Quotes About Discovery

Not all journeys seek an end. Some are their own purpose.

Was that what Starfleet was, when it came down to it? One massive high-school science club? Why had no one ever mentioned this before?

Since his life had been caught up into the current of this great stream, things which had before been the whole of life to him came to seem of relatively slight importance; his interests were elsewhere, in the world of ideas. His outward life was commonplace and uninteresting; he was just a hotel-porter, and expected to remain one while he lived; but meantime, in the realm of thought, his life was a perpetual adventure. There was so much to know—so many wonders to be discovered!

Her past life had become a sort of fairy tale, to which she listened gladly and asked questions. After the treatment had continued for two or three weeks she began to exclaim, "I believe I remember that!

It was, he discovered, like all California towns, built haphazard, a jumble of anybody's whims, with half its spaces empty because people were holding them, waiting for values to rise.

And now for a matter of five years he had been making the discovery that Adi was a man who kept no promises and had no conception of loyalty to anything but his own "intuition." Now this Catholic steelmaster was in the position

I had never heard Ellery laugh before, not out loud. I loved the sound, it filled me up. It tinkled like a magic bird.

Women make up half the world; and I thought I had reached the stage where there was nothing in a woman's nakedness to surprise me. But I felt now as if I was experiencing anew, and seeing a woman for the first time.

Small things can start us off in new ways of thinking, and I was started off by the postage stamps of our area.

Whatever they say about going back to the beginning, they'll be interested in the car.

Confronted with her, I shed old fantasies. My body obeyed its new impulses, discovered in itself resources that answered my new need.

I had to do the books I did because there were no books about those subjects to give me what I wanted. I had to clear up my world, elucidate it, for myself.

Boy, the only thing to make is the thing without a name.

Without science, there would be no you; without you, the future would offer a much narrower prospect.

Discovering dedicated mystery booksellers was a bit like going to heaven without having to die first

It's your fault because you got me into Morag Fraser. I'd never even heard of the Hebridean Harpies series till you dragged me along to her event. And now I am totally hooked. I was reading Vampires on Vatersay till one in the morning. I just had to finish it. And then I started Banshees of Berneray at breakfast and I could hardly drag myself away from it to come and meet you.

finally to have a sex life, even if it was deeper in the closet than Narnia.

A cold case was a story, constructed piece by piece. Sometimes the pieces arrived in the wrong order so it made no sense at first...at the end, if you found all the pieces, you had a coherent tale. Sometimes, though, you ended up with a stack of ill-assorted bits that didn't quite fit...Then it was like one of those novels that won literary prizes, the ones where you got to the end, closed the book and asked yourself, 'What just happened here?

Malcolm Goodwin's Holy Grail

Sometimes the very thing you're looking for is the one thing you cannot see.

Discerning the Core Values is a discovery process.

Sin miedo al enigma de ti mismo Acaso encuentres una luz sin noche Perdida en las grietas de los precipicios»

There were truths that grew between people which they could not know themselves until some sharp moment of destiny brought them to light.

and life, Mr. Finchley discovered, was nothing if it did not hold adventure and romance.