Quotes About Discovery

Space only becomes ordinary when the frontier is no longer being breached.

That's important to me, to find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.

One day I discovered that one could get the barrier to internal rotation in ethane approximately right using this method. This was the beginning of my work on organic molecules.

I came to singing organically.

In documentaries, the process is that you film a lot of things, and out of what you've shot, something organically reveals itself, and there's a discovery process.

Even if the ocean on Enceladus starts out being as microbially poor as the pelagic ocean on Earth, which is the worst case, we still have a chance of seeing lots of organisms in the plumes.

I didn't know anything about the Angels when I first got there. But they really are a good organization.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

I enjoy the hero genre more than anything else. I enjoy origin stories. I enjoy doing stories about people who learn what they are capable of.

And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music.

If someone wants to make very, very original music that no one has ever heard before, you shouldn't know anything about music. It just narrows you down, you know?

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists.

'I'm a Celebrity' was so much harder than I originally thought. Until you are in the jungle, you don't really know what you're in for.

Originally, nobody knew John Cena rapped. It was just something he did in the car. I told Bruce Prichard, and that's how the whole 'Thugonomics' run began.

How Jamie Tartt came to be Jamie Tartt was that he was originally Dani Rojas - but not as we know him now because Cristo Fernandez is Dani Rojas. They saw Cristo Fernandez and went, okay, we're going to make a character and we'll find a name for him.

I once paddled a canoe the length of the Mississippi River all the way from Itasca to New Orleans.

New Orleans is still the place where you find out that you have a doppelganger and feel lucky - but somehow unsurprised - to learn that his name is Mad Bottom.

I'm not from New Orleans, never knew anything about New Orleans.

I still believe there is a lot of truth in Orthodox Judaism, but not the whole truth. Each person has his truth that he has to discover. You don't necessarily have to mold yourself to another idea of who you are.

I actually had to learn what an Oscar was.

I've always loved movies, so I tried to get into an acting school. I saw an ad for the Oscar school on the back of 'The Irish Times,' and I went along for an audition, very pragmatically, to see if I could do it or not.

I am interested in the Oscar Wilde we don't know.

I was always the kid down the street who got the other kids to put on a show. But it was only when I was 19, and discovered ballet and contemporary dance, that I got interested in the fact that you could have a whole evening of dance - rather than just waiting for the dancers in a musical.