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Quotes About Discovery

If you don't already know about jazz music, how would you be exposed? How would get an opportunity to find out if it spoke to you? If you get exposed to it enough, you might find a taste for it.
~ Esperanza Spalding
Chilli ice cream doesn't taste bad. But I wouldn't eat it again.
~ Boman Irani
On some subconscious level, I've been prejudiced against turnips, parsnips, swedes and other roots. Do they taste of much? Are they really special? How wrong I was.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
I moved to L.A. after my landlord in Brooklyn tripled my rent. I spent months looking for other places to move to in New York, then one day I was in California eating a grapefruit, and I was like, 'This is what they taste like?' So I decided to move to L.A. and build a studio in my house.
~ Dave Sitek
I spent a lot of time at my grandparents in the school holidays, and the only books in the house were a copy of the Bible and Agatha Christie's 'Murder at the Vicarage.' I developed a taste for murder mysteries and then later discovered libraries, second-hand bookshops, and jumble sales.
~ Val McDermid
I don't hate on the whole EDM thing happening in America because, although the music is not of my taste - a little bit brash for me - I think it's also introducing a lot of young people to dance music, and then they're discovering better dance music through it.
~ Jamie xx
I thought it was crazy for people to eat dirt until I actually tasted it. I really liked it!
~ Cynthia Bailey
I'll eat anything. I ate antelope once in Swaziland. I didn't know what it was until I'd started chewing it. Everything tastes like chicken though doesn't it? It wasn't bad.
~ Nicholas Hoult
My musical tastes - I'm always searching for new things. I know a lot of people say they listen to everything, but I kind of do.
~ Lzzy Hale
My musical tastes were horrendous. I was just listening to whatever was on the radio. I wasn't being nourished musically at all.
~ Natalia Lafourcade
I think I was eight or nine when I had my first long-form tasting menu.
~ Dominique Crenn
I can remember tasting cheese and onion crisps when they first came on the market - they were the most amazing thing ever.
~ Dave Myers
Tasting food, thinking about it, talking about it, and deciding whether it can be better is the crux of my job - and my life. So when I discovered a tasting spoon that felt better in my hand, a touch softer against my bottom lip, and that stood a little taller on my counter, there was no going back.
~ Chris Morocco
My career is like an artichoke. People might think that the leaves are tasty and buttered up and delicious, and they don't even know that there's something magical hidden at the base of it. There's a whole other side of me that people didn't know existed.
~ Katy Perry
I did not always know I was gonna get tattoos.
~ Lil Peep
The history taught in our schools is scandalous. We grew up believing that Columbus actually discovered America. We still celebrate Columbus Day. Columbus was after one thing only - gold.
~ Woody Harrelson
This taught me a lesson, but I'm not quite sure what it is.
~ John McEnroe
We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.
~ Thor Heyerdahl
I think one of the bigger lessons the Internet has taught us is that 'niche' or 'subculture' are a lot bigger than anyone ever thought.
~ Warren Ellis
The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.
~ Carl Clinton Van Doren
I wanted to make an explicitly educational comic that taught readers the concepts I covered in my introductory programming class. That's what 'Secret Coders' is. It's both a fun story about a group of tweens who discover a secret coding school, and an explanation of some foundational ideas in computer science.
~ Gene Luen Yang
Marlo taught me things I thought I knew.
~ Phil Donahue
I have been lucky to find very good collaborators who have taught me a lot, have introduced me to several new fields of mathematics, or have shown me new insights.
~ Terence Tao
The 'Black Panther' world taught me about the importance of exfoliating.
~ Letitia Wright