Quotes About Discovery

Travel is intensified living … and one of the last great sources of legal adventure.

Fear is for people who don't get out very much.

Regardless of your journey, you can put a little pilgrim in your travels and find your own personal jubilation.

The paranormal is so inherently fascinating that for any valid conclusions to be reached from investigation, a searching and objective skepticism must leaven the desire to discover wonders.

I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.

Do what you haven't done is the key, I think.

Some Neanderthal had the magical idea of blowing through a reed ... to entertain the children one night in a cave somewhere. Then, in a blink of an eye ... civilization.

The texts we write are not visible until they are written. Like a creature coaxed from out a deep wood, the text reveals itself little by little.

Uncertainty was a sacrament and the quest for miles meant that we'd never know where or how we'd end the day.

Platte River Road Narratives

This became our creed, almost a religious faith. Nobody knows and we would have to figure everything out ourselves

Until you become different, you have not found yourself.

I write for the girl I once was, who found paradise in the pages of a book and pure music in the characters' voices . . .

Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.

The First Book: Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable, really. You see, it keeps on opening. You may fall in. Sure, it's hard to get started; remember learning to use knife and fork? Dig in: you'll never reach bottom. It's not like it's the end of the world -- just the world as you think you know it.

The First Book Open it. Go ahead, it won't bite. Well. . . maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable, really. You see, it keeps on opening. You may fall in. Sure, it's hard to get started; remember learning to use knife and fork? Dig in: you'll never reach bottom. It's not like it's the end of the world-- just the world as you think you know it.

Since she's discovered men would rather drown than nibble, she does just fine.

But I'm not running away. I'm running toward... toward adventure, toward discovery, toward diversity. And while I was in Mexico I discovered something intruiging: Once I leave the U.S., I am not bound by the rules of my culture. And when I am a foreigner in another country, I am exempt from the local rules. This extraordinary situation means that there are no rules in my life. I am free to live by the standards and ideals and rules I create for myself.

And of course, customers are notorious for being unable to articulate a need until they are shown how it can be met.

explained what he'd found.

There it was, hidden in alphabetical order.

Progress depends on our brain. The most important part of our brain, that which is neocortical, must be used to help others and not just to make discoveries.

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.