Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jennifer Haigh

I believed, after writing 'Mrs. Kimble,' that I knew how to write a novel. I quickly discovered that I only knew how to write that novel. 'Baker Towers' was a different beast entirely; and I felt as though I had to learn to write all over again.

Karen Russell

I remember writing these terrible poems when I was, like, nine and discovered alliteration.

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.

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.

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.

Ivar Giaever

When I was 28 years old, I found myself in Schenectady, New York, where I discovered that it was possible for some people to make a good living as physicists.

I work only in the morning from 10 to noon. I still write by hand. I interrupt my writing when I feel that I've discovered something beautiful or, on the contrary, when I feel discontent.

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.

Olivia Newton-John

In June 1992, I discovered a lump in my breast. A subsequent mammogram, ultrasound and a needle biopsy proved negative. But my instinct said it still didn't feel right, so I had a lumpectomy. I then got the news that it was cancer.

We wanted to make sure the kids and employees weren't put in harm's way once we discovered the materials were in the ground there.

Paul Shaffer

When I discovered that I could tune into American radio stations after dark, this was the hippest thing to me. It sort of saved my life.

With our method, over the next 10 years it could increase the number of new planets discovered to 10,000 or more.

Experience needs distance and what you write of at a distance tells not so much what you were like as what you have discovered since.

Michael Pitt

'Boardwalk' begins literally on the first day of Prohibition, which I think was a wonderful way to start - to have the story kind of come out of this massive historical phenomenon. And the more I researched the '20s, the more I discovered just how interesting it was.

Carl Jung

A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

Blaise Pascal

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.

Barry Long

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

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.

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.

Algernon Blackwood

I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns.

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,