Quotes About Discovery

The discovery of America, the rounding of the Cape, opened up fresh ground for the rising bourgeoisie.

I've found out that Malakula was named by Captain James Cook. It comes from the French mal au cul which means 'pain in the arse' after Cook found it difficult to deal with cannibals, volcanoes and other annoying features. It's good to know proper explorers sometimes share the feelings I have on my travels.

I was still getting my head round the fact that carrot juice existed

going they hadn't heard of it either.

When you're going in the right direction, life always looks larger than what you're accustomed to.

The past is a cupboard full of light and all you have to do is find the key that opens the door.

She had been here before. She had never been here before. There was always something just out of sight, just around a corner, something she could never chase down—something that was chasing her down.

Sometimes Jackson thought that the past wasn't just another country, it was a lost continent somewhere at the bottom of an unknown ocean.

Maurice had disappeared after breakfast. He was a nine-year-old boy and free to go where he pleased with whomsoever he pleased, although he tended to keep to the exclusive company of other nine-year-old boys. Sylvie had no idea what they did but at the end of the day he would return, filthy from head to toe and with some unappetizing trophy, a jar of frogs or worms, a dead bird, the bleached skull of some small creature.

A lone fisherman up early looking for sea trout found the first body.

Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries.

As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.

Think of the man who first tried German sausage.

On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll; on plastic clay and leather scroll, man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed, and lo! the Press was found at last!

When a man talks with absolute sincerity and freedom he goes on a voyage of discovery. The whole company has shares in the enterprise.

Men really need sea-monsters in their personal oceans. An ocean without its unnamed monsters would be like a completely dreamless sleep.

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.

A man away from home need feel no shame. Let's go out there and shame ourselves like crazy.

What fiction could match - in drama or suspense - man's first walk on the Moon?

When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists - nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.

Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

The way is One and only One. The way is close at hand, but men seek it afar.

When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before.