Quotes About Discovery

Being anonymous, I thought I'd just release the music and see what happens organically.

I didn't grow up listening to hip-hop since I was six.

At the time I learned drums, I wanted to be the drummer of Hanson. I wanted to be this guy because he was so young, and he was already drumming in the band, you know, so I just wanted to be like him. And later, I discovered hip-hop music at boarding school.

I was a hippie. I dropped in and out of everything. Then I found acting. It really grounded me.

When I was 13 and looking for my identity, I was obsessed with hippies.

I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian.

The guys who walk on Mars are going to be historic.

Historical science is being left in the dust.

I am not someone who believes I am going to find a historical scoop.

After writing several chapter books, I found my true passion: historical fiction.

Trying to find big hits has always been a needle-in-a-haystack endeavor.

When I moved to Los Angeles, I thought, 'Whatever hits, I'll go that direction. If it's music, fine; if it's acting, fine.'

There are different angles you have to work with as a hitter. Figuring out with my body what helps me get into those angles... is a constant discovery.

This has been a great experience for me. The first couple of days you don't always feel too well. You adjust to the fluid shifting, how to fly through space without hitting things or anybody else. But then you get in a groove.

I hadn't grown up with 'The Hobbit;' I hadn't grown up with 'Lord of The Rings,' anything like that.

Joshua Lederberg

If you keep marrying as I do, you learn everybody's hobby.

I've always loved science, but I was never going to make much of a contribution. I'm better off having science as a hobby.

There were no women's players I knew of. I didn't even know women's hockey existed.

I didn't know much about hockey.

I'd never heard of Robert Hellenga; I didn't think a book with the name 'Snakewoman of Little Egypt' would hold any appeal for me at all.

I'm a video store guy. I like thumbing through things and holding them.

I used to like to dig myself a hole just to see how long it took to get out of it.

I've seen children's eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.