Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Fitzgerald

Strange, is it not? That of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the Road Which to discover we must travel too.

And I seemed to discern a power and meaning in the old, which the more impassioned would not allow.

Carolyn Kizer

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

We discussed the Volcker report and its unsubstantiated references. We also discussed pressing foreign policy matters.

We discussed the rebounding troubles we had, and that they needed to stop. I told them that if I had to take the rebound from them, that's what I was going to do. We need rebounds.

We discussed that already. We're obviously going to go out on good terms. I want to be a part of the organization in some capacity. Hopefully, when the dust settles here we can talk about those things.

We discussed some specific ideas about how we could make the process move ahead.

Mike Gundy

We discussed it in a mature manner, and he handled it with integrity,

Derek Jeter

We discussed it briefly for about five minutes and I haven't heard anything else about it, ... It wasn't like a threat or anything like that. It was just a letter from some guy. I haven't even thought about it again.

We discussed it and we're going to exhaust all efforts and try to do it. If it fails, it fails. If it doesn't, it's more power to us." ()

Gary Bettman

We discussed a variety of options and I don't want to focus on any one because it would seriously be misconstrued and be potentially inflammatory,

We discussed a requirement that was originally missed. After a review, a mistake was realized.

We discover what we can do and then we go about finding if what we can do fits what we need to say.

Thomas Jefferson

We discover (in the gospels) a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication

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.

We discourage the armaments up here because it's not necessary on the northern border.

We disagreed with them that this disclosure was a productive exercise--how would it at all improve the situation on the Hudson?

We are not going to discuss this with that kind of people.

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.

Managing dissent is about recognizing the value of disagreement, discord and difference.

Lysander Spooner

Vices are usually pleasurable, at least for the time being, and often do not disclose themselves as vices, by their effects, until after they have been practised for many years; perhaps for a lifetime.

Alfred North Whitehead

The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.

Alexander Fleming

In my first publication I might have claimed that I had come to the conclusion, as a result of serious study of the literature and deep thought, that valuable antibacterial substances were made by moulds and that I set out to investigate the problem. That would have been untrue and I preferred to tell the truth that penicillin started as a chance observation. My only merit is that I did not neglect the observation and that I pursued the subject as a bacteriologist. My publication in 1929 was the starting-point of the work of others who developed penicillin especially in the chemical field.

Alexander Fleming

(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.

Aldo Leopold

The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism.