Quotes About Discovery

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

It was a strange, wonderful feeling. To discover eyes upon you when you expected no one to notice you at all.

Courageous people begin the journey knowing only the destination.

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.

Keep having conversations until you stop hearing new stuff.

There are some things people see in toilets that they wish they hadn't. What Trevor Hawkins sees might even cost him his life.

Rob Lloyd Jones

That's North America," I said, recognizing the shape of the land mass. "And that's Britain there." "Britain? Jake, that's impossible." Pan swam closer. "The Ancient Egyptians didn't know about these places.

there's a silent voice in the wilderness that we hear only when no one else is around. When you go far, far beyond, out across the netherlands of the Known, the din of human static slowly fades away, over and out.

When I was a junior, my school introduced badminton, which was clearly a P.E. department ploy to get me away from the wrestling room, and it worked, since the first time I played badminton was like the first time I tasted sushi or heard the Beatles or read Wordsworth. This was a sport? This counted for gym requirements?

When you want to start living, what do you do? How do you start? Where do you go?

There was an empty house on the other side of this drive, and I had no idea what it would be like to try to go inside it. There was nobody there. I wasn't driving back home—just back.

As your life grows longer, and your memory gets fuller, The Beatles come with you, and mutate along the way. They define the extremes of your memory; they are with you when you are just discovering music, too young to know better, and they remain with you, on top of all the other heart noise crowding your chemistry, when you are supposedly too old for surprises.

Unless some long-lost trove of letters or ' a forgotten diary turns up, I believe that we probably .now know.all

McPherson. It was from William F. Cody. I pried open the lid, and a very unpleasant

By 1849, when news of the discovery of gold in California reached the East, Isaac Cody was a solid citizen of his community. In 1847 he contracted with William F. Brackenridge to clear a six-hundred-acre farm on the Wapsipinicon River.

being in a room (or warehouse or store) full of books. I love the thrill of discovering

horseback for twenty days-and, incidentally,

being in a room (or warehouse or store) full of books. I love the thrill of discovering a new writer. I love seeing a finished book in my hands-a book that came to me

In every moment, we're sailing on oceans where wonders are not just the exception; they are the rule.

Errors carry the keys to your salvation.

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

One point is that strangeness usually takes an unexpected form, it is no good looking for something strange. It only happens when you're not looking.