Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Congreve

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.

Jonathan Miller

You have to look at the opera as not being about fidelity, but who you think you are and what happens when you pretend to be someone else and you discover you are that someone else.

You may discover patterns over time to find out what that person is up to.

We smelled fumes on the first and second floors. I opened the garage and discovered the bodies. They were nude.

There's often a gross disconnect between the public persona that people present and what their values actually are. The person that shows up for a focus group is often at variance from who people are in their private life.

There's no way you can discourage kids from going out and partying, so we want to encourage people to be as safe as possible.

I started to spend more time in the drawing and painting studio course. I thought it would be smart to get my teaching certificate, and upon taking some classes, I discovered I had a passion for teaching.

E. B. White

I started working for the Free-Lance Star in Fredericksburg, and they discovered that I could write.

Andy Williams

I've discovered that there's another way of living that I have never known. Things have changed.

Robert Smith

I've discovered special makeup by a company called M.A.C. You could wear it on the surface of the sun and it wouldn't move.

Mary E. Pearson

I've discovered I love the vast landscape a series offers. I tend to write long anyway, so, it turns out, series gives me the perfect vehicle for writing 'large' stories.

We have to discount the teams they have played and just look at their production. We have to figure that were playing a pretty good football team.

We're very pleased and looking forward to the discovery.

The irony is we went way out of the world and had to learn worldly skills to survive out there. What people who understand us discover is we have experts is every field of human endeavor.

John Butler

The issue is whether discovery is relevant here.

Asa Gray

Increased powers of investigation- microscopical and chemical- might be expected to discover them. This expectation has not been fulfilled.

Stephen Corry

India used to trade at a discount to the region, and now it trades at a slight premium. Earnings growth remains pretty solid, but it's starting to slow.

Jake Bugg

YouTube is a good way to discover new music now because it comes up with that thing at the side with other artists you might like.

Jean Giraudoux

Not through discovery but through our fathomlessness do we move confidently through life.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner

The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.

It's important for them to discover and identify who they are.

Mitch Daniels

It's a real privilege I've discovered comes with having a job like this, ... If you take the time to just spend a full minute with someone rather than five seconds, you've become part of a really memorable experience for them.

Mike Fratello

It is what it is. There was some discomfort there, so I'm concerned.

Joe Torre

It's tough to explain. You can mention a lot of things, and I can't discount any of them.

For history, we start with the American Indians and then who discovered America. It's really kind of fun when we get to the Mexican American war because they have a lot to offer from a different perspective.

Bill Cowher

I kind of thought it up. I think it's a great analogy. I got screwed up in some of the details. I know that he discovered the West Indies, it wasn't America. I said periscope one time instead of saying telescope; they thought it was a submarine the other day.

In general, you're not going to get a great discount in a great location, right where your job is, a place that you really want to buy.

Jon Scieszka

The big problem is just this kind of gigantic piece, of kids reading less and liking it less and so getting worse at it. It's kind of this terrible spiral: Since they're not so good at it they do less of it, get worse at it, do less of it. And it's really what I discovered five, six years ago when I started the 'Guys Read' thing.

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.

There's a joke in the fixed income world that the PPI and CPI excluding everything is zero. But you can't really discount everything, ... I'm not trying to be alarmist but the market is underestimating the inflation risk in the economy.

James Rhodes

They realize there's a lot more involved. Others come to realize it's not for them. We would rather have them discover it early on ? that's exploring.

If you discover it, it won't let you get rid of it by just shutting it off,