Famous Quotes & Sayings

Taylor Branch

The lessons that come from discovery of the Movement's story should point us forward.

Robert Sean Leonard

The less I work, the happier I am. I discovered that, as most people discover at some point.

The legal landscape has tilted dramatically. We have to work with everyone to discourage this.

The leagues, especially the NFL, don't want to discount their product for a particular market,

Plato

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

Chris Stringer

The discovery that early humans could have existed this far north this long ago was startling.

THE discovery of Truth is the unique mission of man. Man is a mixture of Maya and Madhava; the Maya throws a mist which hides the Madhava.

The disconnect was, people thought there was some federal expertise out there. There wasn't. Not from you.

The disconnect is not between us and forecasters, it's between us and people in general.

Amoco-BP has shown the way, ... Big is better because you need more power to discover oil and you need more strength.

Simone de Beauvoir

Science condemns itself to failure when, yielding to the infatuation of the serious, it aspires to attain being, to contain it, and to possess it; but it finds its truth if it considers itself as a free engagement of thought in the given, aiming, at each discovery, not at fusion with the thing, but at the possibility of new discoveries; what the mind then projects is the concrete accomplishment of its freedom.

Rem Koolhaas

That has been another interesting discovery: that basically a city [Lagos] could recover from a really deep, deep, deep pit.

Satyajit Ray

Bicycle Thief is a triumphant discovery of the fundamentals of cinema, and De Sica has openly acknowledged his debt to Chaplin.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist

Shannyn Sossamon

Televisison is like a factory line. You need discipline and focus. You have to hit your mark and know your lines. It's not that I don't know my lines when I do a film, but the pace of discovery is always a little bit more relaxed and nurturing and almost babying, in a way. Television toughens you up, and I like that, but I don't want it to toughen me up too much.

Lewis Mumford

The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.

Peter Tork

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

Peter Gabriel

I was introduced to lots of great music through my local record store. It was a place where people knew music and they knew me, and could make great suggestions and discoveries. Whether it is in the physical world or on-line, the value of a great and knowledgeable record store has not gone away

Phil Crosby

The great discoveries are usually obvious.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Let us keep the discoveries and indisputable measurements of physics. But ... A more complete study of the movements of the world will oblige us, little by little, to turn it upside down; in other words, to discover that if things hold and hold together, it is only by reason of complexity, from above.

Jacques Lacan

The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.

Hector Hugh Munro

Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world.

Nate Berkus

You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things.

Milan Kundera

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.

Joseph Addison

Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation or the continuance of his species.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

I have always thought that clarity is a form of courtesy that the philosopher owes; moreover, this discipline of ours considers it more truly a matter of honor today than ever before to be open to all minds ... This is different from the individual sciences which increasingly [interpose] between the treasure of their discoveries and the curiosity of the profane the tremendous dragon of their closed terminology.

John Charles Polanyi

It is folly to use as one's guide in the selection of fundamental science the criterion of utility. Not because (scientists)... despise utility. But because. .. useful outcomes are best identified after the making of discoveries, rather than before.

The luxury stores are the ones hitting the home runs and the discount stores are going to end up doing some pretty good numbers, ... I'm very worried that the middle part of the market is not here.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching.

Talcott Parsons

A scientifically unimportant discovery is one which, however true and however interesting for other reasons, has no consequences for a system of theory with which scientists in that field are concerned.

Peter Agre

It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science.