Quotes About Discovery

Kendime kendim kadar yak?n hissettiÄŸim oysa sadece kitaplardan ve hayallerden bildiÄŸim bu topraklar? tan?may? öyle arzuluyordum ki!

At the bottom of the Atlantic there is a book.

At every stage of the journey you arrive somewhere and with every step you can discover a hidden facet of our planet.

you do not arrive only at your destination. At every stage of the journey you arrive somewhere and with every step you can discover a hidden facet of our planet. All you have to do is look, wish, believe and love.

The clear-headed will see the striking gain I've made since I did find a woman, in the real world, whose life was connected up with mine and mine with hers before we knew anything about each other.

You will write … if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting.

Highest miracle is to discover who you are – the ultimate possibility.

what does the computer know of the comforting weight of a book in one's lap? Or of the excitement that comes from finding a set of books, dusty and tucked away in the back corner of some store? The computer can only reproduce the information in a book, and never the joyful experience of reading it.

I now believe that all journeys are ridiculous: the only journey from which you don't always come back empty-handed is the journey inside yourself.

Finding out that you are wrong is even more valuable than being right, because you are learning.

Conflict, in the Bridgewater culture, is conducted in the service of finding "what is true and what to do about it.

Jim purchased a brand-new book called How to Fix Damn Near Anything. In horror I discovered a $15.95 price tag on the inside of the jacket. Upon interrogation he confessed that he purchased it at the thrift shop for $.25.

If we can learn to wait through the "natural silences" of life, he liked to say, we will be surprised by what awaits us on the other side.

This place spoke to something deep inside her. She was drawn to the water as if she'd lived her whole life here, as if it were a part of her she'd been missing. She filled her lungs with the salty air, and a calm settled over her.

To get a true sense of the book, I have to spend a few moments inside. I'll glance at the first couple pages, then flip around to somewhere in the middle, see if the language matches me somehow. It's like dating, only with sentences......It could be something as simple yet weirdly potent as a single word (tangerine). We're meant to be, that sentence and me. And when it happens, you just know.

I just learned the German word fernweh, sort of a cousin to wanderlust; it means "far-sickness, an ache for distance." Penny

He just cleaned the bathroom." "So?" "I've been sending samples into the lab when I got bored. They are as of yet unidentified. It never occurred to me to clean the damned thing." Whiskey sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose. "I know, I know, I know—you don't want to get blood all over it now that it's clean.

Malcolm chuckled wickedly. "You, my American friend, are like a hidden landmine of sex appeal. I'm going to have to look out for you." "Too late." Owen raised his face to the unfamiliar smells, breezes, sounds of the city, enjoying them even more now that he knew something of it and it had become personal to him. "I've already exploded. You're caught." He tilted his head back and laughed, inviting Malcolm to share the joke, but Malcolm was unusually quiet.....

Twenty-eight years, Kenny," Will panted. "Twenty-eight years thinking sex was for the lucky and the brave. Then I find out I can close my eyes, think of you, and become a frickin' god—now c'mon and make me a god!

I wanna see it all. I wanna see bears and deer and elk and birds and eagles and hawks and fish. I wanna see a hawk catch a fish while dive-bombing a deer. I wanna feed one of my little sisters to something bigger'n me. It's gonna be like frickin' Christmas, and I want you to be there.

How were we supposed to know we'd meet our one perfect person learning how to pick pockets by the Coliseum?" "I should have spent ten years convincing you," Felix said savagely.

I would follow you to the edge of the galaxy just to watch you make a 720 off the Crab Nebula.

What the hell is that?" The drill sergeant almost mumbled to himself. "I've never seen that piece of metal before in my life….

Magic is always there. Sometimes it just takes an artist to find it and show the rest of us where to look.