Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Jay Gould

[In natural history,] great discovery often requires a map to a hidden mine filled with gems then easily gathered by conventional tools, not a shiny new space-age machine for penetrating previously inaccessible worlds.

Horace

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

Algernon Blackwood

I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns.

We need to have a post mortem discovery of why the trial went on for such a long time, why the prosecution was not more selective.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

All of us want something in life, all of us have flaws, and all of us have strengths. So, I always try to discover those things in a character and then try to expose it in one way or another.

Andre Rieu

I was so busy with my studies that I didn't have a musical idol as a teenager. Later, around my 20s, I suddenly discovered the Beatles and the Rolling Stones but I guess my musical idol has always been Strauss.

John Lasseter

I can't tell you, as a parent, how it feels when the doctor tells you your child has diabetes. First off, you don't really know much about it. Then you discover there is no cure.

John Humphrys

When ministers leave government we discover that there are all sorts of things they said in government that they did not actually believe,

Finance 101 will tell you, if you take the value of her figure skating revenue streams and discount it, this is a multimillion-dollar disappointment.

Experience needs distance and what you write of at a distance tells not so much what you were like as what you have discovered since.

Robert Burns

Fain would I hide what I fear to discover

Penelope Cruz

I was raised Catholic, but then I discovered Buddhism, and I used to have a boyfriend who was a Scientologist, and they are all good religions that help people. As far as I'm concerned, you can have all three religions at once and it's okay!

Michael Pitt

'Boardwalk' begins literally on the first day of Prohibition, which I think was a wonderful way to start - to have the story kind of come out of this massive historical phenomenon. And the more I researched the '20s, the more I discovered just how interesting it was.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

We're put here on Earth to learn our own lessons. No one can tell you what your lessons are; it is part of your personal journey to discover them. On these journeys we may be given a lot, or just a little bit, of the things we must grapple with, but never more than we can handle.

Carl Jung

A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

Jacob Bronowski

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

Blaise Pascal

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.

Aristotle

In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies.

Anupam Kher

I speak for Kashmiri pundits because injustice has been done to them, and the political discourse doesn't give them enough importance.

When you enter the room, you get a feel for the elements that you have to discover on your own; it's like stepping into a character's own unique world.

Bill Evans

When you play music you discover a part of yourself that you never knew existed.

Leaks are not the problem; they are the symptom. They reveal a disconnect between what people want and need to know and what they actually do know. The greater the secrecy, the more likely a leak.

With our method, over the next 10 years it could increase the number of new planets discovered to 10,000 or more.

When the employee discount plans are removed there will be a lull. Things tend to even out. September might be an interesting month to look at.

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

Dan Hill

You can tell black artists are front and centre when Usher discovers and launches Justin Bieber.

You can't discount any of the teams, because it's such a tough (area). It's all about who's going to show up, wrestle best, who's healthy and the top two teams will come out of there and they'll represent our (area) in the state.

You can measure a man by the opposition it takes to discourage him.

We've got 200 years' worth of scientific discovery and equipment locked away in the basement. All those items - around 6,000 objects - will be put on display.

Will Rogers

Wrigley was the first man to discover that American jaws must wag; so why not give them something to wag against.

John Garfield

To my surprise, I discovered that I could act, and I liked it even better than boxing.