Quotes About Discovery

I've gotten to see the world and play music with my friends.

Oh, I was a real Nirvana kid. I got into jazz because I listened to a lot of metal, Megadeth and that, and those guys play really fast and are virtuosos. I wanted to learn more about it, and I discovered that a lot of jazz guys played really fast, too.

I am playing in a playground that's already been played in. I am always aware that a lot of the furniture in science fiction is second hand.

I didn't know I wanted to be a gymnast; I was just introduced to the gym. I loved the place because it looked like a hi-tech playground with mats and a lot of things I can hang from.

My playground growing up was the fields and forests.

Listening to my dad playing guitar along to 'Sleepwalk' by the Shadows was probably the first time I discovered emotion in music.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.

When I was about 6, my cousin was very active in a Filipino repertory company, doing musicals and plays. Her aunt was one of the founders of the company, and she told my mom that there were these auditions for 'The King and I,' and that they needed kids. I auditioned, got in and the love affair started from there and just kept going.

I got into plays in high school then I ended up going to college for it.

I started writing and acting in these little plays and then I was discovered by Dustin Hoffman. He got me my first audition for a film he was in, called 'I Heart Huckabees.'

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

I'm astonished to say, but people are really pleased to hear what happened to me, the way I got a little bit more confident, the people I've met, and the things I didn't know.

One of the things I sort of dreamt about awhile ago is that if Einstein were still alive, it would be absolutely wonderful to go to him and tell him about the discovery, and he would have been very pleased, I'm sure of that.

Find one note on the instrument that pleases you, and then find another note that also pleases you.

My favorite songs of all time are songs that take you on a journey and give you pleasurable moments you weren't expecting.

It just seemed hedonistic when I first started acting. It was a pleasurable thing. But as I look back on it now, I understand that it was a journey of the self for me.

You want your mind to be boggled. That is a pleasure in and of itself. And it's more a pleasure if it's boggled by something that you can then demonstrate is really, really true.

I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y'know, just see where roads lead.

It's always a pleasure to find something that matters.

I'm very happy that I got introduced to music only as something you got pleasure from.

The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need.

We all need a bit of mystery in our lives, and rivers offer plenty of that.

There are plenty of people on Earth. It's not like the human race is going to disappear if a few people don't come back. Exploration is dangerous.