Quotes About Discovery

Douglas Preston

What Strong realized right away was that these were not Maya cities: The Maya built with stone, while this region had been extensively settled by a separate, sophisticated culture that built great earthen mounds. This was an entirely new culture.

Douglas Preston

In five days, lidar had accomplished seven times more than the Chases had achieved in twenty-five years.

Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.

Over and over, starting to wake I dive back to discover you

The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.

You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.

But in the Gospel of Thomas, the whole point of Jesus' teaching is to discover your true identity, to realize who and what you really and truly are here and now.

A huge gap appeared in the side of the mountain. At last a tiny mouse came forth.

An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.

The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]

Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things...

I suppose what I really am is restless. I want to go everywhere, see everything, do everything. I want to find something. Yes, that's it, I want to find something.

In an English village, you turn over a stone and have no idea what will crawl out. Miss Marple

Archaeologists only look at what lies beneath their feet. The sky and the heavens don't exist for them.

What one does not tell to Papa Poirot he finds out.

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

Good gracious, Jerry, you'll probably have to marry the girl.' Joanna was half serious, half laughing. It was at that moment that I made a very important discovery. 'Damn it all,' I said. 'I don't mind if I do. In fact - I should like it.' A very funny expression came over Joanna's face. She got up and said dryly, as she went toward the door, 'Yes, I've known that for some time...' She left me standing, glass in hand, aghast at my new discovery.

You are young still. Naturally, one tries this, that and the other, but what one eventually settles down into is the life one prefers.

Profesi suami yang paling baik bagi wanita adalah arkeolog. Karena semakin tua si wanita, suami akan semakin tertarik kepadanya.

There was something magical about an island—the mere word suggested fantasy. You lost touch with the world—an island was a world of its own. A world, perhaps, from which you might never return. He thought: "I'm leaving my ordinary life behind me." And, smiling to himself, he began to make plans, fantastic plans for the future. He was still smiling when he walked up the rock-cut steps. In

Either her dream had taken a very odd turn or else - or else Mary had really rushed into the room and had said (incredible! fantastic!) that there was a body in the library.