Quotes About Discovery

Try everything once except folk dancing and incest.

Try everything once except incest and folk dancing.

I love to lose myself in a mystery, to pursue my Reason to an O altitudo!

We carry within us the wonders we seek around us

Once in a while you will stumble upon the truth but most of us manage to pick ourselves up and hurry along as if nothing had happened.

Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.

What was unwritten then is inscribed into what I call myself.

I see what I did not see. I experience that which is outside my own experience. This is the magic of reading novels. This is the working out of the problem of illusion. I take a book off the shelf. I open it up and begin to read, and what I discover in its pages is real.

Chance had given me this small adventure and I was pleased.

In college I retreated to the library. I have always loved libraries - the quiet, the smell, the expectation of imminent discovery. In the next book I will find it - some unspeakable pleasure or startling revelation or extraordinary nuance I had never felt or thought of before.

I am afraid of writing, too, because when I write I am always moving toward the unarticulated, the dangerous, the place where the walls don't hold. I don't know what's there, but I'm pulled toward it.

Adam invented love at first sight, one of the greatest labor-saving machines the world ever saw.

You get over your first love by falling in love with something new.

A guy's gotta live, you know, gotta make his way and find his meaning in life and love, and to do that he needs coffee, he needs coffee and coffee and coffee.

I know I have an incredibly amazing family that loves and supports me unconditionally. I have a best friend I consider to be a sister, and I've recently discovered my true love.

I love to travel, it doesn't matter where I am in the world, usually there's a good time to be had.

When I reach to the edge of the universe, I do so knowing that along some paths of cosmic discovery, there are times when, at least for now, one must be content to love the questions themselves.

Day, after day, after glorious day, I was falling in love with books.

I've always been attracted to the characters that I didn't know anything about. If you do anything in life with passion and love, then it's worth trying.

faith is like love; when you want it you can't find it, and you find it when you least expect it.

If you love something enough, it will reveal itself to you.

I taught you to fight and to fly. What more could there be?

What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur.

My favorite part of any event is a Q&A. I do get asked a lot of the same questions but every now and then someone surprises me - and I LOVE that.