Quotes About Discovery

I suspected you were tired of looking for things you should have found a long time ago. ~ Jared

Captain James Cook's ship, The Endeavour, hit a coral outcrop in the Great Barrier Reef in 1770. Cook and his crew camped in what is now called Cooktown for nearly two months while making repairs. Then they sailed south, where Cook claimed the east coast of Australia as British territory.

He had the strange sensation of not knowing who he was, of having traveled off the map of his own existence.

It was nearly sunset when, after passing through a thirty-mile stretch of olive groves, they crested a hill and began to descend toward the edge of the earth. That was how it looked to Andras, who had never before seen the sea. As they drew closer it became a vast plain of liquid metal, a superheated infinity of molten bronze.....They reached a stretch of sand just as the red lozenge of the sun dissolved into the horizon.

Doors are going to open-doors you can't even imagine exist.

Julia taught me what it takes to find your way in the world. It's not what I thought it was. I thought it wa all about-I don't know, confidence or will or luck. Those are all some good things to have, no question. But there's something else, somethng that these things grow out of. It's joy.

I didn't understand for a long time, but what attracted me to MtAoFC [Mastering the Art of French Cooking] was the deeply buried aroma of hope and discovery of fulfillment in it. I thought I was using the Book to learn to cook French food, but really I was learning to sniff out the secret doors of possibility.

How do you know I'm pregnant?" "It's amazing." He cracked his knuckles. "Children always take their own parents for idiots. They come in reeling drunk at 1 am, smelling of cherry brandy and cigarettes, and think the old man's a detective for finding out they weren't studying with a friend.

The more I work with birds, the more I believe in the undreamt, the things we are not given to know.

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

I have always thought that by observing things with a great deal of attention you eventually wrest some of their secrets from them, making them utter what they would most like to keep to themselves.

Anderswo, morgen, das sind für Sie immer noch magische Worte. Aber sie werden entdecken: anderswo, das ist hier, und morgen haben wir bereits.

My greatest discovery has been my love of boredom and to get fun out of it.

Don't you long for something different to happen, something so exciting and new it carries you along with it like a great tide, something that lets your life blaze and burn so the whole world can see it?

que no había más que fijarse un poco, sentirse un poco, callarse un poco, para descubrir los agujeros.

Lo verdaderamente nuevo da miedo o maravilla.

hay enormes zonas a las que no he llegado nunca, y lo que no se ha conocido es lo que no se es.

Umblam fara sa ne cautam, dar stiind ca umblam ca sa ne gasim.

hija, hasta entonces inadvertidos, pasaron

hija, hasta entonces inadvertidos

Cuando abra la puerta y me asome a la escalera, sabré que abajo empieza la calle; no el molde ya aceptado, no las casas ya sabidas, no el hotel de enfrente: la calle, la viva magnolia, donde las caras van a nacer cuando las mire, cuando avance un poco más, cuando con los codos y las pestañas y las uñas me rompa minuciosamente contra la pasta del ladrillo de cristal, y juegue mi vida mientras avanzo paso a paso para ir a comprar el diario de la esquina

Probablemente la única áncora de salvación sea la ciencia, el uranio 235, esas cosas. Pero además hay que vivir.

I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a person was hard to find; but I soon discovered cats, in which I could imagine a condition like mine, and books, where I found it quite often.

Andábamos sin buscarnos, pero sabiendo que andábamos para encontrarnos