Quotes About Discovery

You haven't lived until you've sailed

the lower bunks, both of us longing to be pinned. "You kids think you invented sex," my mother was fond of saying. But hadn't we? With no instruction manual or federally enforced training period, didn't we all come away feeling we'd discovered something unspeakably modern?

Were it not for Sorry! I'd never have known that Kathy's mother shot a kitten in the head.

June 3, 1987 Chicago This afternoon I found a $50 bill in the foyer of the building near the mailboxes. It was folded thin and full of cocaine. Some of it spilled when I opened it up, but there's still plenty left. So that's $50 in cash and around $80 worth of cocaine—$130! If I find $50 every day, I won't need to get a job.

Days later, I saw an X-ray of a Bose speaker inside someone. "And it was still connected to Bluetooth," the woman who showed it to me whispered.

I would later discover it was a bad idea to gather more than two of these people in an enclosed area for any length of time. The stage was not only a physical place but also a state of mind, and the word audience was defined as anyone forced to suffer your company. We young actors were a string of lightbulbs left burning 24 hours a day, exhausting ourselves and others with our self-proclaimed brilliance.

made a similar discovery about prostate cancer.7 Certain genes trigger an extreme sensitivity to inflammation and stimulate the transformation of slow-growing microtumors of the prostate into aggressive and metastatic cancers.e However, when men who carried such genes consumed oily, omega-3-rich fish at least twice a week, their dangerous genes remained in check. Their cancers were five times less likely to become aggressive than those of men who ate no oily fish at all.

create parameters, set it off, see what happens'

Where she was going, she had no idea. But the fact that she could still walk suggested she should. And so she did.

Volite cijelim srcem, Budite iznena?eni, Zahvaljujte se i hvalite - Tad ?ete otkriti Ispunjenost svog života.

Todos en algún instante de nuestra vida necesitamos regresar a la caverna.

Exploration and invention were the two faces on the coin of progress, and progress was the spirit of the age

Well, thank the gods,' he sighed. 'Oh? And what would it be you're thanking them for?' Bahzell inquired, and Brandark grinned. 'For making roads and letting us find one. Not that I'm complaining, you understand, but this business of following you cross-country without the faintest idea where I am can worry a man.

small craft had yet returned, so

one small thing I've learned these years, how to be alone, and at the edge of aloneness how to be found by the world.

A steel door clapped open as a guard stepped from the bulletproof viewing station across the hall. Adams! That you? I told you, I don't know- The cop pointed straight at him. Jeffrey Adams! Front and center! The black man helped him rise to his feet. Ain't everybody gets called back from the pit, man. Question is, what are you gonna do when you find out who you are?

There's no key to the universe, you just have to point your way in one direction, keep going, keep going, keep going, and see what happens.

A novel must be a rich forest known at the start only by instinct.

You want to know the problem with going somewhere no one's ever been? It takes so damned long to get there.

Set phasers to stun, and ... we shall see what happens.

No matter how fast our ships can go, space is still very big.

Bon Iver, "Holocene

On the Road that I have taken, one day walking I awaken, amazed to see where I've come, where I'm going, where I'm from.

My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.