Quotes About Discovery

Games have always presented an opportunity to escape. But they are also an opportunity to go somewhere that you come to know well.

Having presented a few travel shows, I have become less lazy on holiday; it has encouraged me to go out and explore.

An album, for me, is not just a commercial product. It's about presenting a world to people, for them to explore and enjoy. How they do that is up to them.

I've always wanted to try presenting and see what it was like, and you know, it could be a huge mistake.

Reading feeds writing: it presents you with new ideas to engage with.

I don't want to be an artist; I don't really want to sing - though I do sing on a few songs. But I want to be the guy that presents new music from both new artists and established artists at the same time.

Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.

The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.

In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.

There's a lot about the early history of salt that isn't known, including who first used it and when or how it was discovered that it preserved food. We were sort of handed, in history, this world where everyone knew about salt. And it's not clear exactly how that developed.

The Cannes Film Festival is the biggest, most prestigious film festival in the world. This is where filmmakers are discovered, where futures are made, and the most important films premiered.

Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. They are looking for delight.

Everyone wants to pretend like they sprang out of the ground with an Animal Collective record in their hands and a David Bowie haircut, and that's just not the case. You discover these things gradually.

I try to get into a headspace where I pretend like this is the first time Im ever hearing this song, and I get into that and I just try to discover it. I found that if I really put my head in that space then I can get into it. I can discover it all over again.

Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.

When I was, like, 12, I remember grabbing a mic, pretending it was a guitar, and performing in front of my friends. I didn't know at the time I wanted to be an artist.

Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go where it takes me. I had to go to the Bohemian Grove. It was the obvious end to the book.

Life is a pretty awesome ride.

I was a pretty good imitator of Roy Acuff, but then I found out they already had a Roy Acuff, so I started singin' like myself.

Yes, I've had some pretty good luck finding wonderful talent.

I actually think the chances that we'll find E.T. are pretty good.

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.

I discovered I'm 60 per cent Viking. Well, more Danish, I suppose. I'm also two-and-a-half per cent Neanderthal.

I've been in the Concorde, I've seen the curvature of the Earth, the beginning of the darkness. I want more - I want to go up there.