Famous Quotes & Sayings

A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true. And this is the reason for the fragmentary character of those poems.

Iain McGilchrist

It is not rational to assume, without evidence, that rationality can disclose everything about the world, just because it can disclose some things. Our intuition in favour of rationality, where we are inclined to use it, is just that - an intuition. Reason is founded in intuition and ends in intuition, like a pair of massive bookends.

Iain Banks

I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.

Eric Braeden

To support my brothers and me, my mother got a job so menial that we never discussed it.

Flea

Lucky enough, through the public school system, I had been able to have some music education, and that gave me something to focus on, and discipline - like a family to feel part of. There was a healthy family.

Frank Welker

I've been doing voices as long as I can remember. When I was little I could pick up on sounds, and then I discovered you could distort what you hear and make people laugh or disrupt a class.

Edwin Morgan

I just discovered when I was, oh, 12 or 13, that I was very interested in language - and this showed itself as poetry. There was no looking back.

Disclosure and transparency are the currency of the Internet, and they are at odds with authoritarianism.

To disclose too much of one's inventions and achievements is one and the same thing as to give up the fruit of one's ingenuity.

Fabiola Gianotti

The top quark was discovered in 1995, and since then, the Higgs has become our obsession because the standard model was incomplete without it.

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Gene Robinson

Discerning the will of God is a very tricky thing, partly because, you know, the little voice in my head can either be God's voice or it can be my own ego doing a magnificent impression of God's voice.

Thabo Mbeki

I say that why don't we bring all points of view. Sit around a table and discuss this evidence, and produce evidence as it may be, and let's see what the outcome is, which is why we are having this International panel which we are all talking about.

Grady Booch

We knew we needed to disconnect the language from the process,

We're trying to use discretion as much as we can ? recognizing people's right to free speech.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior.

Emmeline Pankhurst

My parents, especially my father, discussed the question of my brothers' education as a matter of real importance. My education and that of my sister were scarcely discussed at all.

Robert Morgan

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.

Robert Morgan

I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.

We've worked with many other states and we've said, 'Let us come in and help. We want to be a partner on this. If Governor Gregoire is interested in having a discussion with us at the table, we'd sure love to be there.

We have filed a proposal for the discount to our headquarters (in Seattle, the United States) and it is now being finalized.

We really don't discuss our political donations with anybody.

We really didn't discuss any money today; we discussed the process,

We will get one new discovery for every $1.8 million of research.

We will do that to help alleviate the discomfort because of the terrible delays.

We will discuss a raise seriously at next month's meeting,

Anthony Clark

We will disclose the information publicly by the end of the day tomorrow. I have two witnesses who are very knowledgeable about what and why it happened.

We would never want to discourage anyone's philanthropy.

We would like to see these phased in in 2006. The discussion will be focused on that timetable.

We would like to have to at South every year, but we haven't discussed that yet.

We would have preferred not to restate earnings, but it is important to recognize that we have had a very comprehensive review ongoing. Where we have discovered or identified errors, we have moved quickly.

We gave him 10 points early in the game and after that we did a good job on him. He's a good player. You can't discredit what he did.