"Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein."

-- Zora Neale Hurston

#Secret Quotes #Curiosity Quotes #Wish Quotes

“My youth coach told me he'd got these two great 15-year-olds. I told him I don't want to know, because by the time they're 18 I'll be dead.”
“Being close ain't good enough.”
“What makes an actor, I think, is a combination of a deep curiosity about life and a case of the crazies.”
“People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh.”
“I was aware too how strange adults were, how theirs lives were vaster than they wanted anyone to realize, that they actually stretched on and on like deserts, dry and desolate, with an unpredictable, shifting sea of dunes.”

Source : Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.392, Penguin
“The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation.”

Source : "The Heretic's Handbook of Quotations: Cutting Comments on Burning Issues". Book by Chaz Bufe, p. 26, 1992.
“If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.”
“Intellect doesn't translate across cultures; intuition does.”

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