Quotes About Discovery

When a boy's first romantic interlude is with Phoebe the Dog-Faced Girl, he feels a need to get out into the world and find a new life.

American slavery at its beginnings—obscure, distant, and tragic—is probably for most people a less attractive point of focus than the story of the discovery and political founding of the American nation. If you like your history heroic—and many people seem to—the story of slavery in the early American period is simply not the place to go looking for heroes, at least not among the people most commonly written about. Second

American slavery at its beginnings—obscure, distant, and tragic—is probably for most people a less attractive point of focus than the story of the discovery and political founding of the American nation. If you like your history heroic—and many people seem to—the story of slavery in the early American period is simply not the place to go looking for heroes, at least not among the

I swung the door open and relaxed. She wasn't there. I stepped in and shut the door behind me. I had promised God I wouldn't touch anything. I'd just look at what was lying around. If Jane Eyre had only looked around a little, she might have saved herself a lot of heartache.

WHAT HAPPENED TO IGGY ONCE HE GOT HOME

He pointed to a door.

bottom of the sea," whispered Ivy. Bean

Annie Barrows

It takes time to see the desert; you have to keep looking at it. When you've looked long neough, you realise the blank wastes of sand and rock are teemming with life. Just as you can keep looking at a person and suddenly realise that the way you see them has completely changed: from being a stranger, they've gradually revealed themselves as someone with a wealth of complexities and surprising subtleties that you're growing to love.

It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.

I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

If we find the Achilles' heel," Teller told me, "thank God we found the Achilles' heel after $2 million instead of after $20 million.

TED Talk, "The Pursuit of Ignorance.") In the book and the talk, Firestein

il y a un chimpanzé sur l'autel, il se révèle ensuite être un ours.

Aveam privilegiul de a trai inca de la inceput, in mod constant, pe deplin constienta, ceea ce intotdeauna sfarsesti prin a descoperi cu stupoare si descumpanire, barbatul pe care-l iubesti este un strain.

All'inizio ho creduto che avrei scritto in fretta. In realtà passo molto tempo a interrogarmi sull'ordine delle cose da dire, la scelta e la disposizione delle parole, come se esistesse un ordine ideale, l'unico capace di restituire una verità su mia madre – ma non so in cosa consista –, e nel momento in cui scrivo non conta nient'altro per me che la scoperta di quell'ordine.

Questa maniera di scrivere, che mi pare andare nella direzione della verità, mi aiuta a uscire dalla solitudine e dall'oscurità del ricordo individuale tramite la scoperta di un significato più generale. Ma sento che qualcosa in me oppone resistenza, vorrei conservare di mia madre delle immagini puramente affettive, il calore o le lacrime, senza dar loro un senso.

Materia had been just six when they docked in Sydney Harbour and her father said, 'Look. This is the New World. Anything is possible here.' She's been too young to realize that he was talking to her brother.

how can we know all the possibilities in an infinite universe?

Someday, someone will walk into your life and make you realize why it never worked out with anyone else.

The shinbone is a device for finding furniture in a dark room.

Art is an adventure that never seems to end.

I didn't start thinking about what I wanted to do professionally until I was 17. I was a hippie, but I did write.

I frequently have scenes that take place in places I've never been or characters who have professions that I know nothing about that I've got to research. But that's what Google is for.