Quotes About Discovery

Y ella no tiene frío? —No, no se acuerda del frío, está como en otro mundo, ensimismada dibujando a la pantera. —Si está ensimismada no está en otro mundo. Ésa es una contradicción. —Sí, es cierto, ella está ensimismada, metida en el mundo que tiene adentro de ella misma, y que apenas si lo está empezando a descubrir.

El placer de comer] es un placer que hay que descubrir a los treinta años. Es la edad en que el ser humano deja de ser un imbécil y a cambio paga el precio de empezar a envejecer.

Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it

Me fui dando cuenta de que soñar es como caminar entre voces que flotan y pasos que resuenan. Como caminar por una ciudad que conociste y has olvidado. A veces hay esquinas donde se puede encontrar lo que has perdido. A veces algo muy lindo, otras veces algo que es mejor no recordar.

Escribir es defender la soledad en que se está; es una acción que sólo brota desde un aislamiento efectivo, pero desde un aislamiento comunicable, en que, precisamente, por la lejanía de toda cosa concreta se hace posible un descubrimiento de relaciones entre ellas. Pero es una soledad que necesita ser defendida, que es lo mismo que necesitar de justificación. El escritor defiende su soledad, mostrando lo que en ella y únicamente en ella, encuentra.

giving life back to an adolescent who would otherwise disappear forever:

We must read and reread; the relationship with a text is alive. A book that does not get old is a book from which the reader can always expect something new, in which he can always discover something, a book that thus demonstrates to him that it is forever alive, that their fates are joined and the two of them are united "for life and till death.

The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.

Having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card.

Having fun is easy when you have a library cards!

what an interesting study the world is when one is ready to leave it!

new peace and strength in my heart: "Life is your barque not your home!

One thing that is exciting about fashion is the surprise element. People don't know what they want. They just know when they see it.

Tessa caught her breath when the final string of letters appeared, sandwiching around the others, forming the words: YOU ARE ENTERING THE LAND OF LOVE

Quando procuramos no infinitamente grande um ponto infinitamente pequeno, uma fonte de luz por mais afastada que seja, quando esperamos a chegada de um som vindo do fundo do universo há apenas uma coisa de que temos a certeza absoluta: a nossa vontade de descobrir.

Não é verdade que a felicidade é aquilo que procuramos sem nunca sermos capazes de a reconhecer?

You have two lives in you, Alice. The one you know, and another one. One that has been waiting for you for a very long time. They have nothing in common, apart from you.

When we reach the point we think is the lowest, life has an unsuspected wonder in store for us: life itself.

Mia didn't know what she wanted, but she knew what she didn't want any more. The waiting, the silence, the suspicion. She wanted to rediscover her appetite for life and to stop waking up with her stomach in knots.

What you don't know about your parents is what becomes fascinating as you get older. They

Archaeological excavation of such sites has also revealed evidence of cannibalism.

If somebody asked me about my inspiration I would say that it's not the peopleand it's not the things, it's travel and experiencing different environments.

Ours was the first and will doubtless be the last party of whites to visit this profitless locale. —Lieutenant Joseph Christmas Ives, on sailing up the Colorado River to a point near the present location of Las Vegas, in 1857

One has to look out for engineers—they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.