Quotes About Discovery

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey.

As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

I don't think I found my voice until I reached New York. I suppose it's possible I would have had some kind of different literary career if I had not discovered New York.

No one in my family wrote. And there was no real introduction. I suppose I somehow blundered into it when I was about six or seven years old. I was asked what present I would like, and, without knowing why, I responded that I would like a journal. It was a beautiful journal - so beautiful that I didn't want to sully it.

I've always figured the only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer and longer until something happens - you know, until it finds its own plot - because you can't outline and then fit the thing into it. I suppose it's a slow way of working.

I suppose, because I've been able to make a very good living writing books, that going out and finding another million dollars under the sea is not the fascination. The fascination is in finding the ship.

A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn't supposed to be possible.

What happen to the pirates we are supposed to see? Then we go down the chutes, and it's where the pirates were. But they're all gone. There is nothing but skeletons down here!

For a while now I've had this feeling that there's something that I'm supposed to be doing or something that I'm supposed to contribute. I don't know what that is yet, but it's been plaguing me - like I've missed my calling somehow.

There are no road signs to help navigate. And, in fact, no one has yet determined which side of the road we're supposed to be on.

Then, you were supposed to discover the city, where they were. But because somebody like skeletons. And that they discovered that they were at a cheap price, we used too many skeletons all over the place, and the public got the wrong message.

Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind. I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing.

Everything that's supposedly caused by stress, I tell people there's a Nobel Prize there if you find out the real cause.

In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.

I got into film school. I went and didn't know anything about it. Over the course of two years, I kind of got kind of good at it. You know, I had a brief moment where I wasn't sure if I could do it. I didn't know you needed light to expose film.

I didn't know a single person who had ever been there. I wasn't even sure how to spell Chechnya.

I searched the good music that I loved and found out that was all by Miguel! What a strange coincidence! I'm a massive fan of 'Sure Thing' by Miguel.

Men know not the gold which lies in the mine of Christ Jesus, or surely they would dig in it night and day. They have not yet discovered the pearl of great price, or they would have sold their all to buy the field wherein it lies.

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.

My most fertile reading time is when I have just finished a project and haven't started another. I binge-read and surf around bookstores.

I thought I would come to Australia and learn to surf. Instead, I learned to walk.

We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.

Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them; they're not just lying around on the surface.