Quotes About Discovery

What the hell kind of family did I marry into?

This is my family. I found it, all on my own. It's little, and broken, but still good. Yeah, still good.

In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent.

When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family.

Family is the last and greatest discovery. It is our last miracle.

Truths are the last thing you learn about your family. By the time you learn, you're no longer their child.

You learn to read in kindergarten or first grade, and suddenly there's this other world that isn't your family or your school or your friends. It's something else.

I also discovered that I was a poet. From the standpoint of one's family this is probably a regrettable discovery.

I'm interested to go other places, I've been the boy in the bubble since we've been shooting, I need to go travel a little bit, see where the action is, other than going to see family, of course.

The one-liner of this movie [ The Hollars], you've probably heard before: 'A guy goes home to his family and finds out about himself.

I have a great family by the way, but you need to find people who can pull something out from you that might be otherwise unseen.

I started modeling when I was 13 or 14, I think. We were on the Métro in Paris on a family holiday, and somebody came up to me and asked me to be a model, and that's how it started.

The magic of a jewel and the mystery of a book never end!

I found out I was pregnant seven days after my wedding. I was on honeymoon with my family.

I believe that we are always attracted to what we need most an instinct leading us towards the persons who are to open new vistas in our lives and fill them with new knowledge.

The thing that interests me most about family history is the gap between the things we think we know about our families and the realities.

I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.

Every island to a child is a treasure island.

Sometimes we seek that which we are not yet ready to find.

Much of good science and perhaps all of great science has its roots in fantasy.

Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?

Imagine my delight and awe when I discovered such a thing was a real genre - contemporary fantasy or urban fantasy. It was like having my birthday twice in one week and cookie dough for breakfast.

What is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons?

Anything worth anything can be found in books.