Quotes About Discovery

Right about when I turned 13, I realized that women could be jockeys, from my travels to the racetrack with my dad.

The sources of inspiration from my travels have been unending.

I've been influenced by my travels across India and the globe.

'Xyle XY' follows this boy who is like a newborn to the world - everything he sees and experiences is for the first time. He travels into the city and ends up getting put up by this foster family.

My best sources are my travels and my collection of National Geographic.

For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination.

Most people prepare for travels by reading about their destination; it always seemed an odd approach to me. I find it much easier and more pleasant to focus with the sights and smells of a place rattling around in my mind.

It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place.

I like picking up accessories as and when I see something I like - whether its from my travels on the streets of a foreign country or more mainstream labels like Accessorize.

Since I am a big foodie, trying out different places to eat is the most exciting part of my travels.

I've tried to eat little shrubs before. We were on an unsupported 20-plus day traverse, following the migration of endangered antelope across the Chang Tang Plateau. We were like, 'Oh, this is what they ate; we should try it.'

At the age of 21, I had never even stepped on a treadmill.

Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway.

The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.

I love doing my 'Buried Treasure' show.

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

It says something very deep about humans and our society, something very good about us, that we've invested our time and treasure in building a machine that can fly across three billion miles of space to explore the Pluto system.

Make your refrigerator or freezer like a treasure chest.

It is not a Pandora's box that science opens; it is, rather, a treasure chest. We, humanity, can choose whether or not to take out the discoveries and use them, and for what purpose.

I remember going with my mom to a random garage sale as a kid and thinking what a cool treasure hunt that whole world was. Only to transition as an adult to think, 'What a gross place that really is.'

This idea of, there's a locked door; how do you open it? You don't necessarily care what's behind it; you're just more excited about opening the lock... It's not about finding the treasure; it's more about defeating the puzzle.

The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.

Music is a treasure hunt. You dig and dig, and sometimes you find something.

And every now and then people find the bugs, and they interpret those as cool failures in the Sims terms. For them it's like a treasure hunt, you know.