Famous Quotes & Sayings

Georges Cuvier

Nurse, it was I who discovered that leeches have red blood.[]On his deathbed when the nurse came to apply leeches

George Will

The education of this president [Obama] is a protracted and often amusing process . . . as he continues to alight upon the obvious with a sense of profound and original discovery.

Jerry Gillies

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.

Honor Harger

The study of celestial phenomena at radio wavelengths, radio astronomy came into being after the accidental discovery of cosmic radiation by radio engineer Karl Jansky in 1933.

Frederick Buechner

You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.

George Eliot

and we must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range of music, and will not vibrate in the least under a touch that fills others with tremulous rapture or quivering agony.

Francis Bacon

Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously.

Francis Bacon

...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.

If he can discover some kind of service on top of word processing that helps people work with one another over the Web, then he may be on to something.

And when they visit the mall, they may discover downtown.

Jerome Charyn

Emily Dickinson has haunted my life - her poems, her persona, all the tales about her solitude. Ever since I discovered her in the seventh grade, I've had a crush on that spinster in white, who had such a heroic and startling inner landscape of her own.

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.

Folks ... are not happy that there's a disconnect between where the leadership wants to go and where the general public is on education issues.

Even though the regular rate was slightly higher than expectations, right now the market is willing to discount the fact that energy prices are an important component. The reality is, it's an important sign and inflation is picking up. The fact is, people have to start taking a look at energy prices as a concern.

Everything you see was discovered by our divers. A lot of the items displayed are not identified because they've petrified.

As the military goes for fewer bases, there is an increasing disconnect between the military and the community.

As it always does, it will come down to starting pitching. I don't think you can discount a player because of youth.

Patrick White

In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.

I started to spend more time in the drawing and painting studio course. I thought it would be smart to get my teaching certificate, and upon taking some classes, I discovered I had a passion for teaching.

E. B. White

I started working for the Free-Lance Star in Fredericksburg, and they discovered that I could write.

Andy Williams

I've discovered that there's another way of living that I have never known. Things have changed.

Robert Smith

I've discovered special makeup by a company called M.A.C. You could wear it on the surface of the sun and it wouldn't move.

Mary E. Pearson

I've discovered I love the vast landscape a series offers. I tend to write long anyway, so, it turns out, series gives me the perfect vehicle for writing 'large' stories.

I understand their point of view. (Piazza is) a great player that they got at a discount price. How do you pass up on that?

We smelled fumes on the first and second floors. I opened the garage and discovered the bodies. They were nude.

We have to discount the teams they have played and just look at their production. We have to figure that were playing a pretty good football team.

Billy Graham

It (the Bible) has never bowed its head before the discoveries of science.

Barry Long

Truth has to be discovered now, from moment to moment.

Edmund Spenser

Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.

Stephen Jay Gould

[In natural history,] great discovery often requires a map to a hidden mine filled with gems then easily gathered by conventional tools, not a shiny new space-age machine for penetrating previously inaccessible worlds.

Dan Hill

You can tell black artists are front and centre when Usher discovers and launches Justin Bieber.

You can't discount any of the teams, because it's such a tough (area). It's all about who's going to show up, wrestle best, who's healthy and the top two teams will come out of there and they'll represent our (area) in the state.

You can measure a man by the opposition it takes to discourage him.