Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Benchley

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous

It took us a while to discover exactly what that right number was, but I think at this point we know.

Richard Thompson

They can't understand what you're doing and why you're saying what you're saying, and that might be the problem with the Discovery Institute.

Sathya Baba

The Veda existed long before it was discovered and put into practice.

They can they discover it's something that is going to make them feel better and give them more energy.

John Manley

They are (trading) at a 40 percent discount to the market, ... That's a pretty big discount.

Aristotle

In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies.

Anupam Kher

I speak for Kashmiri pundits because injustice has been done to them, and the political discourse doesn't give them enough importance.

We need to have a post mortem discovery of why the trial went on for such a long time, why the prosecution was not more selective.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

All of us want something in life, all of us have flaws, and all of us have strengths. So, I always try to discover those things in a character and then try to expose it in one way or another.

Andre Rieu

I was so busy with my studies that I didn't have a musical idol as a teenager. Later, around my 20s, I suddenly discovered the Beatles and the Rolling Stones but I guess my musical idol has always been Strauss.

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.

Cynthia Ozick

There's a paradox in rereading. You read the first time for rediscovery: an encounter with the confirming emotions. But you reread for discovery: you go to the known to figure out the workings of the unknown, the why of the familiar how.

Cynthia Ozick

The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.

When the employee discount plans are removed there will be a lull. Things tend to even out. September might be an interesting month to look at.

John Humphrys

When ministers leave government we discover that there are all sorts of things they said in government that they did not actually believe,

Finance 101 will tell you, if you take the value of her figure skating revenue streams and discount it, this is a multimillion-dollar disappointment.

Experience needs distance and what you write of at a distance tells not so much what you were like as what you have discovered since.

Robert Burns

Fain would I hide what I fear to discover

Penelope Cruz

I was raised Catholic, but then I discovered Buddhism, and I used to have a boyfriend who was a Scientologist, and they are all good religions that help people. As far as I'm concerned, you can have all three religions at once and it's okay!

Horace

Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.

Algernon Blackwood

I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns.

When you enter the room, you get a feel for the elements that you have to discover on your own; it's like stepping into a character's own unique world.

Bill Evans

When you play music you discover a part of yourself that you never knew existed.

David Attenborough

The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find a missing link and put it in the story, you suddenly need all these other missing links to connect to the new discovery. The gaps and questions actually increase - it's extraordinary.

Dashiell Hammett

...What disturbed him was the discovery that in sensibly ordering his affairs he had got out of step, and not into step, with Life.

David Zaslav

If you wake up in Moscow and put on the Science channel, it doesn't feel like an American channel, it feels like their channel. In fact, Discovery is Vladimir Putin's favorite channel.

Daniel Yergin

According to one study by the United States Geological survey, 86 percent of oil reserves in the United States are the result not of what is estimated at the time of discovery but of the revisions and additions that come with further development.

Dane Cook

I'm watching some television tonight. I'm watching The Discovery Channel. You know, this channel, you never ever plan on watching this. It just happens. You're flickin' around, all of a sudden - boom - you're watching a mole for an hour-and-a-half.

Stephen Jay Gould

The journalistic tradition so exalts novelty and flashy discovery, as reputable and newsworthy, that standard accounts for the public not only miss the usual activity of science but also, and more unfortunately, convey a false impression about what drives research.

We will place a lot of emphasis on our 130-seat bar-area happy hour, which will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday. We will have half-priced food every day for happy hour, but we will never discount the drinks.

We have a disconnect between what the faculty think of as shared governance and what the administration thinks of as shared governance.

This was the week that the administration discovered the tide wouldn't come in forever on presidential powers. Partly, that is because so much time has passed without a new attack. And partly, it is because there were so many missteps.