Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thyagarajan Satyamurthy

Our discovery now poses very interesting questions not only about ancient Tamils but also about the history of tsunami.

William Cohen

A plague more monstrous than anything we have experienced could spread with all the irrevocability of ink on tissue paper. Ancient scourges would quickly become modern nightmares.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The older I get, the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first - a process which often reduces the most complex human problems to manageable proportions

Stephen Manes

Saddling the latest version of your company's flagship product with a name that reminds old-timers like me of the Dodge Colt Vista or the even more ancient Oldsmobile Vista-Cruiser? At Microsoft, that's what passes for innovation. In his opening speech at a recent Microsoft analysts meeting, CEO Steve Ballmer uttered the 'i' word no less than 24 times.

Elaine Pagels

These ancient stories in religion speak to our desire. But they move us toward hope.

Ghassem Asrar

The rovers have proven their value with major discoveries about ancient watery environments on Mars that might have harbored life,

Martin Filler

The role of the architect as artist is an ancient one, but it was de-emphasized with the rise of modernism, which rejected the drawing-based Beaux-Arts tradition in favor of a more technocratic approach.

Charles Godfrey Leland

It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still Before the storm, in the long interval Between the gathering clouds and that light breeze Which Germans call the Wind's bride.

David Goodwin

The stigma of St. Pete as a retirement community is just so long gone. That old stereotype is ancient history. We want that thing buried.

Clark Bunting

This is not an infomercial. These are straight-up documentaries that Discovery would do anyway.

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.

Jane Hirshfield

A poem's essential discovery can happen at a single sitting. The cascade of discoveries in an essay, or even finding a question worth exploring in one, seems to need roughly the time it takes to plant and harvest a crop of bush beans.

Bryant H. McGill

Every symbol, word, concept, discipline and field is only a temporary rest stop on the highway of discovery.

Jared Diamond

Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as the average human.

Barry Goldwater

To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.

Bruce Lee

Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.

David Katz

First we have to prove that it will work in humans, ... If that happens, then I would estimate that it will likely be a five-year process to turn the discovery into something people can use.

Rod Thorn

As he pointed out, there's a history of things with him - not just the fight. But I think there will be a lot of teams that will have an interest in him at some level.

John G. D. Clark

As contemporary history reminds us we are human to the extent that we are able to chose between alternatives.

Janet Fitch

As an undergraduate, I had not studied literature - I was a history major.

Kathy Smith

As a historian, I'm very thrilled to be here because it is a moment in history for our city.

Joe Thomas

At university, I said to a girl, 'Before I met you all I could think about was history; now, all I can think about is you'. I thought that was the sort of thing you had to say.

Karen Wagner

That's where the history is, and that's where it should stay.

Anne Stevens

Norfolk has a wonderful history and reputation, but this is part of the total 'Way Forward' turnaround strategy.

M. Wolfe

Do you own your history, or does someone else own your history? ... There's the play that you're telling, and then there's the play that's underneath that.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A page of history is worth a pound of logic.

Joseph Grundfest

There are a lot of complicated questions to answer.

David Colton

There's really a lot of unanswered questions regarding this plan.

Colin Falls

I don't think it's mental, I just think that questions our toughness.

Francis Bacon

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

George Daley

I would say they also raise more questions than answers.

Helen Rowland

There aren't any embarrassing questions - only embarrassing answers.

Rod Barnes

I'm not going to take those questions today.

William Allan

Those are all questions we are going to be talking about with the commission.

Mark Koenig

It was not something our competitors did. It was different, so we got questions about it.