Famous Quotes & Sayings

Drake Bell

I was raised on Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly and discovered the Stray Cats when I was 11 or 12 years old.

Wayne Hale

If we had a catastrophic failure with Discovery, we'd need to figure out how to prevent that same problem from occurring on Atlantis.

Voltaire

If we do not find anything pleasant, at least we shall find something new

If we discover such laws are not in place, or are inadequate, or are not effectively enforced, we will take appropriate action.

She was discovered by a staff member at the hotel. There is no evidence of a struggle or forced entry.

Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Silk Road embodies the spirit of discovery and exchange. We want to encourage people to look for what unites them instead of what divides them.

Shortly after the plane took off, the pilot discovered that he may have a landing gear problem.

Cindy Busby

I have always enjoyed performing, but I think when I was in the fifth grade was when I discovered that I really loved acting.

Steve-O

I felt like it was inevitable that I was going to fail in life and die young. So I was frantically scrambling to document my stunts and pack my message into a bottle. I thought maybe I could be discovered after I'd died, like Van Gogh.

Tyler Oakley

I found a vlogger named William Sledd who talked about his life - it was very minimal edits. It was one of those things where I discovered him, and I was like, 'Oh my God, I'm obsessed with him.' I felt like I was friends with him. And he was a huge inspiration for why I made my first video.

Christopher Hitchens

The discovery there is no god is a great relief, because if there were, it would be like living in a celestial North Korea if there was one. You would never be able to escape.

Christopher Hitchens

We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more liberating, than the claims of any religion.

Herbert Hoover

The more one observes, the more clearly does he see that it is in the soil of pure science that are found the origins of all our modern industry and commerce. In fact,our civilization is wholly built upon our scientific discoveries.

Ernest Hemingway

that every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a marvelous discovery

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Orphei Drängar possesses a combination of power, energy, and culture. Joy of discovery combined with professional technical and musical prowess.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

I want to tell people approaching and perhaps fearing old age that it is a time of discovery. If they say "Of what?" I can only answer "We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn't be discovery."

Florida Scott-Maxwell

We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn't be discovery.

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.

Frances Mayes

I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have.

George Washington Carver

God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else?

George Washington Carver

We get closer to God as we get more intimately and understandingly acquainted with the things He has created. I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for one's self.

George Washington Carver

One reason I never patent my products is that if I did it would take so much time, I would get nothing else done. But mainly I don't want my discoveries to benefit specific favored persons.

G. H. Hardy

No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

It wasn't the New World that mattered...Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters, nothing but life — the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.

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.

Francoise Sagan

I found myself both touched and irritated by the discovery that she was vulnerable.

Discovery begins by finding the discoverer.

Christopher Columbus

It is easy to discover what another has discovered before.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.