Quotes About Discovery

Juno MacGuff: I don't know what kind of girl I am.

I have heard people bewailing man's landing on the moon, as though before it was touched by an astronaut's foot it was made of silver or mother-of-pearl, and that footprint turned it into gray dust. But the moon never was made of mother-of-pearl, and it still shines as if it were so made.

It was like removing layers of crumpled brown paper from an awkwardly shaped parcel, and revealing the attractive present which it contained.

To our young selves, though, there is no difference between the small questions and the big ones. We follow our curiosity to the edge of our understanding and then ask whoever is around what lies beyond it. I have spent my adult life fighting to keep what I possessed as a child: the ability to see the biggest questions sitting inside the smallest ones and the willingness to try to answer them.

I learned new things about myself, about God, about life—all of it possible only because I was fired. I feel thankful.

Conversion is not a single prayer. Conversion is pilgrimage.

But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination.

Incluso en mi niñez lo tuve prohibido, y aunque a veces subía por los tejados y miraba a través de la ventana lo que mis antepasados habían guardado en esa oscura habitación nunca supe lo que se ocultaba. Ahora estoy allí, y nadie me ha detenido.

Across the sea and up the stair The Wild Poppy's everywhere. Though southmen search until they're blind They know not what they seek to find.

Hey, Mom and Dad, this is my "friend" Jamie. My boyfriend Jamie. We're going to England together. Also, I met him in a secret society. We're Diggers,folks. And Eli graduates. And in love.What do you think?

It was amazing, all the thoughts that oozed out as soon as a single crack appeared in the surface of your beliefs.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

There was nothing to do but wait. It is always like this for naturalists, and for poets--the long hours of travel and preparation, and then the longer hours of waiting. All for that one electric, pulse-revving vision when the universe suddenly declares itself.

My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize. — Diane Arbus, Revelations (Random House, 2003)

It's important to take bad pictures. It's the bad ones that have to do with what you've never done before. They can make you recognize something you hadn't seen in a way that will make you recognize it when you see it again.

What's left after what one isn't is taken away is what one is.

Captain's log, Stardate 9529.1. This is the final cruise of the Starship Enterprise under my command. This ship and her history will shortly become the care of another crew. To them and their posterity will we commit our future. They will continue the voyages we have begun and journey to all the undiscovered countries, boldly going where no man … where no one has gone before." Captain James Kirk Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

I also needed to educate myself to North Carolina

master. "There's the Shenandoah," Janine said, after they'd been flying about half an hour.

Dylan Geer! Why would you…oh, you must

Footsteps in the snow suggest where you have been, point to where you were going: but when they suddenly vanish, never dismiss the possibility of flight...

The best moment for a box of chocolates was before you bit into one. Once you knew it was coconut, the magic was over.

When you're looking for someone, you're looking for some aspect of yourself, even if you don't know it. What we're searching for is what we lack.