Quotes About Discovery

Libraries are where it all begins.

I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.

Going into Beijing I was like 'what's a Paralympics?'

I believed in Santa Claus until I was 12!

Saved by the Bell' in space would be so great.

I went to Los Angeles for acting, and I thought that's where I wanted to go, and I found out that I didn't belong there.

I'm attracted to stories of people who don't belong together, who embark on something and find themselves in places they don't belong.

Mars does not belong to 'America,' nor to Earth, nor to human beings.

I know when I was growing up, I was always lost and just thought I was alone and that I needed to find where I belonged.

Audiences want to see something interesting. It doesn't matter which genre or period it belongs to.

But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way only to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind.

The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

People don't get it. He didn't even have a fuckin' map; what kind of idiot? THAT was the point. There's no blank spots on the map anymore, anywhere on earth. If you want a blank spot on the map, you gotta leave the map behind.

Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. That's why people discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves, that's why they write symphonies..

Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around be nomadic, make each day a new horizon. -Chris McCandless

In coming to Alaska, McCandless yearned to wander uncharted country, to find a blank spot on the map. In 1992, however, there were no more blank spots on the map—-not in Alaska, not anywhere. But Chris, with his idiosyncratic logic, came up with an elegant solution to this dilemma: He simply got rid of the map. In his own mind, if nowhere else, the terra would thereby remain incognita.

Antarctica has this mythic weight. It resides in the collective unconscious of so many people, and it makes this huge impact, just like outer space. It's like going to the moon.

But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way only to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind. Thomas F. Hornbein

He] seemed like a kid who was looking for something, looking for something, just didn't know what it was. I was like that once, but then I realized what I was looking for: Money! Ha! Ha hyah, hooh boy! (pg.43)

I wondered if I had not come a long way only to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind.

There is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

There was loneliness, too, as the sun set, but only rarely now did doubts return. Then I felt sinkingly as if my whole life lay behind me. Once on the mountain I knew (or trusted) that this would give way to total absorption with the task at hand. But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way only to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind.

Jack London es el Rey Alexander Supertramp Mayo 1992 [Inscripción

The boy unmasked the gaping void in Franz's life even as he helped fill it.