Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tina Fey

I think everyone's intentions are to become a performer at first. But by the time I was in high school and college, I discovered that I liked writing and that I was probably a little better at it.

Todd Rundgren

Every once in a while, we have some sort of movement in music that everyone suddenly wants to work in, like grunge or rap or disco or some other musical phase, and then suddenly, that'll be the thing to do.

Thomas Friedman

John Kennedy led us on a journey to discover the moon. Obama needs to lead us on a journey to rediscover, rebuild and reinvent our own backyard.

Charles Peguy

The references you do not verify are the good ones.

We met with them and discussed the purchase - if not the outright purchase of the whole property, then for parts of it.

Dennis Prager

If the 1,990-page House Health Care Bill becomes law, the average American will receive worse health care, American physicians will decline in status and income, American medical innovation will dramatically slow down and pharmaceutical discoveries will decline in number and quality. And, of course, the economy of the United States will deteriorate, perhaps permanently.

Dean Ornish

I usually find that the process of discovery is more interesting than the answers.

Dean Smith

The truly free person in society is a disciplined person.

Dimitar Sasselov

It feels great to discover a planet, just like any discovery in science, except that it has more of the feel of exploration - you can go back and look at it. However, I can never visit.

Dean Koontz

Of course, I don't know everything. Considering the infinite amount of knowledge that one could acquire in a virtually innumerable array of intellectual disciplines, it's probably more accurate to say that I don't know anything.

Daniel Goleman

Daydreaming incubates creative discovery.

Elizabeth I

Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.

Arthur Keith

This world of ours has been constructed like a superbly written novel: we pursue the tale with avidity, hoping to discover the plot.

Arthur Keith

Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.

Barbara Corcoran

Harebrained schemes often lead to great discoveries.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The "discovery" of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the "discovery" of America almost five hundred years earlier. In the case of each of these exotic terrains, plenty of people were on the site before the discoverers ever arrived.

Benjamin Graham

The best way to measure your investing success is not by whether you're beating the market but by whether you've put in place a financial plan and a behavioral discipline that are likely to get you where you want to go.

Somebody just said to me and I think it's true, 'We just ran out of time,' and that's not to discredit Maine.

Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

So many things that we don't have time to discuss them all.

Silk Road embodies the spirit of discovery and exchange. We want to encourage people to look for what unites them instead of what divides them.

Shortly after the plane took off, the pilot discovered that he may have a landing gear problem.

Nancy Keenan

She really was one of those cross-generational leaders. She was there to discuss the issue of keeping government out of our personal decisions.

Jamie Cullum

Most people in the U.K. discovered me playing a standard on Parkinson. In America, it was on VH1 singing an original called 'All At Sea,' which is a contemporary pop song. So the people that know me there tend to think of me in the singer/songwriter category.

Brian Greene

Before the discovery of quantum mechanics, the framework of physics was this: If you tell me how things are now, I can then use the laws of physics to calculate, and hence predict, how things will be later.

Brandon Marshall

I'm against discrimination in all forms.

Archimedes

Eureka! (I have found it!)

Archimedes

Eureka! [I have found it!] On discovery of a method to test the purity of gold.

Antoine Predock

I try to understand place on a deeper level than just the physical or environmental aspects. It includes cultural and intellectual forces, too. Its an inclusive approach that brings in many disciplines and sees place as a dynamic thing.

Barbara Kingsolver

Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.

This really is an exciting discovery. I'm still somewhat stunned they have such good data.

Arthur L. Herman

I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India.