Quotes About Discovery

to the GPS system. It greeted her in French.

How do you know that?" "I read a brochure. Someone dropped off a whole folder filled with brochures on the various town festivals. Some of them look fun.

You think you have a view of what's waiting for you just up the road, but then something happens, and you find out pretty quick you were looking at the wrong road.

She will wake up one morning, or look up one evening at a sunset or a tree, and know that she loves him. This is my hope for her: that she will find her love has grown in secret, as a plant grows underground before it flowers. And one does not poke at the plant before it lifts its head from the soil; one lets it be.

For many listeners, the exciting new music we discovered when we were young becomes the reliable playlist we stick with in middle age.

To travel is to shop.

Regenerative experiences: Plunge into the sea. The sun. An old city. Silence.

Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described.

I discovered a lot of writers in the Modern Library editions, which were sold in a Hallmark-card store, and I used to save up my allowance and would buy them all. I even bought real lemons like Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations [laughing]. I thought everything in the Modern Library must be great.

In one of its aspects, art is a technique for focusing attention, for teaching skills of attention. The history of the arts is tantamount to the discovery & formulation of a repertory of objects on which to lavish attention. (Oscar Wilde pointed out that people didn't see fogs before certain nineteenth-century poets & painters taught them how to; & surely, no one saw as much of the variety & subtlety of the human face before the era of the movies.)

The voice of a person thinking, discovering, revising, is ever-present without any loss in grace or ease.

Find some beauty along the way.

Should I explain to him Galileo's discovery that we are not what we thought—that our lives are made smaller by the unimportance of our dwelling place on the periphery, like a touch of color at the edge of a painting, contributing to the whole but unnoticed by most?

Lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to the truth. —Fyodor Dostoevsky

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

Ever since she was small, she'd found delight and comfort in books. For her, a story was so much more than words on a page. Opening a book was like opening a door to another world, and once she stepped across the threshold, she was transported. When she was reading a story, she lived inside a different skin.

On Sunday, something washed up on shore.

Sometimes life shoves you off into the unknown, and it turns out to be amazing.

Memories are like a series of locked doors, and once you manage to get one open, it leads to another, and then another and so on. The hard part is finding the key to that first lock and getting through it.

I'm glad i found photography. It's a way to connect with the world.

How would you live your life differently if you could start over, what would you do, who would you be, where would you go, what would you embrace?

As the saying goes, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Sometimes you have to let the right book find you

Opening a book was like opening a door to another world, and once she stepped across the threshold, she was transported. When she was reading a story, she lived inside a different skin. She