Quotes About Discovery

Once upon a time, I awoke in a strange place.

The next time you face a room full of strangers . . . you might tell yourself that some of them are just friends waiting to be found.

Now Stan and I were still working in secret at that time but, because of this development, we had to inform the University of Utah because we thought that they might need to take patent protection.

I was eleven years old when I saw a woman for the first time, and I was seized by such sudden surprise that I burst into tears.

Went looking for faith on the forest floor, and it showed up everywhere. In the sun, and the water, and the falling leaves, the falling leaves of time.

I want to learn more. I want to know more. That's what taking this time is about. I'm curious about so many things, but haven't had occasion to be exposed to them enough to really appreciate them.

I think this is the most exciting time in the history of photography. Technology is expanding what photographers can do, like the microscope and the telescope expanded what scientists could do.

When I came across something I liked, I wanted to find out as much as I could about it. This was as true of hearing Hoagy Carmichael for the first time as it was later when I first heard Boulez.

A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.

I was seven years old the first time I saw Michael Jackson. That changed everything.

To wake for the first time in a new place can be like another birth.

Whenever I meet people for the first time, I assume that they have a great story to tell and that it's my job to find it.

I discovered feminism around 1970-72-precisely the time when feminism began to exist in France. Before that, there was no feminism.

This time it had been magic. And it didn't stop being magic just because you found out how it was done.

Every time I've strayed from the beaten path I've never regretted it.

I have to take some time to dream some new dreams. I feel like there's a treasure hunt in front of me. A treasure hunt that is speckled with and seeded by a deep-rooted wild freedom.

I've always had a feeling that any time you can experiment, you ought to do it. Because you never know what will happen.

The first time I ever found Paste I thought somebody just might have finally made a magazine using only the contents of my brain. I read it cover to cover every single month.

The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time.

You can have a role in a movie that was originally something minor in terms of screen time, and all of a sudden we see something and go, wow, that's cool.

When I got to Saturday Night Live, it was a lot like going from pre-school to Harvard, and it took a long time to figure stuff out.

Being at college, I think that's the time when you really start searching for things outside yourself.

Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon.

I can't tell one from the other:I find you or you find me?There was a time before we were born If someone asks, this is where I'll be.