Quotes About Discovery

One word I would banish from the dictionary is 'escape.' Just banish that and you'll be fine. Because that word has been misused regarding anybody who wanted to move away from a certain spot and wanted to grow. He was an escapist. […] You have a right to experiment with your life.

And oh, someday, what a treat you will have when you read Thiess . . . Frank Thiess.

There are things one reads that make you aware that you have lived nothing, felt nothing, experienced nothing up to that time.

En voyage, j'absorbe tout et l'ajoute à moi-même.

Making new friends and partners, mid-life, is the greatest thing in the world. Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

The Lawrence book excited me too.

Discovering a new street in Paris, or a new café, is much more interesting to me than visiting an old château or cathedral in some godforsaken hamlet.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born

Don't wait for it," I said. "Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. Create. And then the love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened to me." "I feel doomed to

I study you so much to discover the possible flaws, the weak points, the danger zones. I don't find them—not any. That means I am in love, blind, blind. To be blind forever! (Now they're singing "Heaven and Ocean" from La Gioconda.)

I want to make my own discoveries…….penetrate the evil which attracts me

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.

Warmth, perfume, rugs, soft lights, books. They do not appease me. I am aware of time passing, of all the world contains that I have not seen, of all the interesting people I have not met.

Think of it as a blind date. All you initially have in common at the bottom is the reason you're there, the top of the mountain.

I began going through dozens of boxes stored away in her apartment and her art studio. They were filled with journals, and documents, and letters. She saved everything. Handwritten notes from her aunt Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and schoolbooks my grandfather Reginald Vanderbilt doodled in as a child. I found old wills and financial records, and as I read the contents of these files stained by time and mold, I began to hear the voices of those people I never knew.

Will it be here that we shall find a place which will not elude us, or which if it remains does not exert on us a culpable attraction? Or must we, leaning over the deck and watching the shores glide by, move forever onward?

El hombre no puede descubrir nuevos océanos a menos que tenga el coraje de perder de vista la costa.

We who would seek new land must be willing to sacrifice the sight of shore for a long, long time.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has courage to lose sight of the shore

I was still filled as before with an evil curiosity. There was a mystery about the existence of each one of them. I always felt that a part of their lives was concealed. What did they do when I was not there? I refused to believe that they had not better ways of amusing themselves. And I credited each of them with a secret which I pertinaciously tried to discover.

while the scholar seeks, the artist finds;

Con hãy g?ng ti?n vào, qua khung cá»­a h?p, vì cá»­a rá»™ng và ???ng thênh thang d?n ??n nÆ¡i tai h?a, Ä'á»…n chá»— tr?m luân, có bi?t bao k? Ä'ã Ä'i qua r?i, nhÆ°ng nh? h?p má»›i là khung cá»­a, là con ???ng d?n tá»›i ??i S?ng, và r?t ít k? tìm ra.

Une autre chose que j'ignorais, plus importante encore peut-être, c'est que j'étais d'une santé très délicate.

Partons! et ne nous arrêtons que n'importe où!...