"People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle."

-- Leo Rosten

#People Quotes #Curiosity Quotes #Idle Quotes

“I don't have any friends from my childhood because I didn't stay at one school for very long.”
“God isn't dead--he's just missing in action.”
“The revolting details of childbirth had been hidden from me with such care that I was as surprised as I was horrified, and I cannot help thinking that the vows most women are made to take are very foolhardy. I doubt whether they would willingly go to the altar to swear that they will allow themselves to be broken on the wheel every nine months.”
“I am the biggest Destiny's Child - Beyonce, Kelly, Michelle, all of them - fan in the world.”
“I just think I'm better equipped to make a study of human personality than trying to get into the mind of animals.”
“Success is how you collect your minutes. You spend millions of minutes to reach one triumph, one moment, then you spend maybe a thousand minutes enjoying it. If you were unhappy through those millions of minutes, what good is the thousand minutes of triumph? It doesn't equate... Life is made of small pleasures. Good eye contact over the breakfast table with your wife. A moment of touching a friend. Happiness is made of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. If you don't have all those zillions of tiny successes, the big ones don't mean anything.”
“My fishing hole is deader than...a dead thing that's dead.”
“Conviction is not repentance; conviction leads to repentance. But you can be convicted without repentance.”

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