Quotes About Discovery

Then comes what still seems surreal to me. You reach in, and instead of finding a tumor or some other abnormality, as surgeons usually do when we go into someone's belly, you find five tiny wiggling toes, a knee, a whole leg. And suddenly you realize you have a new human being struggling in your hands. You almost forget the mother on the table.

But that proved not to be the case.

What he found was unsurprising.

In many the entry point is never found at all.)

What would cutting the man apart accomplish?

So it struck me as odd to find

feared that the autopsy would uncover an error.

I didn't see much likelihood that an error would be found. Today

places do not change so much as what we seek in them

The physical realities of the dingy bus slid away from me. I suddenly stood upon a hill in the center of an unknown country, hearing the sky fill with a new spelling of my own name.

You do much worse things- you who can see to other planets.- Bertha, The Father

LAURA. Because the mother is closer to the child, as it has been discovered that no one can tell for a certainty who the father of a child is. CAPTAIN.

If you hate your life, you haven't' seen enough of it. If you hate your life, it's because your life is too small and doesn't' fit you.

Like every child, I adored her. Until I formed a brain and got to know her.

It turned out I had always been a smoker. I just hadn't had any cigarettes.

The most valuable moments and experiences that life has to offer are found only along its most treacherous paths.

Awe, I discovered, was my favorite feeling. It was a rare experience, but when it happened, it was like an orgasm for the mind.

It is an awful, just sickening feeling, I discovered, to live with somebody, to exist in the midst of sharing a life, only to realize it is utterly doomed.

I didn't begin life hating my grandmother. Like every child, I adored her. Until I formed a brain and got to know her.

If you hate your life, you haven't seen enough of it. If you hate your life, it's because your life is too small and it doesn't fit you.

When I was ten years old, I realized I'd been kidnapped as a toddler. Of course, I would have to have been a fairly dim child to miss the clues. Great big pink-elephant clues, trumpeting and lumbering and shitting through the house, ignored by everyone except me.

If you hate life, you haven't seen enough of it. If you hate your life, it's because your life is too small and doesn't fit you.

This is what I'm saying: you hate your life. But you don't know what life is. Life is too huge for you to possibly hate. If you hate life, you haven't seen enough of it. If you hate your life, it's because your life is too small and doesn't fit you. However big you think your life is, it's nothing compared to what's out there.

It is not advisable to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.