He stifled the urge to look around. Korodore has schooled him unmercifully in assassination drill. Know who was your assassin was small reward for being assassinated. Korodore said, ‘The price of curiosity is a terminal experience.’ (DSS)
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'The young man is also an idealist. He has yet to find out that what's in the public interest is not what the public is interested in.' (TT)
... a witch always listens to other people's conversations. (WFM)
'Don't do anything I wouldn't do, if you ever find anything I wouldn't do.' (CJ)
'I want to know why. Why everything. I don't know the answers, but a few days ago I didn't know there were questions.' (N)
... meddle first, understand later. You had to meddle a bit before you had anything to try to understand. And the thing was never, ever to go back and hide in the Lavatory of Unreason. You have to try to get your mind around the Universe before you give it a twist. (IT)
‘Don’t stick your nose in where someone can pull it off and eat it.’ (MA)
‘When you’ve got ‘em by the curiosity, their hearts and minds will follow.’ (SG)
Why were elderly witches so nosy? But then she thought: Actually, all witches are nosy. It’s part of what being a witch is. And she relaxed. (SC)
That’s old Twoflower. Rincewind thought. It’s not that he doesn’t appreciate beauty, he just appreciates it in his own way. I mean, if a poet sees a daffodil he stares at it and writes a long poem about it, but Twoflower wanders off to find a book on botany. And treads on it. It’s right what Cohen says. He just looks at things, but nothing he looks at is ever the same again. Including me, I suspect. (LF)
'Coppers are never nosy, Mister Likely. However, sometimes we ask tangential questions'. (UA)
old women like to know everything, or a little bit more. (W)
... she believed in encouraging logical thought and a healthy enquiring mind among the nascent young women in her care, a course of action which is, as far as wisdom is concerned, on a par with going alligator-hunting in a cardboard boat during the sinking season. (SM)
Hexperiment: to use magic just to see what happens. (W)
'Let me through. I’m a nosy person ...' (Ma)
The most dangerous man in the world should be introduced.
He has never, in his entire life, harmed a living creature. He has dissected a few, but only after they were dead, and had marvelled at how well they’d been put together considering it had been done by unskilled labour. For several years he hadn’t moved outside a large, airy room, but this was OK, because he spent most of his time inside his own head in any case. There’s a certain type of person it’s very hard to imprison. (MA) Albert grunted. ‘Do you know what happens to lads who ask too many questions?’
Mort thought for a moment. ‘No,’ he said eventually, ‘what?’ There was silence. Then Albert straightened up and said, ‘Damned if I know. Probably they get answers, and serve ‘em right.' (M) 'No one would be that stu-’
Susan stopped. Of course someone would be that stupid. Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying ‘End-of-the-World-Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH’, the paint wouldn’t even have time to dry. (TOT) 'Ach, people’re always telling us no’ tae do things,’said Rob Anybody. ‘That’s how we ken what’s the most interestin’ things tae do!' (W)
They were, after all, wizards. That meant that if they saw something, they prodded it. If it wobbled they prodded it some more. If you built a guillotine, and then put a sign on it saying ‘Do Not Put Your Neck On This Block’, many wizards would never have to buy a hat again. (SODW)
Any true wizard, faced with a sign like ‘Do not open this door. Really. We mean it. We’re not kidding. Opening
the door will mean the end of the universe,’ would automatically open the door in order to see what all the fuss was about. (LC) Nanny Ogg would try anything once. Some things she’d try several thousand times. (WA)
In some parts of the city curiosity didn’t just kill the cat, it threw it in the river with lead weights tied to its feet. (S)
She had found them lodgings in The Shades, an ancient part of the city whose inhabitants were largely nocturnal and never inquired about one another’s business because curiosity not only killed the cat but threw it in the river with weights tied to its feet. (ER)
'We are supposed to develop questioning minds, you know,’ someone muttered.
‘Yes, but not regarding university policy!’ said Ridcully. (DW) |
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