Famous Quotes & Sayings

What is key is that this discovery materially de-risks the region and proves a working hydrocarbon system.

We thought the discount they gave was worth singing up and it wasn't any expense to use to do it,

Why did this happen here of all places? It's not a particularly easy environment, but the big moment may have been when someone discovered that irrigation wasn't that difficult,

To say I've suddenly discovered the military needs to be involved is like saying wheels should be round instead of square.

Haruki Murakami

Whenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was unable to do before. With each new work, I move up a step and discover something new inside me.

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.

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.

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.

Grady Booch

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

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.

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

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 would never want to discourage anyone's philanthropy.

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.

William Congreve

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.

Jonathan Miller

You have to look at the opera as not being about fidelity, but who you think you are and what happens when you pretend to be someone else and you discover you are that someone else.

You may discover patterns over time to find out what that person is up to.

Ernest Rutherford

An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid.

Carly Schroeder

I never watch MTV. I don't have time to watch TV. And when I do, I'm watching the Discovery Channel. 'Deadliest Catch: Crab Fishing in Alaska,' that's my show.

Carly Simon

It's like The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat, about the discovery of penicillin. Out of these strange accidents come huge discoveries. A certain purple bleeds into red and all of a sudden you have something unexpected.

Kirk Hammett

Getting sequestered and not really knowing what to do with your time and then discovering, 'Oh, I can watch a bunch of horror movies' has probably played out in a lot of people's discovery of horror.

Mark Twain

If there wasn't anything to find out, it would be dull. Even trying to find out and not finding out is just as interesting as trying to find out and finding out; and I don't know but more so.

Mark Twain

In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover a creek in the county next to the one that the North Pole is in, Europe and America would start fifteen costly expeditions thither; one to explore the creek, and the other fourteen to hunt for each other.

Ivan Illich

Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.

Gloria Steinem

It would help not to treat age as if it were any less of a pleasure than it was when we were six and saying, 'I'm six and a half.' You know, we could be saying, 'I'm fifty and a half' and say it with joy. Each age is different and has different discoveries and pleasures.

Harold E. Varmus

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

H. L. Mencken

[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.