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Quotes About Discovery

Sometimes the things you really want sneak in the back door. Notice.
~ Mary Anne Radmacher
It's like if you're an astronaut and you've been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?
~ Paul McCartney
Sometimes you have to show them what they want to see in order to get them to show you who they really are.
~ Pearl Cleage
Everything has an educational value if you look for it. But it's the fun I want to get across.
~ Richard Scarry
All writers should strive to deliver something fresh-something editors or readers won't know they want until they see it.
~ William Zinsser
When you're young, whatever you do that makes you stand out is a frightening thing. You learn later that that's what you want to do, stand out.
~ Gabriella Wilde
No one has ever described the place where I have just arrived: this is the emotion that makes me want to travel. It is one of the greatest reasons to go anywhere.
~ Paul Theroux
When you are clear about what you want to learn, you will find your teacher. The teacher is already there. The two of you will meet because you are looking for each other.
~ W.A. Mathieu
I wake up thinking: What am I reading? What will I read next? I'm terrified that I'll run out, that I will read through all I want to, and be forced to learn wildflowers at last, to keep awake.
~ Annie Dillard
Man by nature wants to know.
~ Aristotle
Girl I know it's real cause I've been around it. You only want what's real you just never found it
~ Drake
Why I wake up in the morning is that I'm still alive, and I want to figure out whatever I can before it's over.
~ Gary Kraftsow
Just start writing and you'll find what you want to say.
~ Kurt Braunohler
I went through about six or seven painting methods just to see what I didn't want to do. And then I got off the wall, and went into the environment.
~ Agnes Denes
One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, "The Sea Gull," when was 14 in the Bronx.
~ Al Pacino
A man of science doesn't discover in order to know, he wants to know in order to discover.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Do not know yourself. I want to continue to surprise me.
~ Arielle Dombasle
I'm lucky I had parents willing to be open and believe that an 11-year-old might know what she wanted to do. Or maybe they thought I'd find out that's what I didn't want to do.
~ Claire Forlani
The world is full of places to which I want to return
~ Ford Madox Ford
I might write four lines or I might write twenty. I subtract and I add until I really hit something I want to do. You don't always whittle down, sometimes you whittle up.
~ Grace Paley
I wasn't one of those people who went to see a play and said, 'I want to be an actor.' I fell into it.
~ Henry Czerny
I'm always interested in finding the new trend. If you love pizza every day, after 22 years of eating pizza, you want to try sushi.
~ Jean Pigozzi
I have a terrible wanderthirst; the very sight of a map makes me want to put on my hat and take an umbrella and start. I shall see before I die the palms and temples of the South.
~ Jean Webster
It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
~ Jules Verne