Quotes About Discovery

Only when you are challenged—and only when you challenge yourself—do you discover what truly matters.

Todo es tan sencillo que me dan ganas de flotar por el aire. Él se alegra de que lo haya encontrado. Yo me alegro de haberlo encontrado. No nos da miedo reconocerlo.

Esto sucedió antes de que nos conociéramos, antes de que encontrase a alguien que lo acogiera y le dijera que no había nada malo en él.

As pessoas gostam de dizer que ser gay não é como a cor da pele, não é uma coisa física. Elas dizem que sempre temos a opção de esconder. Mas, se isso for verdade, como é que eles sempre nos descobrem?

I don't know what I thought I'd find by breaking in here.

He asked me if I wrote, and I told him the truth - that I was still observing, and hadn't yet found the words.

New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.

The beautiful thing is that when you catch one fish that you love, even if it's a little fish—a fragment of an idea—that fish will draw in other fish, and they'll hook onto it. Then you're on your way. Soon there are more and more and more fragments, and the whole thing emerges. But it starts with desire.

You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for.

I love going into another world, and I love mysteries. So I don't really like to know very much ahead of time. I like the feeling of dicovery.

Ultimately, each life is a mystery until we each solve the mystery, and that's where we are all headed whether we know it or not.

about cinema) It's like opening a door and go into a new world.

Ideas are like fish. You don't make the fish, you catch the fish.

Darwin hat a wonderful scientific habit of noticing facts that seemed inconsistent with his theories.

So long as we are driven by the need to make up for our needs; by the restless sense that we are not yet fully assured of our place in the world and our hold on its swarming phenomena; so long as there is more to be discovered and made, more to grasp for and make real, we must go on inventing ourselves.

Revolutions begin with the mutual discovery of the ideologues and the Jacobins: the first happy to have discovered compatible souls, the second to have found flunkies.

Have I mentioned looking in Savona, New York, ever? Or in Cambridge, Massachusetts?

Writing comes out of the rift between what we have experienced and the language we've been given to express it. We write to bridge this divide, to find word adequate to our sense of reality... Creative writing is the search for and creation of a language that will express what the writer unconsciously knows but does not yet have a language to express.

A half roll of Life Savers fused to the pockets, And in yet another, a lone unwrapped mint Had bundled itself in a stole of gray lint.

Weird doors open. People fall into things.

College is the best thing that can ever happen to you, my father used to say, and he was right, for it was there that I discovered drugs, drinking, and smoking..

I felt betrayed, the way you do when you discover that your cat has a secret secondary life and is being fed by neighbors who call him something stupid like Calypso. Worse is that he loves them as much as he loves you, which is to say not at all, really. The entire relationship has been your own invention.

But at the end of every show we would realize that true happiness often lies where you very least expect it. It might arrive in a form of a gentle breeze or a handful of peanuts, but when it came, we would seize it with our own brand of folksy wisdom.

I felt betrayed, the way you do when you discover that your cat has a secret secondary life and is being fed by neighbors who call him something stupid like Calypso.