Josh Brolin Quotes

I'm naturally attracted to something I don't understand because when you try to deal with something you don't understand, it opens a door into another world.

I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.

If you look at a magazine and something catches your eye, are you not going to open it up to see what's inside?

Things that are unknown attract us.

What you know is always a little less attractive to you than what you don't know.

I think for me I'm always... I find myself to be a very curious person when something interests me and I find that I'm attracted to that mystery.

But in my defense, I knew enough about her to know I wanted to know everything else; I knew as much about her as she wanted me to know; I knew as much about her as anyone ever knows about anyone. And isn't love just curiosity at the beginning anyway?

Nothing attracts me like a closed door. I cannot let my camera rest until I have pried it open.

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.

Fascination is one step beyond interest. Interested people want to know if it works. Fascinated people want to learn how it works.

Curiosity is one of the many masks of love.

A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should be her aim - to create suspense, to let a man discover things about her without her having to tell him.

Style means you have a real curiosity about yourself and then you express it. Having style is not copying somebody else.

You may be a puzzle, but I like the way the parts fit.

Our instinct may be to see the impossibility of tracking everything down as frustrating, dispiriting, perhaps even appalling, but it can just as well be viewed as almost unbearably exciting. We live on a planet that has a more or less infinite capacity to surprise. What reasoning person could possibly want it any other way?

Life may more than once call upon you to prove Who You Are by demonstrating an aspect of Who You Are Not.

Mix a little mystery with everything, for mystery arouses veneration.

It's fun to discover things. I wouldn't want everything laid out, simply and too obviously.

The job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.

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

The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.

The person you have known a long tme is embedded in you like a jewel. The person you have just met casts out a few glistening beams & you are fascinated to see more of them. How many more are there? With someone you've barely met the curiosity is intoxicating.

The First Book: Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable, really. You see, it keeps on opening. You may fall in. Sure, it's hard to get started; remember learning to use knife and fork? Dig in: you'll never reach bottom. It's not like it's the end of the world -- just the world as you think you know it.

An answer, once found, is dull; and the only remaining interest lies in a further effort to render equally dull what is still obscure enough to be intriguing.