Quotes About Discovery

I have always learned the most about the world by going to places I was never supposed to be and being with people I was never supposed to meet.

Well I walk right on up to your rebel roadside The one that rambles on for a million miles Yes I walk down this road searchin' for your love And my soul too When I find ya I ain't gonna let go.

Reporting is all about legwork, getting out and finding the story. But all the stories are on the top floors, so you have to learn to climb stairs. That's what reporting is all about, climbing tenement stairs.

Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world.

Under the heavens and under the sea there's a friend I don't know, who holds the right key.

Life is so much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

We had made the exciting discovery that our lives do not need to be limited to past experiences. The future could be challenging and fulfilling as well.

Viver - não é? - é muito perigoso. Porque ainda não se sabe. Porque aprender-a-viver é que é o viver, mesmo.

On March 2, 1699, Iberville arrived at the mouth of the river, where there was fresh water and a strong current. The following day, Shrove Tuesday, they began their travels up the river. Finding a bayou twelve miles upstream, they named it in honor of the holiday, Mardi Gras Bayou, and thus was Mardi Gras introduced to the Louisiana territory

We write to discover what we think.

I was not going to Honolulu because I wanted to see life reduced to a short story. I was going to Honolulu because I wanted to see life expanded to a novel, and I still do.

I went because I was interested in the alchemy of issues.

Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it.

During those years I was traveling on what I knew to be a very shaky passport, forged papers: I knew that I was no legitimate resident in any world of ideas. I knew I couldn't think. All I knew then was what I couldn't do. All I knew then was what I wasn't, and it took me some years to discover what I was. Which was a writer.

I have been looking all my life for history and have yet to find it.

I don't know what I think until I write about it.

They mentioned everything but one thing: that she had left the point in a bedroom in Encino.

wrote, "despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and that may cut free memories and feelings that we had thought gone to ground long ago.

Nothing was irrevocable; everything was within reach. Just around every corner lay something curious and interesting, something I had never before seen or done or known about.

Who is the director of dreams, would he care? Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means.

We went to get away from ourselves, and the way to do that is to drive, down through Nogales some day when the pretty green places pall and all that will move the imagination is some place difficult, some desert.

What kind of magpie keeps this notebook?

All I knew then was what I wasn't, and it took me some years to discover what I was.