Quotes About Discovery

Books should always be open.

Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.

Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.

When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins.

Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the other side of the half-open door. They were promising her a thousand unknown stories, a thousand doors into worlds she had never seen before.

THE WONDERFUL EXPLOITS OF GRASSHOPPER.

The point of our lives is not to get smart or to get rich or even to get happy. The point is to discover God's purposes for us and to make them our own.

Whatever is unknown is taken for marvelous; but now the limits of Britain are laid bare.

The French doctor - the French, they are a very logical race and make good doctors - says: "M'sieu, they have all been on the wrong track - ("Jane Brown's Body")

Sottolineo molto e ho l'abitudine di segnare alla fine del libro i numeri delle pagine che mi interessano, di modo che un giorno, leggendo quella serie di riferimenti, potrò in pochi minuti dare un'occhiata alle cose che più mi avevano sorpreso.

Andábamos sin buscarnos, pero sabíamos que andábamos para encontrarnos

I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with an ending and I decided to go back and re-read the book and see if I could come up with an ending.

It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions.

I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend of a friend suggested I try acting. I was like, 'Why? What am I going to do? Community theater?' But I took a class, and the teacher thought that I had potential, so I moved to Vancouver and started auditioning.

So it's not what you thought it was going to be—that doesn't mean it can't still be something amazing.

I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder.

You always fall hardest the first time, don't you? There's no bottom to it. As I reached teenagehood and beyond, I'd hear guys say: I just don't get women. And sure, I didn't get women either, but wasn't that the best part, the not knowing? Where else could that wild, passionate, scream-it-from-the-rooftops love come from?

We can be completely ignorant about how or why something works and yet still relish the results.

Be prepared for a journey, but don't expect a destination.

Be prepared fpr a journey, but don't expect a destination.

I don't know now if I'm funny. I just keep talking and hope that I hit something that's funny.

It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear.

It seemed that I performed better sober than drunk. Who knew?

I don't think wood was discovered in Britain until the 1970's. That's when I discovered it anyway.