Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tristram Stuart

As human pastoralists discovered 8,000 years ago, raising animals can be an efficient way of harnessing otherwise unusable resources such as grass.

Tammis Groft

Sometimes he would go back to sites that had already been excavated, and he would use his own methodical methods and discover great new things that people had just really overlooked.

Mary E. Pearson

I've discovered I love the vast landscape a series offers. I tend to write long anyway, so, it turns out, series gives me the perfect vehicle for writing 'large' stories.

Archimedes

Eureka! (I have found it!)

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest.

Elizabeth Holmes

Too often you see someone fall, break a rib, go in to the doctor and discover a tumor.

Thomas Friedman

John Kennedy led us on a journey to discover the moon. Obama needs to lead us on a journey to rediscover, rebuild and reinvent our own backyard.

John Lasseter

I can't tell you, as a parent, how it feels when the doctor tells you your child has diabetes. First off, you don't really know much about it. Then you discover there is no cure.

Will Rogers

Wrigley was the first man to discover that American jaws must wag; so why not give them something to wag against.

Tammy Cox

You say you are not going to watch the news but you do. You want to know what is going on there.

Elizabeth Edwards

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

Richard Gilhooly

There's nothing surprising in this when you see day after day after day after day, 3,000, 5,000, 10,000 layoffs, ... So if anyone's shocked by this, they haven't been reading the newspapers for the past three months.

Daniel Schorr

All news is an exaggeration of life.

Soren Kierkegaard

The best news the World has ever heard came from a graveyard - Christ is risen!

Norman Cousins

If news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation

Paddy Chayefsky

Howard Beale is processed, instant God, and right now it looks like he might just go over bigger than Mary Tyler Moore.

Howard Kurtz

Newspapers are trying to use their own Web sites to provide 24-hour coverage, even though the old dinosaur, ink-on-paper version only comes out once a day.

Gary Pruitt

Newspapers are not dying. That's just wrong, and we are going to prove it wrong together.

Jan Chipchase

Technology, we find, amplifies behaviours. If you want to be anti-social, technology allows you to be. And vice versa.

Ben Marcus

Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the mouth.

Ayn Rand

Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.

Ben Fountain

You have the mainstream bourgeois life of the U.S., Europe, the "developed" world - the life of technology, education, mortgages, careers, a certain level of physical comfort - while on the other hand, several billion people on the planet exist on less than a dollar a day. That's a huge and terrible reality to get your head around.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products - iPod, iPhone, iPad - that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world.

Al Gore

Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature

Arthur C. Clarke

The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labour.

Brian Eno

You can't really imagine music without technology.

Dennis Ritchie

For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Amanda Hale

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

Luis Castillo

This is terrible. Very disappointing. I've got to get back out there. There's so many things I have to work on.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Kathryn Harrison

I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.

Julia Glass

The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustrophobic. I say, 'Write what you want to know.'