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Quotes About Discovery

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.
~ Dolly Parton
Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew?
~ Sigmund Freud
I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.
~ Eugenio Montale
To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.
~ Cary Grant
I always say that you don't have to like 'The Room', but you will discover something - maybe a tiny little thing - and say, 'Wait a minute, maybe I want to see more.'
~ Tommy Wiseau
On a sea floor that looks like a sandy mud bottom, that at first glance might appear to be sand and mud, when you look closely and sit there as I do for a while and just wait, all sorts of creatures show themselves, with little heads popping out of the sand. It is a metropolis.
~ Sylvia Earle
There is an audience for every play; it's just that sometimes it can't wait long enough to find it.
~ Shirley Booth
I loved science. Bunsen burners - I couldn't wait for an explosion!
~ Robson Green
I love the fact that it starts from there, and you don't know where it's gonna go. Wait long enough - love will find you. Everything's a surprise. When you think you've got it all figured out... as Emerson said, the dice of God are always loaded.
~ Hector Elizondo
I couldn't wait to look at someone who shared my genes. I thought my baby was going to provide a decoder key to my past. But then I looked at Pippa and realized, no, she's actually the key to my future.
~ Emily Procter
It seems extraordinary to have waited so long into one's life to have found the part that actually uses your basic rhythm. And I think that's always sort of what actors connect up with - their own sort of world.
~ Susan Sullivan
Because our generation has waited so long to have babies, we feel we've 'discovered' something that women have been doing for thousands of years. I have no illusions that I will be in the same situation as the average working mother. I'm not trying to prove anything - I just want to have kids.
~ Jane Pauley
My music is 100-percent me, so it's just who I developed into as a woman. I feel really grateful that I waited until I did because I feel like I really found who I was by doing that.
~ Banks
The work of mathematicians on 'pure' problems has often yielded ideas that have waited to be rediscovered by physicists. The work of Euclid, Apollonius and Archimedes on ellipses would be used centuries later by Kepler for his theory of planetary motion.
~ Dominic Cummings
It's a funny thing. I'll be in my home town of Columbus at a restaurant or something, and the waiter maybe asks, 'What do you do?' and I say, 'Oh, I'm in a band... Twenty One Pilots,' and he'll say, 'Cool, I'll check it out. I never heard of them.' And then I say, 'In September we're playing the Schottenstein Center,' and it's like, 'What?!'
~ Tyler Joseph
We're always waiting to discover new parts of ourselves.
~ Rose
You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared.
~ Robbie Robertson
Mars is there, waiting to be reached.
~ Buzz Aldrin
People are always waiting to be discovered.
~ Jonathan Carroll
The world is just waiting to be skated.
~ Ryan Sheckler
My advice for girls who are waiting for their Prince Charming is to be open for anything. Be open to new experiences, be open to the idea that it may take longer than you want, but if you're open to meeting new people and new adventures, then love will come along.
~ Lily Collins
When I'm by myself asking the questions that many of us do at some point in our lives, I look to the stars knowing that the answers are somewhere out there waiting to be discovered.
~ M. Shadows
Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
~ Edward de Bono