Quotes About Discovery

Pop's leg was across the room when I came downstairs.

Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down. —Charles F. Kettering businessman

The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive. At that time, we turn around and say, yes, this is obviously where I was going all along. It's a good idea to try to enjoy the scenery on the detours, because you'll probably take a few. —Bill Watterson cartoonist

Kathryn Reiss

Something odd was going on here. They were led through the dim hallway into a back bedroom, where they found a sight Casey would never forget.

Rick, this is Faith's father, David." He couldn't drag his eyes away from David's neck. Because around it was a white collar. Jesus Christ, Faith McPherson's father was a minister!

There must be a secret hidden in this book or else you wouldn't bother to read it

What other knowledge will my solitude and muteness bring? What other worlds?

I have become interested in languages which I cannot make up, which I cannot create or even create in: I have become interested in languages which I can only come up upon (as I disappear), a pirate upon buried treasure. The dreamer, the dreaming, the dream. I call these languages, languages of the body.

The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been. -

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. - Albert Einstein People

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. - Thomas Edison

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Doing field archaeology can be a labor of love, with the accent on labor.

Won't you take me to Monkey-Town?

was the isolated skeleton?

Die auf der Autozulassung angegebene Adresse ist falsch." "Ernsthaft? Das haben sie so schnell herausgefunden?" "Nee. Hab eine Stecknadel in die Luft geworfen und geschaut, wo sie auf der Karte landet.

you are looking for?

or Cambridge to

I felt like I was ten again and had been caught using my uncle's Cuban cigars as miniature canoes in the toilet.

I'm sure nothing more exciting will happen beyond finding some Roman ruins beneath the pasture," Gunner predicted, an excellent example of why he would never be called psychic in any understanding of the word.

Angela had been the first of us. She'd been found on a park bench by some dawn jogger or dog walker, her throat slit, her sandals lined up next to her bare feet. And did you ever notice how these are the people who are always discovering the bodies, these people whose lives are so orderly that they can rise early enough to find a whole other human being dumped on the ground?

These people whose lives are so orderly that they can rise early enough to find a whole other human body just dumped on the ground...