Quotes About Discovery

Yes, but I - you know, it's been such a long time, I'm sure that I've got cousins and uncles that I've never met before, you know, that I've left behind.

I've got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody's looking.

There's an artist that I listened to for the first time, and I really didn't like them. I had some kind of adverse reaction, and later, it became my favorite thing.

It turns out I had this huge geeky safety net out there that I didn't know about this whole time, made up of people who have been reading my comic for nine years but never contacted me.

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.

I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.

Very often, people who actually pick up a book of mine for the first time are kind of surprised. And I get these letters saying, well, who knew that you were good, you know?

I always feel I'm an amateur. I don't most of the time know what I'm doing.

I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from 'Empire of the Sun,' who'd never made a movie before.

I look back on my years as a Wall Street lawyer as time spent in a foreign country.

From the very first movie I ever made to the current time, there have been times between action and cut when I've sensed some kind of new dimension that I haven't been familiar with before.

~I've learned the value of absorbing the moment. I remember the first time Ripley saw her shadow. My God, it was like shadows had just been invented. It was the most exquisite moment.~

I do want to write about Jane Whitefield again, but only when I have a good enough idea - something I've figured out about her that's news and that's worth a reader's time.

I remember when I was 14, I went to race in Hungary, and I went to a concert, and they were playing Bob Marley songs, and I thought, "Wow, this guy is so special." It's Marley every time.

A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a little bit more intention, you see it.

This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I'm discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it's a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you.

Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do.

We'll find them. It'll be a matter of time to do so.

There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.

We discover a new world every time we see the earth again after it has been covered for a season with snow.

The time will come when man will know even what is going on in the other planets and perhaps be able to visit them.

All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch.

Don't play the way it goes. Play the way it is. And the way it is every time you play it, it's slightly different. Look for something. So that's the challenge not to be bored.

You know, I have a really tough time finding new bands.