Quotes About Discovery

I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.

I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

On rides you see things that trigger ideas. And most the time it's just not doing anything but riding ... letting it all go.

I discovered shooting and filmmaking around the time all of the software became affordable to anyone with a PC.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

Scientific discoveries usually aren't good or evil just by themselves. Science is neutral. It's what people do with their knowledge that matters.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

That's it!" cried Fizban. "I remembered!" Suddenly the air was filled with strands of sticky, floating cobweb.

Tas strolled along the Haven Road, flourishing his hoopak, enjoying the day and reflecting that if he had known marriage would be this exciting, he would have done it a long time ago.

a writer is a foreign country

No matter where she is, it is as though Lol is there for the first time. She no longer experiences the invariable distance that memory provides: she is there, in the present.

Vi?t v?n là tìm cách bi?t trÆ°á»›c ???c mình s? vi?t gì n?u mình vi?t - ng??i ta ch? bi?t Ä'i?u này sau Ä'ó - còn trÆ°á»›c Ä'ó, là câu h?i hóc búa nh?t mà ng??i ta có th? ??t ra cho mình. NhÆ°ng cÅ©ng là câu h?i lá»›n nh?t.

But what is there about me I am so completely unaware of and which she summons me to know?

No se trata de que sea necesario conseguir algo, sino de que es necesario salirse de donde se está

Traveling is a great distraction. Everyone has always traveled, the Greeks, the Phoenicians: it has always been so, all through history.

Comme le voyageur qui navigue entre les îles de l'Archipel voit la buée lumineuse se lever vers le soir, et découvre peu à peu la ligne du rivage, je commence à apercevoir le profil de ma mort.

Come il viaggiatore che naviga tra le isole dell'Arcipelago vede levarsi a sera i vapori luminosi, e scopre a poco a poco la linea della costa, così io comincio a scorgere il profilo della mia morte.

un Ulisse senz'altra Itaca che quella interiore.

It was only when the salt water of my tears ran into my cuts and made them sting that I discovered I was crying.

I recall the look in Rhauk's eyes the moment he spotted Kate. It will stay with me forever, carved into my brain like an engraving on a headstone. It's as if he found something he treasured, something he's been looking for all his life.

discovering Antarctica, its penguin kings and icy spires...

what thrills me about trains is not their size or their equipment but the fact that they are moving, that they embody a connection between unseen places.

The future is the one thing you can count on not abandoning you, kid, he'd said. The future will always finds you. Stand still, and it will find you. The way the land just has run to sea.

Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Perhaps, in a way, that's where humanity is now: about to discover we're not as smart as we thought we were, will be forced by life to surrender our attacks and defenses which avail us of nothing, and finally break through into the collective beauty of who we really are. [ Facebook post , August 31, 2013]