Quotes About Discovery

With seven boys and one sister, there was always a lot of music in the house. A few of my brothers were playing instruments, so it was from hearing that, coupled with discovering early rock, which triggered me to pick up a guitar and try to pick out the notes.

My first beauty moment was when I was probably four years old. My sister and I snuck into my mom's room and got into her makeup. We put on blush and lipstick and eyeshadow. I will always remember that day.

I had this sister that was born who was given up for adoption, and I never knew it.

I was 26 years old when I found out that I had a sister who I never knew existed.

My parents were mourning the death of my sister. She was killed in a car accident before I was born, and I didn't know she existed until I was 13 or 14 years old. I knew I was growing up in a house where people were angry and sad.

The first time I ever acted was in 'The Glass Menagerie' in high school, and my first line was, 'I didn't know Shakespeare had a sister.'

Before I thought there was a common denominator between my films - as if all my characters were sisters - but I'm not so sure now.

Growing up, I was listening to Scissor Sisters.

Cell culture is a little like gardening. You sit and you look at cells, and then you see something and say, 'You know, that doesn't look right'.

Air America Radio was thinking of hiring me, but they discovered something in my past that didn't sit well with them: radio experience.

My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom.

Haunted since the day its discovery was projected all over the world in 1994, I, like many others, have always wanted to see inside the Chauvet cave, site of the world's earliest known cave art. Quite rightly, we will never go. It is closed to the public.

The SS Sapona shipwreck, is such a cool site.

What satellites help to show us is we've actually only found a fraction of a percent of ancient settlements and sites all over the world... It's the most exciting time in history to be an archaeologist.

I don't often go to a place just to check out all the cultural sites of a city.

For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.

Archaeologists have used aerial photographs to map archaeological sites since the 1920s, while the use of infrared photography started in the 1960s, and satellite imagery was first used in the 1970s.

I'm interested in sites that help people find information and filter what's available. The Internet is so big that no one can stay on top of everything.

The most exciting part of what I do is understanding the scale of what we don't know. There are just countless archaeological sites all over the world, and one of the most important and best ways of finding them is using digital technology.

That's what I want to do, ultimately: figure out a way to get the world engaged with discovery and protecting these ancient sites.

Seeing sites and features in places where we never looked or never thought things might exist is causing archaeologists across the world to think deeper about their sites or entire cultures.

You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it.

I'm not a person for sitting on beaches. What would I do?

I love out-of-the-way, rugged places. For me, holidays are about the experiences, and the people, and the memories, rather than sitting on a nice beach getting tanned. I try to plant myself where I am and embrace what is there in front of me.