Quotes About Discovery

Magic Sandra's seen a leprechaun, Eddie touched a troll, Laurie danced with witches once, Charlie found some goblins gold. Donald heard a mermaid sing, Susy spied an elf, But all the magic I have known I've had to make myself.

She had blue skin, And so did he. He kept it hid And so did she. They searched for blue Their whole life through, Then passed right by- And never knew.

The bridge will only take you halfway there, to those mysterious lands you long to see. Through gypsy camps and swirling Arab fair, and moonlit woods where unicorns run free. So come and walk awhile with me and share the twisting trails and wondrous worlds I've known. But this bridge will only take you halfway there. The last few steps you have to take alone.

Anything's hard to find if you go around looking for it with your eyes shut.

I can't begin to tell you the things I discovered while I was looking for something else.

I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.

The books of course had shaped his mind in a hundred ways, especially perhaps the poetry. He thought of the master at his school who had awakened him to the glory of Shakespeare, and his own discovery of Shelley. So many of the books, the best-loved ones, had been about England, and of course the poems were England itself. As a child England had seemed much nearer than New York or the cowboy west.

I was still upset that Mom had been so careless and because of that, Lovie and I might not have shared the same biological father. It's funny how you always think your parents are just parents. Rarely do you see them as people who are going through life's struggles exactly like you.

Sometimes we lose things and we are broken. Sometimes we find things, and sometimes, if we are lucky, we mend.

The writing can be its own reward, as you discover more things that you can do. It counts a lot, though, when a story connects with a reader and they take the time to tell me about it.

I spend a lot of time learning about bird watching.

I had hoped to be a poet, and for a long time I tried to write poetry. My first published pieces were poems.

I myself, at one time, wanted to be like the explorers of the Himalayas that I used to read about; people intoxicated on the myth of history.

Even after all this time, I keep forgetting that heroes can be found in unlikely places and persons -- like mechanics who can turn into coyotes.

I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able to view what I was performing myself as an art form.

Things changed with the discovery of neutron stars and black holes - objects with gravitational fields so intense that dramatic space and time-warping effects occur.

I'm a tourist, a glorified tourist. I'm not doing it to have a good time or to lie in the sun.

My 20s were a time where I made it; my 30s were when I was away, confused, and trying to figure it all out.

I strike up conversations all the time and it is very interesting, finding out about things I know nothing about.

This, my children," Alistair said proudly, "was barbecue pork." Dan rapped his fingers against the latch. "Been out in the sun for a long time.

I started reading SF when I was about twelve and I read all I could, so any author who was writing about that time, I read. But there's no doubt who got me off originally and that was A. E. van Vogt.

At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet.

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent.

Athenodorus says hydrophobia, or water-dread, was first discovered in the time of Asclepiades.