Quotes About Discovery

Os livros poderiam ensiná-la tanto sobre este mundo e outros lugares distantes, sobre animais e plantas, sobre estrelas! Podiam ser janelas e portas, asas de papel para ajudá-la a voar para bem longe.

Niemand au?er den Ratsmidgliedern, ihre Sekretären, Ehefrauen, den Minenarbeitern, die die Gruft gefunden haben...' Jacob hob den Zwerg in den Käfig. 'Ich wurde mich nicht darauf verlassen, dass euer Geheimnis sicher ist.

Was ist der grö?te Schatz, den du je gefunden hast?', hatte Chanute ihn vor nich allzu langer Zeit gefragt. Jacob hatte die Schultern gezukt und ein paar aufgezählt. 'Du bist ein nog grö?erer Dummkopf als ich,' hatte Chanute geknurrt. 'Ich hoffe nur, das du ihn nicht verloren hast, wenn dir die wahre Antwort dimmert.

Sie war so froh, das Jacob gekommen war. Und wünschte sich so sehr, er hätte sie nie gefunden.

Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them…

What happened to a book that disappeared into its own story?

The reason there's no use looking," said Mr. Beaver, "is that we know already where he's gone!" Everyone stared in amazement. "Don't you understand?" said Mr. Beaver. "He's gone to her, to the White Witch. He has betrayed us all." C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Imagine trying to hold the tail of a comet as it blazes across the heavens. It's burning your hands, eating you up, but there's no malice in it; a comet can't possibly know or care about you. You will sacrifice all you are or ever will be for that comet because it suffuses every inch of your skin with a sweet itch you cannot catch, and through its grace you discover velocities you never dreamt possible.

You always fall hardest the first time, don't you? There's no bottom to it.

If we go beyond what we once thought was our perimeter, then all limits are open to question.

Como é bom deixar uma marca na superfície branca. Fazer um mapa com meus passos mesmo que seja temporário.

When the well runs dry, the nomad migrates. But if the barren landscape is within, where can one turn?

Oil, they had discovered, could be used as a weapon. Suddenly, Saudi Arabia took on the position Texas itself had once had and became the swing oil producer for the great industrial nations of the world. The biggest transfer of wealth in human history was under way. Hundreds of billions of dollars in oil revenues poured into the Saudi Kingdom. The Saudis were drowning in petrodollars.

This is the problem with adventures. They bring out parts of you that you never even knew were there.

Sometimes it is not until the Final Chapter that you realise what a quest has REALLY been about all along.

I have never cared for castles or a crown that grips too tight, Let the night sky be my starry roof and the moon my only light, My heart was born a Hero, My storm-bound sword won't rest, I left this harbour long ago on a never-ending quest. I am off to the horizon, Where the wild wind blows the foam, Come get lost with me, love, And the sea shall be our home.

If you were a fanciful person, you might have said that it was almost as if that box was looking for Hiccup. But we are not fanciful people, and that would be ridiculous.

Imagine if you had spent the whole first part of your life trying to walk on your hands. The clumsiness of it, always falling over, always stumbling, always the last at everything. Imagine the joy of discovering that in fact you could walk on your feet after all.

I had been immersed in the waters of the Great West Ocean, and came out a different person

You are small. You have red hair. You don't realize it yet, but you are about to set out on the most alarming episode of your life so far…

Only those prepared to go too far will learn how far they can go.

What I didn't understand—what I suddenly realized now—was that if I stopped moving backwards, trying to recapture the past, there might be a future waiting for me, waiting for us, a future that would reveal itself if only I turned around and looked, and that once I did, I could start to move toward it.

When you are a high school girl, there is nothing more miraculous than a high school boy.

Being called baby: like safaris and bowling leagues, a phenomenon she never thought she'd experience first hand.