Quotes About Discovery

I never had confidence - never. The hardest thing to know is your own worth, and it took me years and years to find out what mine is.

Theorists have wonderful ideas which take years and years to be verified.

'99.9%' is the end product of years and years of me going through multiple styles and interests.

If an artist doesn't have anything to say, he'll be quiet. Or he'll yell into the darkness until he finds something and hears something back.

I found my sound through exploring. I was in the studio yelling, going low, trying things, and that's how I found that I have a lot of sounds.

I followed a girl I met in Japan to Los Angeles and ended up working in a motorcycle store. I quit the job one night, went to a party in the Hollywood Hills and ended up yelling at a bunch of people. Someone saw me yelling and asked me to be in a play. The first night, there was an agent in the audience who took me on and sent me out for jobs.

The way to Everest is not a Yellow Brick Road.

I've been to the Titanic in a yellow submarine and the North Pole in a Russian nuclear ice breaker.

Follow the yellow brick road.

I started doing a half-hour Sunday night talk show on college radio station KUNV. That excited me more than anything I'd ever done. I went through the Yellow Pages to find people who seemed interesting. I'd goof on these people, but they were so excited to be on the radio that they didn't even notice.

The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.

Be like Curious George, start with a question and look under the yellow hat to find what's there.

My dad's one true quest in life was for the Platonic ideal of peanut butter. And I remember one day he announced, with a look of utter transfiguration on his face, that he had found paradise on Earth in a jar with a yellow cap. And it was called Red Wing.

I'd like to see more of Colorado, Utah, and maybe go to Yellowstone. Oh, and I'd like to kayak down the Colorado through the Grand Canyon.

Yes, but with the Cube there are many flashes, there are many aha's.

As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do that then and then I could do that and that... That may be the hardest thing for a writer, at least for a poet, to tell what the identity of his work is.

It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different.

At my first library job, I worked with a woman named Sheila Brownstein, who was The Reader's Advisor. She was a short, bosomy Englishwoman who accosted people at the shelves and asked if they wanted advice on what to read, and if the answer was yes, she asked what writers they already loved and then suggested somebody new.

I went up a straight crooked lane and, I said 'No thanks, yes if yer please.

It's so important as a creative person to go out and look for things. Go to galleries, talk to people, read books. Yes, you can just type something into Google, but if you read and interact, you'll have a deeper understanding of the world.

I might not know who I was yesterday or who I'm going to be tomorrow, but I know who I am right now.

Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions.

Yesterday, we sought telescopes good enough to see all the planets. Today, we seek vehicles good enough to reach them.

The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different.