Quotes About Discovery

Como si un día, de pronto, las gentes hubieran levantado sus cabezas de la tierra, después de tantos siglos, y hubieran descubierto la miseria en que vivían y la posibilidad de remediarla en otra parte. Nadie volvió jamás. Nadie volvió siquiera para llevarse algunas de las cosas que aquí se habían dejado. Y, así, poco a poco, igual que muchos pueblos del contorno, Ainielle fue quedándose vacío, solitario y vacío para siempre.

Prefiero no defraudarlo y dejar que descubra por sí mismo la vacuidad de las ilusiones que perseguimos desde que nacemos, que tropiece como yo en cada peldaño de la escalera que recorremos en el camino a ninguna parte que es la existencia.

Pero más puede la curiosidad que el castigo

the object of learning was not to build a better mousetrap but to ask a better question.

The quality that we call beauty, however, must always grow from the realities of life, and our ancestors, forced to live in dark rooms, presently came to discover beauty in shadows, ultimately to guide shadows towards beauty's ends.

Is it sufficient that you have learned to drive the car, or shall we look and see what is under the hood? Most people go through life without ever knowing.

Thank God I arrived the day before yesterday, the first of the month, at this port of San Diego, truly a fine one, and not without reason called famous.

You need to learn how to walk the world, he told me. There's a lot out there.

I know what it means to be moved by a book in my body so much that I go looking for its analog in the real world. [From an interview with Complex magazine, 12/2012]

If this was another kind of story, I'd tell you about the sea

He read The Lord of the Rings for what I'm estimating the millionth time, one of his greatest loves and greatest comforts since he'd first discovered it, back when he was nine and lost and lonely and his favorite librarian had said, Here, try this, and with one suggestion changed his life. Got through almost the whole trilogy, but then the line "and out of Far Harad black men like half-trolls" and he had to stop, his head and heart hurting too much.

So this is what everybody's always talking about! Diablo! If only I'd known. The beauty! The beauty!

I had expected a different father, one about seven feet tall with enough money to buy our entire barrio, but this one was average height, with an average face.

One Ring. Like stumbling into

He read The Lord of the Rings for what I'm estimating the millionth time, one of his greatest loves and greatest comforts since he'd first discovered it, back when he was nine and lost and lonely and his favorite librarian had said, Here, try this, and with one suggestion changed his life. Got through almost the whole trilogy, but then the line "and out of Far Harad black men like half-trolls" and he had to stop, his head and heart hurting too much.

I'll give you what I've managed to unearth and the rest will have to wait for the day the páginas en blanco finally speak.

Why can't we find what we are looking for?" the answer is that we DO find what we are looking for, but what we are looking for is not what we really want. What we are looking for is things that remind us of the god of our childhood, but this god was not an accurate guide to the virtues and sensations that we really want.

We're trying to set up a movie for me in the near future. It's going to be similar to the story of how I got discovered. Kinda like my own version of '8 Mile.'

Don't say I'm not talented. If you haven't noticed, I wasn't made — I was found.

miles away from everthing and everyone I've ever known or loved. I feel as if I've entered a new era of my life. What strange places our lives carry us to...

One day you have Einstein, puzzling over the theory of relativity, the next you've got the Manhattan Project and a big hole in the ground.

Lacey, you don't understand." He felt weightless, benumbed. He had nothing to fight with, not even a blade. "We're totally unarmed. I've seen what he can do." "There are weapons more powerful than guns and knives," the woman replied. Her face held no fear, only a sense of purpose. "It is time for you to see it." "See what?" "What you came to find," said Lacey. "The Passage.

God invented Iowa, he always said, so people could leave it and never come back.

It was true, what they said about the stars. The more you looked, the more you saw.