Famous Quotes & Sayings

Judith Hoag

My advice to new actors is: Don't be lazy. Go after what you desire. Don't heed the commonplace advice that is meant to discourage you. If you want it, go and get it. Be willing to work hard, and be patient. Be kind to yourself.

Helen Keller

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

NSW will also be strong but you can't discount the other teams. NSW and Tasmania won the two competitions last year and nobody would have picked them at the start of the season.

Obviously there is an overwhelming number of female victims, we can't discount that, however, at this point there is no specific focus looking into racial or sexual motivation-- specifically looking into specific relationships between individual victims and the suspect, and the overall state of mind of the suspect.

Deepak Chopra

You are not creating a new you; you are releasing a hidden you. The process is one of self discovery. The hidden you that wants to emerge is in perfect balance.

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.

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.

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.

Archimedes

Eureka! (I have found it!)

Archimedes

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

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.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest.

Samuel Coleridge

Let every bookworm, when in any fragrant, scarce, old tome he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it

She was discovered by a staff member at the hotel. There is no evidence of a struggle or forced entry.

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.

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.

Edsger Dijkstra

[Though computer science is a fairly new discipline, it is predominantly based on the Cartesian world view. As Edsgar W. Dijkstra has pointed out] A scientific discipline emerges with the - usually rather slow! - discovery of which aspects can be meaningfully 'studied in isolation for the sake of their own consistency.

Richard Flanagan

A novel is a journey into your own soul, and you seek there to discover those things that you share with all others.

Richard P. Feynman

You're unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

Halle Berry

You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.

Ivar Giaever

When I was 28 years old, I found myself in Schenectady, New York, where I discovered that it was possible for some people to make a good living as physicists.

I work only in the morning from 10 to noon. I still write by hand. I interrupt my writing when I feel that I've discovered something beautiful or, on the contrary, when I feel discontent.

Abraham Lincoln

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

The only dancing I did was at the discotheques. I was a very good disco dancer. I say that I learned disco dancing at the wrong places.

Chris Crutcher

'Deadline' is the story of a young man forced to discover who he is, and what's important in life, during the short span of his senior year in high school.

Dave Brubeck

When you start out with goals - mine were to play polytonally and polyrhythmically - you never exhaust that. I started doing that in the 1940s. It's still a challenge to discover what can be done with just those two elements.

Natalie Massenet

As much as I love to shop online, I also love walking the streets on a beautiful day and seeing what finds I can discover in a small shop or vintage store.

will.i.am

Electro is today's disco - making electronic music not for the sake of selling it but for sharing it and touring around the world D.J.-ing.