Quotes About Discovery

After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love--I have found you.

As a young kid, I spent a lot of time exploring the world around me.

I never dreamt that I would do all the things that I have done. But things just happened to me all the time.

I kind of got into music in middle school, although at the time I didn't know it as punk music so much as just rock music.

I've spent a lot of time off planet.

My trouble is I'm the sort of writer who only finds out what he's getting at by the time he's got to the end of it.

I became an actor kind of by accident. I was in musical theater and I got a job as an actor in a play and kept going. But I never set out to be an actor; it happened over time.

Stanislavski was right, you can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.

I have lost everything, Han thought. Then he corrected himself. Every time I think I've lost everything, I find there's still something else to lose.

They really can't imagine what my voice is like. Every time I sing a song, they are very surprised.

I spent a lot of time in Tower Records. I'm a huge music nerd, and Tower was instrumental to me when I was growing up.

I'm a real music fan, so I listen to all kinds of music all the time. I listen to a lot of what my friends or people I know are listening to. I'm always checking out new bands.

I think there's an enormous lot of talent around, and somewhere amongst these I'm sure that something will emerge, given time.

So I've been pushed farther and farther out into the mountains, but at the same time realizing that that experience is really nice and I'm glad I'm getting pushed out there farther.

I wanna go south and get some more. Hey, they say that a stitch in time saves nine, they say I better stop or I'll go blind.

A writer is first and foremost a witness of her time. She must tell the truth, not take a political position. But then the truth that she discovers is profoundly political.

I could take my time, and nobody was pressuring me to be a headliner. I could go up there, find my voice, and figure out what I wanted to do.

Every problem has a solution. Sometimes it just takes a long time to find the solution - even if it's right in front of your nose.

I probably also wanted to be black at that particular time [ 9 years old] as well.

In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know.

Oh, bein' young ain't easy 'cos ev'rythin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' it for the first time.

When you have spent too much time with something, you may lose sight of what's marvelous about it.

The teenage years are years of great chaos and confusion in your lives, but also a time of seeking a deeper meaning.

Time and chance reveal all secrets.