Quotes About Discovery

In this Internet age of shared information, even if you don't tell the people, they will find out.

As I've gone along, I felt like I was discovering an aspect of my voice that I didn't know was there: an ability to interpret a song in a way that makes it more accessible.

We always try to leave room for the actors to come in and make discoveries on set, in their interpretation of the scene. The shot list is scaffolding.

We await the successsive births in the soul of the child. We give all possible material, that nothing may lack to the groping soul, and then we watch for the perfect faculty to come, safeguarding the child from interruption so that it may carry its efforts through.

There is usually a long interval between important scientific discoveries and impact on human health.

When girls can be honest with each other, they can make mistakes on their own terms and discover through experience - and not through knee-jerk adult intervention - what a healthy friendship should look like.

The interview with Busted changed everything - it was just so funny, and we were all on set and they couldn't stop laughing. And I remember thinking, 'We're onto something.'

I love interviewing people and getting them to talk about things they've never talk about.

Being places alone makes you think. Being there with someone makes you hounded by details, like what time the other person wants to leave; details that drain energy when you are trying to discover the core of an event. Being there with William put a damper on glorious possibilities. But I'd given up on those, which was why, I suppose, I went so many places with William.

You can't write a story about L.A. that doesn't turn around in the middle or get lost

I'm always amazed at how books find us at the time we need them, as if there's some omniscient, benevolent librarian in the sky.

You will touch this joy and you will suddenly know it is what you were looking for your whole life, but you were afraid to even acknowledge the absence because the hunger for it was so encompassing.

I have always been obsessed with naming things. If I could name them, I could know them. If I could name them, I could tame them. They could be my friends.

It became a kind of passion. Discovering the key, unlocking the vagina's mouth, unlocking this voice, this wild song.

Quando você rompe o silêncio, descobre quantas outras pessoas viviam esperando uma permissão para fazer o mesmo.

Twelve years old. I was happy. My friend had a Ouija board, asked when we were going to get our periods, looked down, and I saw blood.

I listen to every thing, all kinds of stuff. I've been obsessed with the Nas and Damian Marley record, 'Distant Relatives.' I feel like a lot of people haven't heard it, and it's amazing.

I walk into a kids' store, and it's amazing, the types of instruments - little squeaky things, rattling things, spinning tops.

Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience.

He goes because he must, as Galahad went towards the Grail: knowing that for those who can live it, this alone is life.

Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.

But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiosity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city.

Then one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.

To know that we don't know, yet to keep practicing, is the way we learn to go deeper.