“I think we all look for clues that we are not utterly alone... Clues we find in literature and paintings and music and even someone’s eyes; clues that demonstrate that someone else has felt the same indescribable feelings, seen the same things or passed by the spot even if it was by candlelight three hundred years ago. It means everything, like finding footprints in the sand of a deserted island.” IfsThinkingYearsLooksMeanFeelingsEyeThreeLiteratureFeltPaintingFindingsHundredYears AgoSpotsIslandsSandClueFootprintDesertedIndescribableCandlelightDeserted IslandFootprints In The Sand Book:Losing Julia Source: Losing Julia
“All genuine progress results from finding new facts. No law can be passed to make an acre yield three hundred bushels. God has already established the laws. It is four us to discover them, and to learn the facts by which we can obey them.” FactsLawThreeResultsFourProgressFindingsHundredGenuineYieldAcres Author:Wheeler McMillen
“Actually solving the puzzles in the book isn't going to improve anyone's writing, but "trying to solve the puzzle" is one way to think about what a lot of us - writers and other artists - do every day. Step one is to recognize the problem, step two is deciding what constraints you want to impose or respect, and step three is finding a pleasing/surprising/exciting solution.” ThinkingWayWantWritingTryingTwoBookProblemArtistThreeStepsFindingsSolutionsExcitingSolveOne WaySurprisingPuzzlesConstraints Author:Peter Turchi
“To defend something is always to discredit it. Let a man have a warehouse full of gold, let him be willing to give away a ducat to every one of the poor - but let him also be stupid enough to begin this charitable undertaking of his with a defense in which he offers three good reasons in justification; and it will almost come to the point of people finding it doubtful whether indeed he is doing something good. But now for Christianity. Yes, the person who defends that has never believed in it.” PeopleMenGivingPersonsReasonEnoughThreePoorChristianityStupidWillingOffersFindingsGoldDefenseJustificationUndertakingsDoubtfulCharitableDiscreditWarehouse Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“I think with Sky and BBC Three and Channel 4, there are some great television platforms, and the stand-up movement in this country is phenomenal. Its like rock'n'roll here. Britain's a funny place and there's a lot of funny people coming out of there and a lot of people are finding mediums to express themselves.” PeopleThinkingCountryThreeSkyRocksMovementTelevisionFindingsMediumsBritainComing OutRock N RollPlatformsPhenomenalFunny People Author:Brendan Coyle
“Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put three man-years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product, and distributing it for free?” MenYearsThreeProductsFindingsProgrammingBugsProfessional Work Author:Bill Gates
“But acting is my main profession so it's about finding the right balance. I don't know how, if I went any further with the music, I would manage to do both - I would have to take time off from acting because I couldn't do both at same time. I could do six months on and six months off perhaps. But I'm really proud of the record. I've worked on it for a while and I'm really glad to finally get the album out, having done three EPs prior to its release.” IfsKnowsDoneThreeActingKnow HowRecordsMonthsProudBalanceSixFindingsAlbumsProfessionGladManageReleaseTake TimeSix MonthsTime Off Author:Iwan Rheon
“I have spent my whole life scared, frightened of things that could happen, might happen, might not happen, 50 years I spent like that. Finding myself awake at three in the morning. But you know what? Ever since my diagnosis, I sleep just fine.” KnowsYearsWholeMightHappensThreeSleepMorningFineFindingsScaredWhole LifeAwakeFrightenedInsightfulDiagnosisFinding Myself Author:Walter White
“Wouldn't we all rather have the possibility of finding pleasure and delight in literally anything we might encounter? Instead of assuming that actually there are only these three things where pleasure and delight are possible. Like oh, it's television and socialization and work, and then everything else is the smoke I have to somehow choke my way through in order to get to the good parts.” WayMightOrderThreePleasurePossibilityTelevisionFindingsAssumingDelightSmokeMy WayEncountersThree ThingsChokeSocialization Author:Ian Bogost
“Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.” InspirationalChildrenThreeActorsEventsBecomingFindingsAddictionHardestRecoverySoberHardest ThingSobrietyPivotalAddicts In RecoveryAlcohol RecoveryBeing SoberGetting Sober Author:Gary Oldman
“Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.” IfsFeelsWritingCharacterLife IsCertainThreeFindingsJazzOneselfRhythmCompareArbitraryLife Is LikeProgressionFinding The One Author:Francoise Sagan
“Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.” BookStoriesUseThreeFourTravelFindingsMarkBackgroundsNovelistsTravelerGreat TravelTravel Books Author:Paul Theroux
“A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.” YearsChildrenDoeHappinessThreeFunBoysBabySixFindingsGreenDollarsParentingFiftyThree YearsSwingsWormsHaving KidsFunny ParentingBaby BoyThree Year Olds Author:Bill Vaughan
“Because there is nothing I would rather do than rummage through bookshops, I went at once to Hastings & Sons Bookshop upon receiving your letter. I have gone to them for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn't known I wanted.” YearsBookWantedThreeKnownGoneSonFindingsLettersReceivingBookshopsFinding The One Book:The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Source: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
“Unlike the male codfish which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons.” LooksLittlesEyeThreeParentMillionsFiveSonThousandFindingsHundredMalesBritishResolveAristocracy Author:P. G. Wodehouse
“I gestured my frustration. “I don’t know. She’s much better already. She wasn’t talking half an hour ago. Look at her now.” We all turned, finding Ceri sobbing quietly and drinking her tea in small reverent sips as the pixy girls hovered over her. Three were plating her long, fair hair and another was singing to her. Okay,” I said as we turned back. “Bad example.” KnowsLooksLongSaidGirlThreeHoursHalfTalkingExampleHairFindingsSingingFairsOkayDrinkingTeaFrustrationSobbing Author:Kim Harrison
“There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.” PeopleFirstsThreeFoundTypeFindingsThirdsSeekingFoolishUnhappyRational Author:Blaise Pascal
“I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.” YearsBookWantedThreeKnownGoneFindingsBookstoresBookshopsFinding The One Author:Mary Ann Shaffer
“You should have called us. Desmond would have picked you up.' 'No I wouldn't,' Valkyrie's dad said, stepping into earshot. 'Sorry, Fletcher, but I had important fatherly duties to take care of, which included eating breakfast, showering, and finding my trousers. Of those three, I only managed two. Without looking down, can you guess which one I missed?'... Fletcher smiled back. 'I just want to borrow Stephanie for a moment.' 'Take our daughter,' Valkryie's dad said, waving a hand airily. 'We have another one now.” WantShouldSaidTwoImportantMomentsHandsCareThreeDutyDadFindingsEatingDaughterShould HaveSorryTake CareBreakfastOur DaughterTrousersLooking DownEating Breakfast Author:Derek Landy
“You are an instrument of God. Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can can play the 'Gloria'? No, not Bach's 'Gloria.' Yours! Your 'Gloria' lives within you. The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you.” MadePlayThreeSinCasesSonFindingsSittingInstrumentsBlindSettlingMy SonWithin YouMiceUnexploredGloriaInstruments Of God Author:Abraham Verghese