Quotes About Discovery

The Gideon Bible was dog-eared. I opened it to its yellow silk marker and saw that Genesis 23:4 had been snipped out.

Hard roads and wide will run through Raintree County. You will hunt it on the map, and it won't be there.

The flagstone terrace overlooked a golf course. At the bottom of its green slopes lay a dazzling band of sea. Twenty or thirty miles out, a string of brown hunchbacked islands lay on the bright horizon like basking tortoises. The woman looked at the Pacific and its islands as if they belonged to her. I found out later that one of them did.

A door sprang open as if it knew Spanish

dazzling band of sea. Twenty or thirty miles out, a string of brown hunchbacked islands lay on the bright horizon like basking tortoises. The woman looked at the Pacific and its islands as if they belonged to her. I found out later that one of them did.

Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Approach a trip as a chance to collect unique experiences, not passport stamps, postcards and snapshots in front of famous monuments.

Travel is an urge best cultivated from within.

Push yourself out of your comfort zone and see what you are really capable of.

the most wonderful discoveries that have ever been made by mankind always happen when someone decides to believe in the impossible. 8 JULY 'The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything.

An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again. Say you go in and discover that there are no copies of your book on the shelves. You resent all the other books - I don't care if they are Great Expectations, Life on the Mississippi and the King James Bible that are on the shelves.

Follow a trail of bold mistakes and at the end of them you will find a genius.

Take your inspiration from wherever you find it, no matter how ridiculous.

Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

If the writer wants to create suspense, or build tension, or make the reader wait and wonder, or join a journey of discovery, or hold on for dear life, he can save subject and verb of the main clause until later. As I just did.

Conquest of Disease, The Conquest of Pain, The Conquest of Tuberculosis, The Conquest of Cancer, The Conquest of the Unknown and The Conquest of Brain Mysteries

Curiosity is the ultimate power tool.

El protagonista es el Poeta, siempre el Poeta, solo, desconocido, abandonado, hambriento, casi un mendigo, y, sin embargo, como Colón lleva un mundo a la cabeza.

...I didn't do anything that can properly be called research; rather, I proceeded by the methodless method of "determined browsing"—

Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.

Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,Where there aren't no Ten Commandments, an' a man can raise a thirst.

I keep six honest serving men(They taught me all I knew);Their names are What and Why and WhenAnd How and Where and Who.

I've taken my fun where I've found it.

I've discovered that I've never had much respect for money, and that has meant that money has ended up ruling me a little bit more than it should have. So I'm trying to learn - at this late stage in life! - to actually control that.