Quotes About Discovery

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.

I remember, for the first time, sitting down and consuming books in a matter of hours. This was such a new experience for me because reading, up until that point, had been such a struggle and source of stress. I think I just needed to find the right kind of stories with which I could identify.

Everyone at a point in their life is struggling to find out who they are and where they belong.

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

I have an ocean of opportunities awaiting me and once I am back from Miss World, I want to explore whatever life has to offer.

I just moved to Florida to seek out opportunities.

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

Before 'Broad City,' I had a lot of jobs that I knew were not for me, but when you're young and don't know exactly what you're going to do, if an opportunity comes up, you feel like, 'This is an opportunity; I have to try it.'

What we've demonstrated is there's an immense appetite to travel more authentically and immerse yourself in culture... as opposed to having a commoditised experience.

I've always had an explorative drive to my art, as opposed to wanting to achieve some certain goal.

We should not be a party that is opposed to science.

That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.

I was fascinated with optical illusions.

The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.

There's a lot of optimism in changing scenery, in seeing what's down the road.

I started playing guitar, like, when I was 17 or so, but where I'm from, you just don't hear about people moving to Nashville and making it. It was such a foreign thing to me. I never knew music was an option for me.

I wasn't sure music was an option for me.

I would love to explore my options in Tamil as well as Malayalam.

I once knew a girl who didn't know where anywhere was in the world. Not a clue. I asked her if she knew where Africa was and she answered, 'Is it the orange one on a map?'

I'm not going into infinity. I'm going into low earth orbit.

To me, we have never really exploited our ability in low-Earth orbit.

There is no secret orchard where ideas grow. Oh my, do I wish there were.

I think I was 16 when I had the thought of maybe being a writer. And this is complicated, something I only now understand, because when I was young, having dyslexia and not knowing it made reading such an ordeal.

I kept listening to albums where I'd hear this very joyful sound - and it was always the glockenspiel. Then I ordered one online, and I figured out how to play it.