Quotes About Discovery

I have to find a boat. Somehow.

Most days it's just stumbling around in the dark with the rest of creation, smashing into things and wondering why it hurts.

I think I was fourteen before I found out that Ivan wasn't your middle name.' Miles cut himself off. That-idiot-Ivan was beginning a lifetime of Imperial service tomorrow.

Mikkel grinned. Bree made a mistake. I'll find her yet!

Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book.

With the opposable thumb our ancestors made weapons, harnessed fire, fashioned tools and implements, created works of art, and hitch-hiked.

Oh look! I'm one of those!

In one hot afternoon in the Iraqi desert while he waited for the calvary to ride in and listened to the enemy get closer, he had found something he hadn't expected to find. There, buried in a hole, he had held a woman, and somehow that woman had slipped inside his soul.

Was James Dawg Mackay aware Johnny was also the biological son of his father, your brother Chandler Mackay?

The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.

We have joined the caravan, you might say, at a certain point; we will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in a lifetime see all that we would like to see or learn all that we hunger to know.

Every man contains within himself a ghost continent.

Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in the ooze along the tideline, though no one notices. The world is fixed, we say: fish in the sea, birds in the air. But in the mangrove swamps by the Niger, fish climb trees and ogle uneasy naturalists who try unsuccessfully to chase them back to the water. There are things still coming ashore.

Distraction Slow Ride

Ideen braucht man nur, wenn man nichts erlebt

Oh, my," said Fletcher, and not knowing exactly what to do with the proof of an alien visit, he scratched it.

Love is a fever, she said. And when you come out of it you'll discover whether you've been lucky - or not.

All of life seems to me a strange dream about losing things you never had to begin with. About trying to find your glasses when you can't see because you don't have your glasses on.

Try to figure out what has made your life go wrong. It is like trying to figure out what is stinking up the refrigerator. It could be anything. The lid off the mayonnaise, Uncle Ron's honey wine four years in the left corner. Broccoli yellowing, flowering fast. They are all metaphors. They are all problems.

Let's make our own way,' says the Mother, 'and not in this boat.

We all go Do, Re, Mi, but you've gotta find all the other notes yourself.

Here was the thing about traveling down an uncharted river: You could only say how long you'd been traveling; you could never say how long it would be.

Moreover, since man cannot of himself discover God and know Him, it was necessary that God should reveal Himself. Without such a self-revelation on the part of God it would be utterly impossible for man to enter into religious relationship to Him. God did reveal Himself, and in His self-revelation determined the worship and service that is well-pleasing to Him.

A journey is time suspended.