Quotes About Discovery

They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind. - Nabi

It is a question of discovering a truth which is truth for me, of finding the idea for which I am willing to live and die.

Man has made a discovery ... the way to make life easy is to make it meaningless.

Imagine a sentence as a hall with a series of doors. Each door is a possible way to use what you've already written to generate new material.

Robert Frost said, "No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.

Today I found a twenty in the red-lined pocket of my wool coat. There's no twenty-dollar bill in the red lining of my uterus.

That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him.

Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea.

Rows and rows of books lined the shelves...full of ideas and images, worlds imagined, worlds perceived; full of fingerprints and sudden laughter and the sighs of readers...

Writing is always a process of discovery - I never know the end,or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There is a constant interplay between the imagining and shaping of the story.

The year was 1922, and the Curies had transformed plain earth into something rare and unimagined. A secret of the universe has been revealed, and a restless world dreamed of transformation. [p. 205]

It was like standing on a threshold, a door in the world that would open into a place you'd never expected to be, a place from which you couldn't return. Welcome or unwelcome, knowledge was something you could never undo.

Nothing is so hard that it can't be found by searching.

Happiness was happiness wherever you found it.

How did you find me? he said, anger creasing his brow. I pushed his hair back to run a finger over the scar Al had given him. How do you think? He knows when you are sleeping, he knows when you're awake. From the corner, Al shifted his tune. So be good, or I'll rip your fucking head off

It stinks of trains and that chili with the chocolate in it. Ooooh, books! he exclaimed suddenly, making a beeline for the small library. (Al)

Somehow I found him. Somehow I found Al's sarcastic thoughts, bitter and old. Tired, angry, bored. Alone.

The zeal of the stupid in her, Chris began turning pages as if it were the winter solstice gift catalog, earmarking pages and cooing in delight at the new possibilities.

Nil tam difficile est quin quaerendo investigari possit.

Nothing is so hard that it can't be found by searching.

Join us next time for Days of the Undead when Rachel learns her long lost brother is really a crown prince from outer space. My life was so screwed up.

a few false turns, we found ourselves looking

None of us know our real names.

We have come a long way, we have a long way to go. In between we are somewhere.