Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tift Merritt

In France, I discovered that I love writing in the city. There's such an intensity to being in the city that matches the intensity of what you're experiencing in your head.

John Updike

For many years, I read mystery novels for relaxation. But my tastes were too narrow - and, having read all of Agatha Christie and John Dickson Carr, I discovered that the implausibility and the thinness of the people distracted me unduly from the plot.

Kim Cattrall

I enjoyed making people laugh. I discovered that I loved that power over them. On stage, I felt I could really express who I was for the first time.

Kathryn Harrison

I used to enjoy reading true crime, but I've discovered that I don't have the journalism nose for blood.

When I was 16, I really discovered good stuff like Detroit techno or gabba from Holland.

Stefan Sagmeister

I had discovered that I'm much less special than I thought I am. So whatever I find true for myself, other people might also relate to.

Nick Park

I went back over the sketch books I'd filled at Sheffield for ideas and discovered Wallace and Gromit, except Gromit was a cat then. I made them into Plasticene shapes and started 'A Grand Day Out.' It took me longer than I expected.

Trent Reznor

I think the reason I was 23 before I ever wrote a song was that I was afraid of testing myself. What would I do if I discovered I didn't have anything to say?

I discovered early in my career as an entrepreneur that I'm not good at many things, and I said 'I need help.'

Wadah Khanfar

I discovered that, in order to write a magnificent piece, you should shoot the images because once you are filming, you are writing the script in your mind.

George Benson

I actually got discovered in my hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by a man who worked at a place that sold barbecue sandwiches!

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools.

Beeban Kidron

I've discovered my Jewishness late in life. And I've really enjoyed exploring that world.

Ira Sachs

I started making movies in the early '90s, a few years after I discovered 'the cinema' during a three month stay in Paris during which I watched 100s of films.

Carolyn Kizer

I discovered it was easier to carry around a pen than a piano.

We discovered we shared the love of cooking. It was actually in second grade, and we said when we grew up we should start a restaurant.

We discovered we have a quarterback who can run,

We discovered these people are for real and very important,

We discovered there was a gap. We started working with employers on how they could comply, and as a result, collections just skyrocketed.

Dick Armey

We discovered that Elvis had left the building,

We discovered serious misconduct and a loss of moral values,

We discovered it on March 29. She was gone when we found it.

We discovered for the umpteenth time that what matters most for most Americans is the labor market.

Michael W. Smith

We discovered a new species literally every day we were there.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

But being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.

Brad Pitt

When I first moved to L.A., I discovered Roy London. I didn't know anything about the arts, the profession; I had no technique, I knew nothing, I'm fresh from Missouri. I sat in on a few classes, and they just felt a little guru-ish and just didn't feel right to me. Until I met Roy.

Brian Baker

Some of our test families didn't think they had a problem and just used the reporting feature, but they discovered they had a real problem.

Jasmine Tookes

I was actually discovered while at a showroom appointment and was immediately sent over to an agency in L.A. I was about 15 years old at that time.

Our normal watering restrictions were put in place during the severe water shortage of the early 1990s. But over time we have discovered that to water more than twice a week is wasteful and does no more good for the vegetation. So what once were water-shortage restrictions are now regular and in-place year round.

Wendy Kopp

There is a perception in our communities that we have low educational outcomes in low-income communities because kids aren't motivated or families don't care. We've discovered that is not the case.

They studio were flabbergasted when they discovered how interested everybody was in 'those old people.' And now many upcoming projects feature older people; it's become a trend.

Jessye Norman

I would like to see more African-American singers as part of our opera companies. If you take music and the arts out of the public schools, then you're going to lose a lot of people that you might have discovered were talented, very early.

Nonsense is a kind of exuberant capering round a discovered truth.