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Quotes About Searching

Perhaps I have reason to believe that I had somewhere else to be.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
It is an age of exhausted whoredom groping for its god.
~ James Joyce
Hello, Max, he said quietly, searching my face. How do you feel? Which was a ten on the imbecilic question scale of one to ten. Why, I feel fine, Jeb, I said brightly. How about you? Any nausea? Headache? Yep. And it's standing here talking to me.
~ James Patterson
Cinder app, flipping left and right, looking for hot Gunkledunk dates.
~ James Patterson
ways of scanning for radio signals." She followed him as he ran into the gun room and spun
~ James Patterson
The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief.
~ Michael Crichton
Some men are searching for the Holy Grail, but there ain't nothing sweeter than riding the rail. Pregnant women and Vietnam vets, beggin on the freeway, bout as hard as it gets.
~ Tom Waits
I've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing.
~ Juliana Hatfield
There's a whole stereotype of the jazz musician that's into poetry and reading and metaphysics and all that stuff. Really, it's a sign of someone who's searching, whose mind is open, looking for answers. Whatever ideas you may come up with, the beautiful thing is the search.
~ Kamasi Washington
when they gazed at the sea, people held their heads up, and their faces became curious and open, as if they were searching for something that linked them to the sun and the stars, looking for that something they knew would linger long after the wind had erased their footprints in the dust.
~ Thrity Umrigar
Jenna," he started, "my life is so up in the air. I have nowhere
~ Tia Williams
Certainly, I read a lot and follow the news. But as a writer, I am not interested in a political story. I am searching for the humanity of the characters. I never set out to write a book about an 'issue.'
~ Cristina Henriquez
I am always looking for material - whether for my notebooks or for Twitter or Instagram - which means I'm looking for meaning.
~ John Dickerson
I had no clue what I wanted to do. I tried nursing, I tried science, I tried English. I just kept bouncing back and forth.
~ Anna Todd
As a documentary filmmaker, 'Meru' was an irresistible challenge. You can spend years searching for the right story, but this one had all the elements: the obstacles, the characters, and the drama.
~ Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
O]nly the sea is like a human being . . .always moving, always something deep in itself is stirring it. It never rests; it is always wanting, wanting, wanting. It hurries on; and then it creeps back slowly without having reached, moaning. It is always asking a question and it never gets the answer.
~ Olive Schreiner
And before long, the music, the views rushing past the window, my fathers voice and the narrow cobblestone streets all merged into one, and it seemed to me that while we would never find answers to these fundamental questions, it was good for us to ask them anyway.
~ Orhan Pamuk
The essential reason for my loneliness is that I don't even know where I belong.
~ Orhan Pamuk
pag. 74 I am a tree The essential reason for my loneliness is that I don't even know where I belong. I was supposed to be part of a story, but I fell from there like a leaf in autumn.
~ Orhan Pamuk
I znaj ovo: oni koji traže samo sre?u, nikada je ne na?u!
~ Orhan Pamuk
Maybe I will do what I want with my life! The only problem is that I have no idea what I want to do with it.
~ Orson Scott Card
I want to go home, thought Ender, but I don't know where it is.
~ Orson Scott Card
don't even know why I do what I do. How can I know what other people's true purposes are? There's no hope
~ Orson Scott Card
If you knew there was somebody out there afoot that had two million dollars of your money, at what point would you quit lookin for em? That's right. There aint no such a point.
~ Cormac McCarthy