Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Thompson

They can't understand what you're doing and why you're saying what you're saying, and that might be the problem with the Discovery Institute.

Sathya Baba

The Veda existed long before it was discovered and put into practice.

They can they discover it's something that is going to make them feel better and give them more energy.

John Manley

They are (trading) at a 40 percent discount to the market, ... That's a pretty big discount.

George Takei

They are the real ones. We were the future fiction version and they're the ones that are making whatever we did credible. It's their heroism, their commitment, their discipline and their victory that's going to make the Starship Enterprise that much more credible.

Stanley Williams

They would try at every turn to discredit me, but I was game,

They'll be talking about a full range of security issues. Clearly, we'll also discuss Taiwan, but that's not the focus.

They helped to get Discover Brokerage on the map,

It was mentioned as something they had discussed not something that they issued as a threat.

Gillian Jacobs

I've gotten super into restaurants in L.A., so I try to go to different restaurants all the time... that's a good way to explore L.A.: you can drive to a restaurant and discover a new neighborhood.

Jamie Cullum

Oh, I was a real Nirvana kid. I got into jazz because I listened to a lot of metal, Megadeth and that, and those guys play really fast and are virtuosos. I wanted to learn more about it, and I discovered that a lot of jazz guys played really fast, too.

Samuel Johnson

No man forgets his original trade: the rights of nations and of kings sink into questions of grammar, if grammarians discuss them

It was a 2003 Fleetwood Discovery, a 40-footer.

Brent Sutter

It's how we play as a team, the discipline in our own game.

It's hard to know what a private equity firm is going to pay. They want to get it for a discount so they can repackage it and sell it at a premium.

It's been a trying weekend because there was a lot of discussion with a lot of teams. I hoped when I put him back on waivers, because of all the discussions I was having with those teams, that someone would take him.

It's become a way of life here. There's very little discussion about it anymore.

Darin Strauss

It's good training for a novelist to try to discern the truth about a place after only a few glimpses of it.

Ray Bradbury

All education is self-discovery.

Rami Malek

I do it when I'm a preparing for a role quite a bit - I sit with music. It helps influence the discovery of something. Then sometimes during filming I like to listen to the same things. It brings me back to a place where I just feel more creative and focused.

Michael Polanyi

Discoveries are made by pursuing possibilities suggested by existing knowledge.

Michael Pollan

I made the unexpected but happy discovery that the answer to several of the questions that most occupied me was in fact one and the same: Cook.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

But perhaps the truth newly discovered is itself only temporary and when new discoveries are made these truths too will be abandoned. But one truth remains for ever, and that is the search for truth.

Nhat Hanh

Find joy and peace in this very moment.

Noam Chomsky

Precisely constructed models for linguistic structure can play an important role, both negative and positive, in the process of discovery itself. By pushing a precise but inadequate formulation to an unacceptable conclusion, we can often expose the exact source of this inadequacy and, consequently, gain a deep understanding of the linguistic data. More positively, a formalized theory may automatically provide solutions for many problems other than those for which it was explicitly designed.

Pat Summitt

Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.

Theodor Adorno

Freud made the discovery- quite genuinely, simply through working on his own material- that the more deeply one explores the phenomena of human individuation, the more unreservedly one grasps the individual as a self-contained and dynamic entity, the closer one draws to that in the individual which is really no longer individual.

Terry Pratchett

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.

Margaret Drabble

There would be more genuine rejoicing at the discovery of a complete new novel by Jane Austen than any other literary discovery, short of a new major play by Shakespeare.

Margaret J. Wheatley

We can no longer stand at the end of something we visualized in detail and plan backwards from that future. Instead we must stand at the beginning, clear in our mind, with a willingness to be involved in discovery... it asks that we participate rather than plan.

Michael Faraday

Why, sir, there is every probability that you will soon be able to tax it! Said to William Gladstone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he asked about the practical worth of electricity.

Leonhard Euler

In the meantime, most noble Sir, you have assigned this question to the geometry of position, but I am ignorant as to what this new discipline involves, and as to which types of problem Leibniz and Wolff expected to see expressed in this way.

Leonhard Euler

Thus you see, most noble Sir, how this type of solution to the Königsberg bridge problem bears little relationship to mathematics, and I do not understand why you expect a mathematician to produce it, rather than anyone else, for the solution is based on reason alone, and its discovery does not depend on any mathematical principle...