Quotes About Discovery

left. If you drive to work or school along the same route every day, intentionally vary the way you go, exploring different streets and unfamiliar territory. This sounds simple, almost innocuous. But when we do a familiar task in a novel way, we stir a fresh awareness.

I am larger and better than I thought. I did not think I held so much goodness. Walt Whitman

there may be some journeys that you just never come all the way home from.

These included the top of Mount Everest and up the chief's rear passage.

Puri found the walls bare, his secretary having put away all his accolades, including his signed and personalized Kenny G album cover

We went to places where we felt - like all lovers - that we were the first. We discovered the body of a lover has secrets that never end. We discovered that at times the same secrets reveal different truths.

Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been

Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacific–and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise– Silent, upon a peak in Darien.

think of the adventures on which she might embark.

Amelia Edward's Thousand Miles Up the Nile, Gertrude Bell's Persian Pictures, and Mary Kingsley's Travels in West Africa, Congo Français, Corisco, and Cameroons.

What really got me thinking about illustrating children's books was I discovered Hugh Thompson's illustrations for The Vicar of Wakefield in my mother's library and I looked at it and said, 'That's what I'm going to do.

The more I read, the hungrier I become. Each book seemed promising, each page I turned offered an escapade, the allure of another world, other destinies, other dreams.

You're playing with Pandora's box. Sometimes it's better not to open it. Sometimes, it's better not to know.

Finally, the lock clicked and she tugged the secret door open. A rotten stench hit her like a fist. She drew away. The boy at her side recoiled, afraid. Sarah fell to her knees. Sarah could not speak, she could only quiver, her fingers covering her eyes, her nose, blocking out the smell.....She sank to her knees again and she screamed at the top of her lungs, she screamed, for her mother, for her father, screamed for Michel.

I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.

Young people often struggle with pointless pursuits until they realize for themselves that they are pointless. And that, in fact, is the point.

I find out the man is my Biological and he's standing there with his dick in his hand.

But home isn't where you land; home is where you launch.

like that one time when Celestial happened upon a receipt for two pieces of lingerie, not just for the one I gave her for her birthday.

There are two kinds of people in the world, those who leave home, and those who don't.

Well, somebody in your situation needs to look at life like a newborn baby. Pretend like you have never been in the world before and you're waiting for it to show you what's what. Keep your head in the right now.

blessings, but curses. And this afflicted me. When I was drained of tears, but not of sorrow, I discovered I could speak no more. But when I find him whom I seek, not only will the curse against my people be lifted, I shall speak once more in rejoicing.

I've found time can heal most anything and you just might find who you're supposed to be.

I think I feel in love with words before I feel in love with music.