Howard Carter Quotes

One must look for one thing only, to find many.

Reality is not simply there, it must be searched and won.

The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a craft but as a way into things that are not described. It's a thing of discovering. That's when writing is really working. You're on the trail of something, and you don't quite know what it is.

You basically only discover a new thing once.

It's always good to find things that you haven't found before.

I do not seek. I find.

I'm on a search for the truth.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

I play a female Indiana Jones, a professor who hunts down precious objects, like a bowl that belonged to the Buddha. They tailored the role to me: I wanted to be smart, funny, and to kick some ass.

I've always felt you unearth story, like you're on an archeological dig.

Towards sunset we had cleared down to the level of the 12th step, which was sufficient to expose a large part of the upper portion of a plastered and sealed doorway.

All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.

I like deconstructing things. I like cutting the legs out from under something that feels secret.

The real prize is finding something new out there.

The most valuable thing in culture is to find something first - so everyone is always looking.

If you tell people what everything is before they have a chance to experience it, then I feel like it's a much different experience.

It's always interesting exploring something that has dimensions and layers to it.

I've always liked discovering things.

Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition-and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out of the ground, everything is cleared away very carefully all around it. You take away the loose earth, and you scrape here and there with a knife until finally your object is there, all alone, ready to be drawn and photographed with no extraneous matter confusing it. That is what I have been seeking to do-clear away the extraneous matter so that we can see the truth-the naked shining truth.

I can show you where to dig, and what to dig for, but the digging you must do for yourself.

Into the woods you go again You have to every now and then Into the woods, no telling when Be ready for the journey Into the woods, each time you go There's more to learn of what you know.

Trust that the treasure we look for is hidden in the ground on which we stand.

Discovery is exciting, no matter how big or small or close or distant.

A stranger here Strange things doth meet, strange glories see; Strange treasures lodged in this fair world appear, Strange all, and new to me. But that they mine should be, who nothing was, That strangest is of all, yet brought to pass.

The field of vision is comparable, for me, to the terrain of an archaeological dig. To see is to be on guard, to wait for what emerges from the background, without any name, without any particular interest: what was silent will speak, what is closed will open and will take on a voice.