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Quotes About Uncovering

Music is a treasure hunt. You dig and dig, and sometimes you find something.
~ Ry Cooder
I always loved digging away at the story, trying to find out things that people don't want you to find out and piecing it all together. I love the treasure hunt aspect of it, the thrill of the chase.
~ Kevin Macdonald
I get slightly obsessive about working in archives because you don't know what you're going to find. In fact, you don't know what you're looking for until you find it.
~ Antony Beevor
I write to discover. I write to uncover. I write to meet my ghosts... I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like love, to form the words.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
My investigative technique mostly consisted of going through the list of interested parties and making as much noise as possible, until the culprit lost his patience and tried to shut me up.
~ Ilona Andrews
Each question was precisely the best one based on the information he had uncovered so far. His logic was faultless—he never asked a question that was irrelevant or erroneous. His questions came in rapid-fire order, revealing a mind that was lightning-fast and error-free.
~ George B. Dyson
He hoped he had nurtured her long enough, that she perceived all that he valued: the lure of Telling and the delirium of Remembering, the addiction of Uncovering and the libation of Testimony.
~ Susanne Pari
She could already sense that the answers were in there, but they were buried beneath so many layers she feared she'd never find them.
~ Neal Shusterman
I'm always interested in something that's missing.
~ Clive Cussler
drawers, searching through them before pulling
~ Kevin Wignall
The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.
~ Robert Baden-Powell
But man does not create...he discovers.
~ Antonio Gaudi
albumen, and made other foul-smelling things into
~ Upton Sinclair
Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
~ Gavin Bryars
My interest is in turning over a rock and seeing what's underneath. It's a personality trait more than anything; it's what made me want to become a crime reporter, even though I was not suited for it personality-wise.
~ Gillian Flynn
The inner dimension and the hidden time have already been discovered.
~ Compton Gage
Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.
~ Terence
I often say that the best way to find a story is a one-inch brief in a local newspaper.
~ David Grann
Sometimes the work emerged out of intent—the desire to make a specific thing. But just as often, what she created was not of her design, but, rather, was like archaeology: It was more of an uncovering, as if the artist's job was simply to find what the material was trying to hide. And then wrestle it to the surface, so that all could see. Or, in her case, cut the trapped spirit free.
~ Chuck Wendig
Maybe it's from the Greek word for "apocalypse"—apokálypsis. An uncovering. A revealing.
~ Chuck Wendig
Quien encuentra hace rato que está buscando, aunque no lo sepa.»
~ Guillermo Arriaga
There are so many previously unknown sites and structures all over the world. And I think most importantly what satellites help to show us is we've actually only found a fraction of a percent of ancient settlements and sites all over the world.
~ Sarah Parcak
is an amazing revelation for those who are interested in uncovering the fundamental secrets of life. It is the way that chemistry—the study of how atoms bond to create molecules—becomes biology.
~ Walter Isaacson