Quotes About Discovery

Kolik malých Å¡tÄ›stí jsem ztratil hledáním velkého Å¡tÄ›stí.

Sometimes I feel as though I were a diver who had ventured a little beyond the limits of safe travel under the sea and had entered the strange zone where one is said to enjoy the rapture of the deep.

I was a newly created Negro who must go out that door and live in a world unfamiliar to me.

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties. (Interview in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews , Eighth Series, ed. George Plimpton, 1988)

Almost everyone is dying to leave home, eventually; and almost everyone needs to.

Behind every journey is a reason

There's nothing so confusing as finding out that you don't know someone you thought you knew.

in the hospital, Jenny Fields felt she was making up for lost time; she was discovering that people weren't much more mysterious, or much more attractive, than clams.

The student and the teacher had contrasting ideas about the sentence, which was: "There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Jack realized that when you're happy – especially when it's the first time in your life – you think of things that would never have occurred to you when you were unhappy.

In schools—even in good schools, like Exeter—they tend to teach the shorter books by the great authors; at least they begin with those. Thus it was Billy Budd, Sailor that introduced me to Melville, which led me to the library, where I discovered Moby Dick on my own.

They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other. That

What a power I had discovered! I felt certain I could refill those bleacher seats—one day, I was sure, I could "see" everyone who'd been there; I could find that special someone my mother had waved to, at the end.

But you don't see with hindsight in a first draft. You have to finish the first draft to see what you've missed.

If your first day of school, like your first tattoo, is a pilgrim experience—well, here was Jack's.

You're the biggest secret I know...The only way I know what's going on with you is the only way everyone else knows it. I just have to wait and read your next book.

William was quite the hand at Couperin's Messe pour les couvents, too, and Alice had been right about the Christmas section from Handel's Messiah. As for the seduced parishioner, the military man's young wife, Jack's mother told him little—only enough that the boy assumed his father hadn't been asked to leave Kastelskirken for flubbing a refrain.

Adolescence. Is it the first time in life we discover that we have something terrible to hide from those who love us?

I later found a bookstore on the Calle de Gravina—Libros, I believe it was called. (I'm not kidding, a bookstore called "Books.")

If you're fortunate enough to discover a way of life that you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

no planning, Graff--that's the first thing. No mapping it out, no dates to get anywhere, no dates to get back. Just think of things! Think of mountains, say, or think of beaches. Think of rich widows and farm girls! Then just point to where you feel they'll be, and pick the roads the same way too--pick them for the curves and hills. That's the second thing--to pick roads that the beast will love.

All this had happened since Ben's arrival from... where? She still didn't know. Unbelievable.

There was life in outer space, but you didn't want to get it on you.

in 1790, had discovered a population nearing four million, of which, he reported in a dour aside, almost seven hundred thousand were slaves.