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Quotes About Curiosity

When I think of all the books I have yet to read, I am sure that I am still happy.
~ Jean Cocteau
Un beau livre, c'est celui qui sème à foison les points d'interrogation. »
~ Jean Cocteau
The amazing advance public attention to this film is surely due not so much to us (I mean to the curiosity our undertaking arouses) as to that Beauty and Beast we thrilled over as children. Happily, there is some remnant of childhood in this jaded public. It is this childhood we must reach. It is the incredulous reserve of the adults that we must overcome.
~ Jean Cocteau
I still can't believe that animals don't understand why delicious food is in such a ridiculous spot.
~ Jean Craighead George
Can s?k?c? bir budalal??? betimlemem gerekseydi, çocuklar?na din dersi veren bir bilgiçi betimlerdim. Bir çocuÄŸu deli yapmak isteseydim, onu öÄŸrendiÄŸi din bilgisini ezbere yineleyip anlat?rken, söylediklerini aç?klamak zorunda b?rak?rd?m.
~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
Impetuously, with the uninhibited reactions of a child, she reached out to touch his face, to see if the scar felt different.
~ Jean M. Auel
But even with that tremendous reservoir of information at her disposal, she had recently seen some vegetation that was completely unfamiliar, as unfamiliar as the countryside. She would have liked to
~ Jean M. Auel
were greeted warmly, but Ayla felt they were interrupting something. Everyone seemed to be looking at them, as though
~ Jean M. Auel
Life if curious when reduced to its essentials
~ Jean Rhys
I took the red dress down and put it against myself. 'Does it make me look intemperate and unchaste?' I said.
~ Jean Rhys
morbidly, attracted him to strangeness, to recklessnesss, even unhappiness.
~ Jean Rhys
But what if it were heaven when she got there?
~ Jean Rhys
Does the cosmos contain keys for opening my diving bell? A subway line with no terminus? A currency strong enough to buy my freedom back? We must keep looking.
~ Jean-Dominique Bauby
I loved college... I knew exactly why I was there and what I wanted to get out of it. I wished I could take every course in the curriculum and read every book in the library. Sometimes after I finished a particularly good book, I had the urge to get the library card, find our who else had read the book, and track them down to talk about it.
~ Unknown
Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?
~ Jeanette Winterson
The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.
~ Jeanette Winterson
The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home, like all the men who now live with mermaids at the bottom of the sea. Or the people who found Atlantis.
~ Jeanette Winterson
People say the magic has gone out of the moon now that someone's stood on it. I don't think so. It would take more than a man's foot to steal the moon.
~ Jeanette Winterson
The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home, like all the men who now live with mermaids at the bottom of the sea.
~ Jeanette Winterson
There's so little wonder left in the world because we've seen everything one way or another'.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late!
~ Jeanette Winterson
There is a thin line of me, wavering and not strong, that wants to learn the language of beasts and water and night.
~ Jeanette Winterson
History is a madman's museum.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I asked my mother why we couldn't have books and she said, 'The trouble with a book is that you never know what's in it until it's too late.' I thought to myself, 'Too late for what?
~ Jeanette Winterson