Quotes About Discovery

there are ways of doing things you dont't know about

She stepped aside to let him pass. She followed him to the car and watched him get laboriously into the front seat. As she welcomed him silently to the human race, the stab of discovery made her tremble a little. Somebody walked over my grave, she thought, probably Jem on some idiotic errand.

Time spent indoors was time wasted.

But I don't get the connection. Dr. Finch put his hands on the table. 'That's because you haven't looked,' he said. 'You've never opened your eyes.

With rough gentleness the big boys taught her to shoot craps and chew tobacco without losing it. The big girls giggled behind their hands most of the time and whispered among themselves a great deal, but Jean Louise considered them useful when choosing sides for a volleyball match. All in all, it was turning out to be a wonderful year.

Whatcha readin'?" I asked. Atticus turned the book over. "Something of Jem's. Called The Gray Ghost." I was suddenly awake. "Why'd you get that one?" "Honey, I don't know. Just picked it up. One of the few things I haven't read," he said pointedly. "Read

went to the back yard and found Jem plugging away at a tin can, which seemed stupid with all the bluejays around.

Dear goodness, the things you learned.

she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste.

He had to know who he'd be fighting if the time ever came to—he had to find out who they were. . . .

If everything turned out just the way everybody expected, life would be exceedingly dull, and learning in any useful sense simply would not occur.

If at the end of our time together you find yourself walking out with just what you walked in with, you will have wasted your time.

Like all of the other sciences, we have found out that the more we know, the more there is to know.

No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.

You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you.

But why should you be interested in me? Good question. I can't explain it myself right this moment. But maybe – just maybe – if we start getting together and talking, after a while something like Francis Lai's soundtrack music will start playing in the background, and a whole slew of concrete reasons why I'm interested in you will line up out of nowhere. With luck, it might even snow for us.

You might think you made a new world or a new self, but your old self is always gonna be there, just below the surface, and if something happens, it'll stick its head out and say 'Hi.' You don't seem to realize that. You were made somewhere else.

You know what I'd really like to do the most right now? Climb up to the top of some high place like the pyramids. The highest place I can find. Where you can see forever. Stand on the very top, look all around the world, see all the scenery, and see with my own eyes what's been lost from the world.

It doesn't matter how old I get, but as long as I continue to live I'll always discover something new about myself.

Any one who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It' like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time. It's just a natural feeling. You're not the person who discovered that feeling, so don't try to patent it, okay?

No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself. It's like your shadow. It follows you everywhere. -Komura

In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life.

If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.

Look deep enough into any person and you will find something shining within.