Quotes About Discovery

Something that you feel will find its own form.

Somewhere along the line I knew there'd be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me.

Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain...

Here I was at the end of America...no more land...and nowhere was nowhere to go but back

This was really the way my whole road experience began, and the things that were to come are too fantastic not to tell.

Somewhere along the line, the pearl would be handed to me.

The road must eventually lead to the whole world. Ain't nowhere else it can go - right?

What's Your Road, Man?

Yet this book is to prove that no matter how you travel, how 'successful' your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn to change your thoughts.

He knew the road would get more interesting, especially ahead, always ahead.

I suddenly realized I was in California. Warm, palmy air - air you can kiss - and palms.

All that hitchhikin All that railroadin All that comin back to America

we got out of the car for air and suddenly both of us were stoned with joy to realize that in the darkness all around us was fragrant green grass and the smell of fresh manure and warm waters. 'We're in the South! We've left the winter!' Faint daybreak illuminated green shoots by the side of the road. I took a deep breath; a locomotive howled across the darkness, mobile-bound. So were we. I took off my shirt and exulted

Here I was at the end of America - no more land - and now there was nowhere to go but back.

Did you ever stand on a street corner in American at five o'clock in the morning? I did.

We had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

This can't go on all the time- all this franticness and jumping around. We've got to go someplace, find something.

He and I suddenly saw the whole country like an oyster for us to open; and the pearl was there, the pearl was there.

Dobbiamo andare e non fermarci finché non siamo arrivati. - Dove andiamo? - Non lo so, ma dobbiamo andare.

Does kittykat know there's a pigeon on the clothes closet?

With frantic Dean I was rushing through the world without a chance to see it.

Basta seguire la strada e prima o poi si fa il giro del mondo. Non può finire in nessun altro posto, no?

That was the way Dean found me when he finally decided I was worth saving.

This was a manuscript of the night we couldn't read - Sal Paradise, On The Road