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.

David Dye

There are tens of thousands of abandoned mines and quarries scattered across the American landscape, and some are more visible than others.

H. Hunt

There are so many stray and abandoned cats,

Bill Clinton

We told you this would happen if the Democrats abandoned their faith.

Larry Silverstein

It is inexcusable that the Port Authority abruptly abandoned the talks (Tuesday) night without a plan to move forward. We are not sure where this leaves us now.

Jeffrey Brown

I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of abandoned comics, through college and art school, I was doing a lot of painting. But once I started doing comics again, everything else just fell by the wayside.

Edmund White

I abandoned fiction for playwriting then for a number of years before taking it up again to write The Beautiful Room Is Empty in the mid-1960s.

Abdoulaye Wade

I have decided to suspend this procedure to continue the dialogue with the opposition. That doesn't mean I have abandoned combining the elections,

William Hanson

He found an abandoned fort along the river, some wood, nails and an orange grove and moved his family from Key West to the officer's quarters,

Mick Jones

In these circumstances, it was left to me to consider whether the music that was FOREIGNER should be abandoned to history, leaving me to change direction and start a new venture, or whether it was something that I wanted to keep pursuing and enjoying. I'm happy to say that the vision of FOREIGNER as once more being a major force in Rock music prevailed, and I now am intent on making that happen.

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.