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Quotes About Curiosity

Pilot had never seen this particular ghost before. Head resting on paws, he mildly wondered what it was doing here. Dogs see ghosts about as often as people see cats. They're there but they're no big deal.
~ Jonathan Carroll
C' erano poche cose altrettanto intime per lei che curiosare insiemeba qualcuno tra i libri
~ Jonathan Coe
Don't you know what a pussy is, sir?' 'Of course he doesn't. He hasn't even seen Basic Instinct.
~ Jonathan Coe
One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.
~ Jonathan Edwards
My first hero was Thomas Edison, whose adult life had consisted entirely of free time.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Qué hermosa es siempre la cara que no hemos visto.
~ Jonathan Franzen
what do you do all day?" "Actually, FYI," his mother said, "that can be a somewhat awkward question to ask a person.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Dogs again had it right. They didn't trouble themselves with mysteries that could never be solved anyway.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Sex with a squirrel who had exciting breasts beneath her little-kid pajamas was not without its appeal
~ Jonathan Franzen
When he happened to look at Marion directly, it was often to ask, "Where's your sister?
~ Jonathan Franzen
with nothing left to relish or discover, he just might die of boredom. Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Science is a smorgasbord, and google will guide you to the study that's right for you.
~ Jonathan Haidt
Sometimes it's better not to think in questions, but I can't seem to get out of the habit.
~ Jonathan Lethem
This one looks good," said Chong over breakfast the next morning. Benny read out loud from the paper. "'Pit Thrower.' What's that?" "I don't know," Chong said with a mouth full of toast. "I think it has something to do with barbecuing." It didn't.
~ Jonathan Maberry
Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
It was the first time I had ever made love. I wondered if he knew that. It felt like crying. I wondered, Why does anyone ever make love?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
It was getting hard to keep all the things I didn't know inside me.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
This is the sixty-nine, I told him, presenting the magazine in front of him. I put my fingers -- two of them -- on the action, so that he would not overlook it. Why is it dubbed sixty-nine? he asked, because he is a person hot on fire with curiosity. It was invented in 1969. My friend Gregory knows a friend of the nephew of the inventor. What did people do before 1969? Merely blowjobs and masticating box, but never in chorus.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
What if I never stop inventing?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
I flipped back through the pad of paper while I thought about what Stephen Hawking would do next.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
I know a lot about birds and bees, but I don't know very much about the birds and the bees. Everything I do know I had to teach myself on the Internet, because I don't have anyone to ask. For example, I know that you give someone a blowjob by putting your penis in their mouth.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Because it was starting to get dark, and because the streets were crowded, I bumped into a googolplex people. Who were they? Where were they going? What were they looking for? I wanted to hear their heartbeats, and I wanted them to hear mine.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer