Quotes About Discovery

I really wanted to be a musician, but it turned out I had no sense of time.

I could have been a Vincent Young y'all know nothing about. I was on the wrong road, and it was a hard, hard time.

The first time onstage, a light went on. 'OK, this is my thing. I'm comfortable here. This is my thing.'

It took me a long time to find my voice as a singer, and I'm happy that I did.

There was always a unique Beirut sound, it was always there, and so this time I just dove straight into that, instead of daydreaming and wandering.

I was always looking outside of myself for stories and ideas and influences and then I kind of realized in 2010, that all of this time, I've developed a "sound." And I've never fully explored it.

Eleven would have been the best time. Eleven is just about the best age for almost everything.

In my early career, I look at that time as a series of trial and error and learning as I go.

Until you have wasted time in a city, you cannot pretend to know it well.

Onstage, of course, you have the luxury of rehearsal and discovery and time and comfort, which then turns into terror when you actually have to put it in front of people.

You never forget the discovery years. First kisses. The first time you try certain foods.

Any art worth its name requires you to be fundamentally lost for a very long time.

By the time writing was invented, the Greeks and Egyptians had already learned to extract opium from poppies to facilitate sleep.

If you can do something with your eyes closed, it is time to try something new.

I didn't think I was an actor and fought it for a long time. Nobody paid for that but me.

For most of that time, I've also been a keen gardener, but for many years I failed to make the connection between gardening and science.

I think the first time I realized I was actually acting was during Felicity. Before that, I was just going along for the ride.

Now, it is much more difficult for young people coming to New York. But also when you're young, you have more time to interact with one another, to discover yourself with people of your generation.

Getting sequestered and not really knowing what to do with your time and then discovering, 'Oh, I can watch a bunch of horror movies' has probably played out in a lot of people's discovery of horror.

I fell in love with Paris the first time I went.

We have traveled through space and time. We have been many places. Visited many worlds. And there is good news: the acoustics everywhere are terrific.

Everyone lives under their rocks in L.A., so it takes a long time to find your lane.

Sometimes the closest-held secrets in the world can be pried out by the right question at the right time.

I guess every time I go to Miami, it's pretty first-time for me, so I have to go with Miami as my hot spot.