Quotes About Discovery

Acting is my interest, but it opens up avenues.

I think it's the great thing about having kids. They have interests that you might not have, and it opens your horizons.

I give a lot of credit to my wanderings. Because it just opens up your mind to life itself.

For years, I wasn't in the least bit interested in opera.

When I was younger, I felt it essential to see every movie ever made. Now I feel as though I've got to read every book, see every art show, watch every play and opera and concert and so on. It does not end, and of course there is truth in the old cliche that the more one knows, the more one realizes one knows nothing at all.

To this day, I adore classical music, and I'm very interested in opera, which I found out later my father was also extremely fond of.

In using chance operations, the mind is enriched.

The final mystery is oneself.

I can now recreate life in a way that was hidden from me, before.'A dream of form in days of thought:

But whether I become a believer or remain an agnostic, my belief or disbelief must derive its source from within, not from without. I, myself, must create its symbols. The transcendental is that which produces its own form. I will never discover its secret if I do not find it in my own heart; if I do not possess it already I shall never be able to acquire it.

Prism! Where is that baby?

Have you not sometimes noted, When we unlock some long-disuséd room With heavy dust and soiling mildew filled, Where never foot of man has come for years, And from the windows take the rusty bar, And fling the broken shutters to the air, And let the bright sun in, how the good sun Turns every grimy particle of dust Into a little thing of dancing gold? Guido, my heart is that long-empty room, But you have let love in, and with its gold Gilded all life.

that is one of the great secrets of life. Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Why had it been left for a stranger to reveal him to himself?

It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.

The Icelanders are the most intelligent race on earth, because they discovered America and never told anyone.

And after that they had gone through many streets they came to a little door that was set in a wall that was covered with a pomegranate tree. And the old man touched the door with a ring of graved jaspar and it opened, and they went down five steps of brass into a garden filled with black poppies and green jars of burnt clay.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered," said Mr. Erskine; "I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

We look to the archaeologist for the materials, to the artist for the method.

Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.

always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing. . . 

Do you mean to say you have had my cigarette case all this time?  I wish to goodness you had let me know.  I have been writing frantic letters to Scotland Yard about it.  I was very nearly offering a large reward. Algernon.  Well, I wish you would offer one.  I happen to be more than usually hard up.

And yet it seems to me to be the one thing I have been looking for all my life.