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Quotes About Uncovering

As the work proceeded we found that the western end of the cutting receded under the slope of the rock, and thus was partly roofed over by the overhanging rock.
~ Howard Carter
It is not so much being all that you dream of becoming as it is un-becoming all that is covering your being.
~ Sépi
It is not so much being all that we dream of becoming as it is un-becoming all that is covering our being.
~ Sépi
It was like removing layers of crumpled brown paper from an awkwardly shaped parcel, and revealing the attractive present which it contained.
~ Diana Athill
You never know what your next dig is going to find.
~ Bill Wyman
You can theorize as much as you want about what you think you're seeing, but until you get out there and dig, you can't tell exactly what it is.
~ Sarah Parcak
I've always liked discovering things.
~ MNEK
Once you open up a secret, it starts leaking out all over.
~ Robert Ferrigno
I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
Pero para qué escribir si no es para desenterrar cosas, hasta una sola, irreductible a explicaciones de toda suerte, psicológicas, sociológicas, algo que no sea el resultado de una idea preconcebida ni de una demostración, sino del relato, algo que salga de los repliegues escalonados del relato y que pueda ayudar a entender —a soportar— lo que sucede y lo que se hace.
~ Annie Ernaux
Leave no stone unturned.
~ Euripides
HBO is undeniably a leader in meaningful storytelling in a wide array of formats. I'm honored to join the REAL SPORTS team and look forward to continuing my fervor for uncovering unique and impactful stories.
~ Soledad O'Brien
What are we supposed to be looking for? Stanley asked him. You're not looking for anything. You're digging to build character. It's just if you find anything, the Warden would like to know about it.
~ Louis Sachar
One's single greatest strength may be uncovering the hidden talents of another person.
~ Tom Rath
Así como es necesaria la presión para hacer estallar la pólvora, así el infortunio es necesario también para descubrir ciertas minas misteriosas ocultas en la inteligencia humana.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Because our gifts carry us out into the world and make us participants in life, the uncovering of them is one of the most important tasks confronting any one of us.
~ Elizabeth O'Connor
archaeological riddles
~ Edward Dolnick
The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies.
~ Bob Woodward
I see things beyond what other people see. I am always looking for hidden corners and closets of a life that I feel aren't explored either by the person who lived it or the people writing about it.
~ Melanie Benjamin
Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I had been chipping at the world idly, and had by accident uncovered vast and labyrinthine further worlds within it.
~ Annie Dillard
You journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up.
~ Marisha Pessl
artists know to look deeper than just surface beauty. They dig for what's underneath the underneath
~ John Maeda
He widened the hole with his finger and looked inside.
~ Gary Paulsen