Quotes About Discovery

I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.

The first time I did a school play was the first time I felt I was good at anything at all. I just loved it.

Writing a novel is always complicated, it's not like you snap your fingers and go, 'Ah, I know what I'll write'. For me, a lot of the time, I have to write and as I write, I learn about the story.

That's why you hear about people coming up with inventions almost at the same time, because someone else is thinking about it.

One of my students told me that every time she learns the name of a plant, she feels as if she is meeting someone new. Giving a name to something is a way of knowing it.

There's never the same road. It's always, every time it's always a different road.

And what I've found over time is that for me to write a poem that I think is worthy that I can live with, two things have to happen.

I don't tend to say it's time for one of this or that genre. Things flow to you in a strange way, and why you bump into a certain kind of thing in one moment is...it's hard to explain.

With kids you can take a chance but casting a guy at 45 is different. You don't discover somebody that age. If an actor hasn't made it by that time he probably has no talent.

For the first time, I had been struck by the excitement of the traveler who looks history in her subtle face.

A library is a platform upon which we catch trains to Every Where and Any Place, Another Time and Across Space. All aboard!

Twenty-five years is a long time for a girl to live out of a trunk, and after looking over a few houses, I fell in love with one in Southwest Los Angeles.

We live in an extraordinary time

It took me a very long time to realize that inherently the materials have this beautiful quality without me having to impose meaning onto them.

I was excited to discover, in this tale by Eliade, the key themes that I most hope to understand better - time, consciousness and the dream-like basis of reality.

What are you, child, that you need time to learn about yourself?

Growing up, I didn't know very much about my heritage and the Soviet Union and things of that nature. But when I saw the Soviet Union play hockey for the first time, to me, it was profound.

I found my father's Super8mm film camera when I was around eight years old and started shooting with it. I had no idea what I was doing at the time, but that's really where my filmmaking began.

I remember seeing Eddie Murphy RAW and seeing people laughing and having a good time and that was the same response I was getting so I thought I was on to something.

Sometimes books don't find us until the right time.

What have I done thins time?" he paused to ask before continuing with his oral expedition about her body: her husband, the intrepid explorer.

I think that I was lucky to have that period of time [ like coming to New York] because everything was so exciting and new.

Once upon a time the world was round, and you could go on it around and around.

I didn't get into music until the early 90s when I heard rap music for the first time.