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Quotes About Discovery

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
~ Hannah Arendt
Dreams are where we visit the many lands and landscapes of human possibility and discover the one where we feel at home. The great religious leaders were all dreamers.
~ Jonathan Sacks
Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.
~ Edmund White
I always feel with a vintage shop they've picked the best bits to show you whereas with charity shops you can find a real gem. My mum is amazing at it, she has hawk eyes, so I go with her and follow her lead!
~ Alice Levine
When religious believers invoke miracles and acts of creation ex nihilo, that is the end of the search for them, whereas for scientists, the identification of such mysteries is only the beginning. Science picks up where theology leaves off.
~ Michael Shermer
Aang was an airbending prodigy, but didn't even discover he could bend the other three elements on his own; whereas Korra was bending three of the elements at age four.
~ Bryan Konietzko
Wherever the fish are, that's where we go.
~ Richard Wagner
I always go thrift shopping wherever I am.
~ Borns
I love to travel, anywhere in the world. Wherever it is... India... Tibet... wherever. I'll go anywhere.
~ Guillermo del Toro
The Jumble Shop would be one place where we'd sometimes accumulate down in the Village. I think it might be just a place that's unknown that was right around the corner from wherever it was that we met.
~ Lee Krasner
Greece has got something like 1,400 islands. There is so much of Greece you can't know even if you're Greek. It's sprinkled out all around the edge of the Aegean, all over the place. It's already a secret place wherever you go, even if it's somewhere huge like Athens or Corinth. The place enchanted me.
~ Joanna Lumley
I'm still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it.
~ Jim Dale
Wherever I go, I'm watching. Even on vacation, when I'm in an airport or a railroad station, I look around, snap pictures, and find out how people do things.
~ Richard Scarry
I go wherever the good story is.
~ Julia Garner
Wherever I am in the world, I never get Sunday night blues. I suppose it's because I've never worked at any one thing long enough to start hating it.
~ Hayley Mills
Wherever I go in the world, I put aside several days to go visit the stores.
~ Theo Paphitis
You always have to look for something beautiful wherever you go.
~ David Thewlis
Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.
~ Caprice Bourret
Close your eyes and place your finger on a map. Wherever it lands, that's the theme of the evening. So many times we settle for routine dishes. This forces you to try new cuisines.
~ Mario Batali
I walk wherever my errands take me.
~ Rebecca Solnit
I realized I had a novel on my hands, but didn't know where it was going to go. So I thought, 'I'm going to do everything that you're not supposed to do when you plan a novel; I'm going to step back and let this thing take itself wherever it wants to go, and I'm not going to worry about how things connect until later on.'
~ Hari Kunzru
Now, to find dinosaurs, you hike around in horrible conditions looking for a dinosaur. It sounds really dumb, but that's what it is. It's horrible conditions, because wherever you have nice weather, plants grow, and you don't get any erosion, and you don't see any dinosaurs.
~ Nathan Myhrvold
As a writer, you look for inspiration wherever you can get it.
~ Michael Connelly
I have been performing as long as I can remember, so I built my craft. People think I was discovered after the first show I played once I landed in L.A., and it just happened instantly - overnight. The truth is, I was performing wherever I could for five years.
~ Bishop Briggs