Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Fox

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

Brett Johnson

It is a journey of discovery - artistically, sexually, socially.

Richard P. Feynman

We are very lucky to be living in an age in which we are still making discoveries. It is like the discovery of America-you only discover it once. The age in which we live is the age in which we are discovering the fundamental laws of nature, and that day will never come again. It is very exciting, it is marvelous, but this excitement will have to go.

Richard P. Feynman

If you can find any other view of the world which agrees over the entire range where things have already been observed, but disagrees somewhere else, you have made a great discovery.

Richard P. Feynman

One of the ways of stopping science would be only to do experiments in the region where you know the law. But experimenters search most diligently, and with the greatest effort, in exactly those places where it seems most likely that we can prove our theories wrong. In other words, we are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

Russell Baker

Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the invention of the printing press, which changed the human condition for centuries afterward.

William Wordsworth

We murder to dissect.

William James

(Five) thinkers since Galileo, each informing his successor of what discoveries his own lifetime had seen achieved, might have passed the torch of science into our hands as we sit here in this room. Indeed, for the matter of that, an audience much smaller than the present one, an audience of some 5 or 6 score people, if each person in it could speak for his own generation, would carry us away to the black unknown of the human species, to days without a document or monument to tell their tale.

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?

Ryan Reynolds

When I exhale, I just turn right into Louie Anderson.

Wayne Gretzky

A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.

Peter Plagens

I like touch. I like to make twists and turns -- but I don't want (my paintings) to be too elegant.

Meg Mallon

It turns out I've had this for a very long time,

Nicole Polizzi

What I'd like is to turn out like Jessica Simpson, with her whole brand

Lucy Maud Montgomery

To dispair is to turn your back on God.

Cliff Floyd

A really big at-bat for us, ... The kind of at-bat that turns game.

Tim Tebow

I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me.

Derek Walcott

How can I turn from Africa and live?

Jose Marti

Charm is a product of the unexpected.

Ralph Fiennes

Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.

John Motson

The unexpected is always likely to happen.

John Maynard Keynes

The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.

Atsushi Nakajima

It probably won't happen, but there's always the possibility of unexpected consequences.

Barbra Streisand

Love comes from the most unexpected places.

Charles Kennedy

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

Daniel Handler

Sometimes the things you’ve lost can be found again in unexpected places.

Alex Flinn

Sometimes, unexpected things can happen.