Famous Quotes & Sayings

None of us want what we discussed here. It's the most likely scenario, but it's not what we wish for.

Bill Blair

No one should doubt my resolve to maintain discipline in this service.

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

No, no way. There's not even been discussion of it.

Only after that I can disclose any facts and details.

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.

Lev Vygotsky

Love can reach the same level of talent, and even genius, as the discovery of differential calculus.

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.

We are here to discuss the itinerary as well.

We are here to discuss security and venue assessment, and will tour all the venues of the series.

We did not ever get to the point where we had to discuss that. From our point of view, it was important to get it done now to stay away from that question.

We did discuss a number of proposals, and in the end, they liked the qualifying offer. We're very happy to have him back.

Jamie Wyeth

Painting is as difficult as brain surgery. It's not that relaxing. But that's the discipline.

James Young

Being in the studio is okay but sitting in a room by yourself composing is a discipline that takes a certain type of mind set and Tommy has a great gift for that as did the previous guy.

Jared Diamond

Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as the average human.

The cliché of the 'Eureka!' moment easily obscures the doubt and uncertainty that are also part of the discovery process.

Janet Frame

The strain of constant adaptation to so many fearful events and discoveries is already too much to bear with sanity; one has to keep pretending to slip successfully into the new mould; a time will come when the tailored and camouflaged mind breaks beneath the burden; the stick insect in our brains no longer cares to resemble a twig on the same habitual human tree in the mere hope that it may survive extinction.

Lisa Randall

In the history of physics, every time we've looked beyond the scales and energies we were familiar with, we've found things that we wouldn't have thought were there. You look inside the atom, and eventually you discover quarks. Who would have thought that?

What we're going to see, hopefully, in the next eight or nine months is a lot of ideas. There's going to be a lot of discussion about Alberta, and I personally relish that thought.

I apologized to my team for my lack of discipline, and then I went on the radio and apologized there. It reflects poorly on the program and I think we have a good program.

But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day.

But this time, because of the lockout, we had the whole year to sink our teeth into it. We discussed it with players, coaches, refs and managers, and this was (the edict) to come down.

But this doesn't discourage me from living here at all. This could have happened anywhere.

Eric Ries

Building the right product requires systematically and relentlessly testing that vision to discover which elements of it are brilliant, and which are crazy.

But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter that he goeth before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto you.

George Lucas

I'm also extremely grateful that I discovered my passion. I love movies. I love to watch them, I love to make them.

Kelvin Sampson

I'm a huge proponent of weight training. We lift at 6 because of the work ethic required, the discipline and doing the right thing. It makes them accountable. It makes them be on time.

Judith Hoag

My advice to new actors is: Don't be lazy. Go after what you desire. Don't heed the commonplace advice that is meant to discourage you. If you want it, go and get it. Be willing to work hard, and be patient. Be kind to yourself.

Mortgage rates remained fairly stable this week as the financial markets tried to discern just how quickly the economy is growing and how sustainable that growth will be.

My guys didn't come on time to get taped, so the five guys that were here started. It's a discipline thing.

Johann Lamont

My granny would come out and stay with us in the winter, and we would listen to the reports from the coastal stations and have a discussion in the middle of Glasgow about what the weather was like in Tiree.

Helen Keller

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.