#searching

I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#certain #certain things #confident #content #directions

The Americans may think they have 'liberated' Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves - they came in families and cruised the city in trucks and cars searching for booty - seem to have a different idea what liberation means. ↗

— Robert Fisk

#booty #came #cars #city #different

I kept walking. Have you ever done that? Just walk. Just walk and have no idea where you're going? It wasn't a good feeling, but not a bad one either. I felt caged and free at the same time, like it was only myself that wouldn't allow me to feel either great or miserable. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#freedom #searching #walk #freedom

What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#searching #seeking #dance

I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself. ↗

— Rabih Alameddine

#escape #searching #self-discovery #self-discovery

In scoring, I usually start with a sound or group of sounds, searching out what feels right. ↗

— Jim Coleman

#group #i #out #right #scoring

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#character #consists #consuming #deliberately #describe

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge. ↗

— Jack LaLanne

#bored #get #keep #knew #know

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#claims #gives #never #science #searching

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#bad #beach #blank #change #could