Quotes About Discovery

In high school, I would secretly play Joni Mitchell songs all the time. That's when I started singing and playing at the same time, and I got really into doing that.

Every time somebody asks me, 'Oh, when you mix your own music, what are you going to make?' And I don't know.

I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it.

Charley Patton is the original inspiration. I didn't play anything when I was a kid. Then, when I was 20, I went into my mam's bedroom because she had a double mirror, and I wanted to see what the back of my hair was doing. She had an alarm-clock radio, and it came on with this old guy moaning and hollering, playing this strange guitar.

Mobile has created a totally different dynamic for discovering apps. You're sitting in a bar, and your friend is taking some pictures, and then you ask what app they're using.

I'm trying to assemble materials for a different mode of life.

It's an audacious thing to build a model of the cosmos. It's exciting how little we know.

So that's when I saw the DNA model for the first time, in the Cavendish, and that's when I saw that this was it. And in a flash you just knew that this was very fundamental.

I went to the Professional Children's School in New York, and I started modeling because I could do that until I actually figured out what I wanted to do, and it gave me the opportunity to travel.

I just fell into modeling.

There are still many places around the globe I would like to explore, and I'm going to trust my modeling career to take me to at least some of them!

I went to Africa the first time when I was 14 and first starting out in modeling. I went for a campaign and I just fell in love.

For me, modelling has been an advantage because if I hadn't been modelling, I would never have been spotted as an actress. I didn't have any intention of becoming an actress.

You never know when or where you will find the next new model, but you can bet someone from Ford Models will be looking.

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.

There are many mediocre entertainers who don't aspire to much more than fame and glory. It's very easy to have them as your role models because there aren't as many greats. Go back, discover the greats, and take it from there.

I didn't have any role models. I really thought I was doomed to this loveless, lonely life. I didn't know any gay people until I began doing theater.

I started my scientific work by putting forward a hypothesis on the arrangement of atoms in nitrogen-containing molecules.

When I started acting I knew nothing. It was a momentous decision to pick up the flyer for the 'Trainspotting' audition. 'Destined' is a bit of a poncy word for it, but I do think I was headed in that direction.

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.

I had my moments for sure but I wasn't confrontational. And sometimes you get on the court and you'd find yourself very confrontational. It was all a discovery.

There aren't a lot of 'Aha!' moments in writing.

I had one of those light bulb 'a ha' moments while screening 'Good Will Hunting' in Camp David in 1998 - Madeleine Albright and the Clintons were there, and I just became really inspired by all of these amazing people. I left the screening asking myself what I could do.

Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.