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Quotes About Discovery

I'm interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
~ Pat Summitt
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we are curious—and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." WALT DISNEY
~ Pat Williams
Very few people discover their talent while snoring in a hammock. The harder you work and the more you demand of yourself, the more talent and ability you will discover. Hard work reveals talent.
~ Pat Williams
The camera is an instrument of detection…we photograph what we know and what we don't know… when I point my camera at something I am asking a question and the photograph is sometimes an answer… In other words, I am not trying to prove anything. I am the one who is getting the lesson.
~ Unknown
If I've already figured out how the book ends, why bother to finish writing it? My writing isn't terribly efficient, because I often have to backtrack a bit when I change my mind, but I like the sense of discovery that comes from not knowing what happens next.
~ Patricia Briggs
One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed. (Bone Crossed)
~ Patricia Briggs
Mercy?" "Just a minute," I told Adam. "I'm in the middle of a revelation.
~ Patricia Briggs
Even after all this time, I keep forgetting that heroes can be found in unlikely places and persons -- like mechanics who can turn into coyotes.
~ Patricia Briggs
There's something really disturbing about finding out how little you really know about something you felt like you were an expert on.
~ Patricia Briggs
He'd have to call his brother, Samuel, and tell him that he'd finally learned that his face wouldn't crack if he smiled. All it had taken to teach him was an Omega werewolf.
~ Patricia Briggs
until I met him today." He turned to Jes. "Who is the forest
~ Patricia Briggs
Jesse sucked in her breath, and said, "It's a TARDIS." "A what?" asked Aiden. "Bigger on the inside than it is on the outside," Jesse said. She
~ Patricia Briggs
What are we hunting?" Anna's voice had lost the tautness of stress. "A treasure," said Tom. "The exact nature of which is a surprise.
~ Patricia Briggs
Under the mellowing influence of good food and good music, Adam relaxed, and I discovered that underneath that overbearing, hot-tempered Alpha disguise he usually wore was a charming, overbearing, hot-tempered man. He seemed to enjoy finding out that I was as stubborn and disrespectful of authority as he'd always suspected.
~ Patricia Briggs
One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed.
~ Patricia Briggs
Kim lifted the lid. Inside, on a small pillow covered in white velvet, lay a gold sunburst the size of her thunbnail, hung on a delicate chain. It looked a little like the first spell she had ever cast, a small explosion of light re-created in metal, and she was not really surprised to find the card with the single word "Mairelon" scrawled across it.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
Really, Agatha, you might have told me." "Told you what?" Mairelon said. "That my ward was once a street thief? I didn't think it was a secret." "A street thief?" Letitia wrinkled her nose and looked at Kim with disfavor. "How horrid." "I think it is the most romantic story I have ever heard", Miss Matthews said with conviction.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
But the most important thing of all, to which she kept returning like a tongue probing a sore tooth, was the realization that she had fallen in love with her gaurdian.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
Oh!" said Cimorene. She had never met a talking frog before. "Are you an enchanted prince?" she asked a little doubtfully. "No, but I've met a couple of them, and after a while you pick up a few things," said the frog.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
I wasn't going to get anywhere if I kept avoiding things, and I might miss something important.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.
~ Patricia Cornwell
It must he him.
~ Unknown
I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.
~ Patricia Hampl
How can she learn if you don't give her the chance to experience what she can do?
~ Unknown