermenting or turn sour.