Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Fox

Her perspective led me into self-discovery. I got to see the other side.

Walker Percy

Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon. It is that one finding oneself in one of life's critical situations need not after all respond in one of the traditional ways. No. One may simply default. Pass. Do as one pleases, shrug, turn on one's heel and leave. Exit. Why after all need one act humanly?

Vincent Bugliosi

The conspiracy community regularly seizes on one slip of the tongue, misunderstanding, or slight discrepancy to defeat twenty pieces of solid evidence; accepts one witness of theirs, even if he or she is a provable nut, as being far more credible than ten normal witnesses on the other side; treats rumors, even questions, as the equivalent of proof; leaps from the most minuscule of discoveries to the grandest of conclusions; and insists that the failure to explain everything perfectly negates all that is explained.

Robertson Davies

Civilization rests on two things: the discovery that fermentation produces alcohol, and the voluntary ability to inhibit defecation. And I put it to you, where would this splendid civilization be without both?

William Least Heat-Moon

Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth.

Wilhelm Reich

The discovery of orgone energy was made through consistent, thorough study of energy functions, first in the realm of the psyche, and later in the realm of biological functioning.

Winston Churchill

Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.

Nate Berkus

You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things.

Milan Kundera

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

Tony Buzan

In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.

Jose Marti

Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.

Jose Marti

Oh, what company good poets are!

Jose Bergamin

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

Jorge Luis Borges

He consorted with prostitutes and poets...and with persons even worse.

Jonathan Swift

From not the gravest of Divines, Accept for once some serious Lines.

Hartley Coleridge

A bard whom there were none to praise, And very few to read.

Henry David Thoreau

My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.

James Russell Lowell

It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.

Robert Rodriguez

Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.

Roger Goodell

I don't get myself caught up in the rhetoric of any personal comments that are made.

Zack Snyder

There's very few dork movies made by dorks.

Ned Vizzini

Time is a person-made concept.

Patricia A. Woertz

Ive always enjoyed seeing how things are made.

Larry Page

Big companies have always needed and cooperated in areas where it made sense.

Ken Burns

History's just been made for sale to an inside deal.

Mary McCormack

I'm from durable stock. I'm made to work. I'm Irish.

Terry Goodkind

Others made you into who you were. You made yourself into what you have become.