Famous Quotes & Sayings

A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true. And this is the reason for the fragmentary character of those poems.

Iain McGilchrist

It is not rational to assume, without evidence, that rationality can disclose everything about the world, just because it can disclose some things. Our intuition in favour of rationality, where we are inclined to use it, is just that - an intuition. Reason is founded in intuition and ends in intuition, like a pair of massive bookends.

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.

Eric Braeden

To support my brothers and me, my mother got a job so menial that we never discussed it.

Flea

Lucky enough, through the public school system, I had been able to have some music education, and that gave me something to focus on, and discipline - like a family to feel part of. There was a healthy family.

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.

Edwin Morgan

I just discovered when I was, oh, 12 or 13, that I was very interested in language - and this showed itself as poetry. There was no looking back.

David Ogilvy

Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his sonnets dull? Mozart wrote his sonatas within an equally rigid discipline - exposition, development, and recapitulation. Were they dull?.

Daisy Fuentes

Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents.

Dag Hammarskjold

I never discuss discussions.

Edward Witten

You have that one basic string, but it can vibrate in many ways. But we're trying to get a lot of particles because experimental physicists have discovered a lot of particles.

Elaine Pagels

The Gospel of Judas really has been a surprise in many ways. For one thing, there's no other text that suggests that Judas Iscariot was an intimate, trusted disciple, one to whom Jesus revealed the secrets of the kingdom, and that conversely, the other disciples were misunderstanding what he meant by the gospel.

I didn't intend 'Hector' to be a self-help book when I first started writing. I wrote it as a little tale about a psychiatrist, like me, who sets off around the world in order to discover the vital ingredients for happiness.

Barton Gellman

Snowden has been very sparing about discussing his early life or his personal life.

Barry Ritholtz

Whenever you hear a discussion about the short-term swings in any given stock's price, your immediate thought should be whether it matters to why you are investing.

Rosamunde Pilcher

The two most wonderful things in life are money and sex, but the minute you start discussing them, they become b-o-r-i-n-g.

We've been discussing the viability of a pool for four months.

James Wolfensohn

We've been discussing (these points) for 20 weeks and have yet to reach finality.

We've been discussing it and we do know that there is stuff going on everywhere but we are wondering why there seems to be so many instances here.

Robert Morgan

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.

Robert Morgan

I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.

We've worked with many other states and we've said, 'Let us come in and help. We want to be a partner on this. If Governor Gregoire is interested in having a discussion with us at the table, we'd sure love to be there.

Cullen Hightower

Our freedom to discipline ourselves is a freedom we can lose if we don't use it.

Clint Eastwood

If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

David Attenborough

The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find a missing link and put it in the story, you suddenly need all these other missing links to connect to the new discovery. The gaps and questions actually increase - it's extraordinary.

Dashiell Hammett

...What disturbed him was the discovery that in sensibly ordering his affairs he had got out of step, and not into step, with Life.

Dave Brubeck

Jazz is about freedom within discipline.

David Zaslav

If you wake up in Moscow and put on the Science channel, it doesn't feel like an American channel, it feels like their channel. In fact, Discovery is Vladimir Putin's favorite channel.

Confucius

He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment.

Daniel Yergin

According to one study by the United States Geological survey, 86 percent of oil reserves in the United States are the result not of what is estimated at the time of discovery but of the revisions and additions that come with further development.

Dane Cook

I'm watching some television tonight. I'm watching The Discovery Channel. You know, this channel, you never ever plan on watching this. It just happens. You're flickin' around, all of a sudden - boom - you're watching a mole for an hour-and-a-half.

Dallas Willard

I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.

We have filed a proposal for the discount to our headquarters (in Seattle, the United States) and it is now being finalized.