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Quotes About Search

The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are?
~ Anne Rice
An armchair Jungian would say the whole thing is about my own ongoing spiritual search. My interior life has always been one of trying to find a spiritual link, maybe because I'm from a family of separate religious philosophies: Protestant and Catholic.
~ David Bowie
Outlook 2003 did create the idea of search folders and the whole Longhorn philosophy. You can see it at work in search folders, where instead of having to drop things into individual folders, and things exist only in one folder, you create these search folders and you have the criteria for the search folder.
~ Bill Gates
I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith.
~ Garth Ennis
I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.
~ Carl Jung
Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.
~ John Denham
When I climb into my car, I enter my destination into a GPS device, whose spatial memory supplants my own. I have photographs to store the images I want to remember, books to store knowledge and now, thanks to Google, I rarely have to remember anything more than the right set of search terms to access humankind's collective memory.
~ Joshua Foer
It is seldom right to say that anything is true 'according to Google.' Google is the oracle of redirection. Go there for 'hamadryad,' and it points you to Wikipedia. Or the Free Online Dictionary. Or the Official Hamadryad Web Site (it's a rock band, too, wouldn't you know).
~ James Gleick
This means that the search for a formula of European cooperation in connection with the League of Nations, far from weakening the authority of this latter must and can only tend to strengthen it, for it is closely connected with its aims.
~ Aristide Briand
It annoys me when contemporary films and television shows create artificial tensions that could easily be resolved by a quick email or the use of a search engine. 'La La Land' was guilty of this several times, as well as a more generalised aesthetic nostalgia.
~ Sally Rooney
Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Terrorism as a force is gone. As individuals they are all around and we will continue to look for them.
~ Hamid Karzai
For me, it's a purity thing about the joke itself. It's a test of a joke whether or not you do it completely clean and it works. If it does, then that's a legitimate item you have there. For me, it's nothing to do with finding those words offensive. It's just not what I'm in search of. Do it clean, and you are really earning that laugh.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
He could probably have persuaded even Cerberus to leave his post and go off in search of a few dog biscuits.
~ Robert Rankin
Every search for a hero must begin with something which every hero requires - a villain.
~ Robert Towne
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us." —ADLAI STEVENSON (1952)
~ Robert Whitaker
No tienes que buscar el amor; tan solo has de buscar y encontrar todas las barreras internas que has erigido para ocultarlo».
~ Robert Wright
I try to find the books that I lost or forgot more than 30 years ago on another continent, with the hope and dedication and bitterness of those who search for their first lost books, books that if found I wouldn't read anyway, because I've already read them over and over, but that I would look at and touch just as the miser strokes the coins under which he's buried...Books are like ghosts
~ Roberto Bolano
You have to change. You have to turn yourself around and change. You have to know how to look even if you don't know what you're looking for.
~ Roberto Bolano
Toda la casa, durante mis incursiones en busca de la caja fuerte, parecía viva. Viva en la dejadez, viva en el abandono. Pero viva.
~ Roberto Bolano
Hemos encontrado a Cesárea Tinajero.
~ Roberto Bolano
The Family Tree Guide to DNA Testing and Genetic Genealogy by Blaine Bettinger. The other one, which will be more helpful for our search, is The Adoptee's Guide to DNA Testing
~ Robin Cook
Der ungenannte Wunsch, von Leben und Land nie erfüllt, jetzt Reisender, segle vorwärts, zu suchen und zu finden.
~ Robin Gold
The path will find you," he assured me, and smiled. "In darkness it cannot hide itself." p. 467 Prilkop to Fitz
~ Robin Hobb