Quotes About Discovery

It surprised him to see that the play which he had known at rehearsals for a disjointed lifeless thing had suddenly assumed a life of its own.

I felt even annoyed at discovering in myself a sensation of freedom as if I had been freed from something by his death.

It is like looking down from the clifs of Moher into the depths. Many go down into the depths and never come up. Only the trained diver can go down into those depths and explore them and come to the surface again.

Les erreurs sont les portes de la découverte.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

We must go to Athens.

King Solomon says in Proverbs that there is nothing new under the sun.

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We are once amore as babes awondering in a wold made fresh where with the hen in the storyaboot we start from scratch.

pocket-book packetboat, gapman gunrun;

He had tales of distant countries.

Thalatta! Thalatta!

a man of genius makes no mistakes his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery

I had seen a dawn like this one only twice in my life: once in Vietnam, when a Bouncing Betty had risen from the earth on a night trail and twisted its tentacles of light around my thighs, and years earlier outside of Franklin, Louisiana, when my father and I discovered the body of a labor organizer who had been crucified with sixteen-penny nails, ankle and wrist, against a barn wall. - Sunset Limited

The Homeric Epic does not have to be discovered inside a book; it begins just west of Fort Worth and extends all the way to Santa Monica.

Many years ago I learned that we discover the best and worst in people when they're under duress. I think that principle has certainly borne out with my pitiful friend. I wish I had not been witness to it. I take his car keys and drive him to my home and keep him there until he's sober. He weeps in shame before he drives himself home.

The air was bright with a clean, cold smell like dark water dipped out of a rain barrel in winter, perhaps a harbinger that the gifts of the earth are many, all of them waiting to be discovered.

As a young person on the edge of discovering the world and shaking away the scales of your youth, did you ever have a day when you knew that for the rest of your life, you would be grateful that your father was your father and your mother was your mother, no matter how flawed they might be?

It was so beautiful I could hardly keep my eyes off it. "Father, it's so big," I said. He grinned. "This is nothing, Tim. Wait till we get down to Verplancks

In fourteen hundred and ninety-three, Columbus stole all he could see.

Qui-Gon was the key to everything.

I think it's leading us on a wild gundark chase.

Ain't that funny? You fall for a guy because he's smart and then you find out he's smart.

You never know where one step will take you, and you never know where the next one will lead. The