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Quotes About Discovery

It is me. I am his madness. For years he's been looking for something to put his madness into. And he found me.
~ John Fowles
I had got away from what I hated, but I hadn't found where I loved, and so I pretended that there was nowhere to love.
~ John Fowles
I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any given point, not some itinerary decided before entry.
~ John Fowles
The feeling that he would probably betray me. And I've always thought of marriage as a sort of young adventure, two people of the same age setting out together, discovering together, growing together. But I would have nothing to tell him, nothing to show him. All the helping would be on his side.
~ John Fowles
Seeing her made me feel like I was catching a rarity, going up to it very careful, heart-in-mouth as they say.
~ John Fowles
It poured with rain the day I left. But I was filled with excitement, a strange exuberant sense of taking wing. I didn't know where I was going, but I knew what I needed. I needed a new land, a new race, a new language; and although I couldn't have put it into words then, I needed a new mystery.
~ John Fowles
He is mad. It is me. I am his madness. For years he's been looking for something to put his madness into. And he found me.
~ John Fowles
hay tiempos que el lenguaje humano aún debe inventar.
~ John Fowles
Remember: The answers are in the questions.
~ John G. Miller
pentru cei din familia Pendyce era lege s? nu întrebe niciodat? nimic È™i s? nu cread? ce li se spune, ci s? descopere singuri ceea ce c?utau, ostenindu-se în mod inutil pentru ca apoi s? se plîng?.
~ John Galsworthy
Being around new and different people always brings out some new part of who you are.
~ John Gray
The common sense of one generation was always a new discovery to previous generations.
~ John Gray
I had never seen a woman's breasts before, and I doubted if any seven-year-old boy in Craighead County had. Maybe some kid had stumbled upon his mother, but I was certain no boy my age had never had this view.
~ John Grisham
The site of the burned house was located, and the police found the remains of what appeared to be a jawbone. This was soon reported in the Ada Evening News.
~ John Grisham
of the top lid opens slowly. Mercifully, there is no dead baby inside. Far from it. Vanessa pauses to study the collection of small wooden cigar boxes all sealed with a band of silver duct tape and for the most part stacked in rows. Sweat is dripping from her eyebrows and she tries to swipe at it with a forearm. Carefully
~ John Grisham
Denice Haraway was killed by a single gunshot wound to the head. Her remains were found the following January by a hunter deep in the woods near the settlement of Gerty, in Hughes County, twenty-seven miles from Ada and far from any place that had been searched.
~ John Grisham
That's enough. Phyllis is planning to retire too, and we want to travel the world. I'm tired of Sterling, Florida, and she's tired of Mobile. We have no kids to keep us grounded, so why not take off somewhere? Spend some of our Indian money.
~ John Grisham
thought, a tour was just what
~ John Grisham
Denny and Rooker were watching too. They had traced the North Carolina license plates on Mercer's car and done the background. They knew her name, recent employment history, current lodging at the Lighthouse Inn, publishing résumé, and partial ownership of the beach
~ John Grisham
By chasing the wrong suspect, the police and prosecutors had allowed the real killer's trail to grow cold. He has yet to be found.
~ John Grisham
Scat Man Doo and his trusty Shit Stick had gone where no man had ever gone before. And none should ever go again.
~ John Grogan
Mary arrived at Inverness only to find that the captain of the castle
~ John Guy
Everybody's got a river inside, he said. Always something under the surface.
~ Unknown
Its home is in the world; and to know what it is, we must seek it in the world, and hear the world's witness of it.
~ John Henry Newman