Quotes About Discovery

I am never really surprised at the way my books take shape. They are just not as perfect as I'd like them to be.

We were very surprised to find out that Pluto is still geologically alive. It has upended our ideas of how planetary geophysics works.

When I began to write my books about Coalwood, I was surprised to discover, upon reflection, that it wasn't an ordinary place at all.

I keep being surprised by the amount of archaeological sites and features that are left to find all over the world.

Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that you think might not be for you. You might be surprised.

I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before.

When I was a young student, I only listened to foreign music, mainly rock music and hard rock. Then I surprised myself by discovering ethnic music. Now I like to listen to music from different places, and in many situations. Even when you work, some ethnic music calms the nerves.

But I hope that you walk around the corner and you get very surprised.

I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn't know it was in System V.

You may be surprised to discover you're rich, especially if you're broke.

You'd be surprised how inspired you'll be when you go into a different store than the one you normally go to for gifts.

You will be surprised but I do a lot of studying and I watch National Geographic.

Some friends said they weren't surprised to find out Napoleon and I were related, but it came as quite a shock to me.

Every time I write a song I feel really lucky and kind of surprised. Not surprised that I wrote it, but just surprised that things exist that you don't know about.

Often times, I'm surprised by what I'm writing or what I'm playing, and then that inspires me to keep going with it, so it ends up being a very adventurous process.

Improv plays such a huge role in finding great lines - you'll be surprised at what comes out of your mind inadvertently. A lot of times it's better than a script you've worked out ahead of time.

I never know what's going to move me. I'm always surprised. And it's always a mystery to the people who work with me.

I'm getting more into fashion. I'm surprised that I'm getting into it because I was always wearing goofy stuff in high school.

If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.

That's what's so wonderful about being in this business because you're constantly surprised. You have to be up for anything.

Try everything on, even gowns that you don't think you'll love. You might be surprised and fall in love with a gown that you weren't drawn to at first.

I'm constantly being surprised and finding unplanned things - because the writing is a process of experiencing things on the ground with the characters.

I do believe that even if you're the most clever person around and you figure out the 'whodunit' and you're not surprised - that shouldn't prevent you from enjoying the story.

I'm as surprised as anybody. I never would have thought I'd be here talking about having a cooking show on the Food Network. It wasn't on my list of things, but it's fun, and I'm having a good time.