Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Pais

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.

Claire Danes

You don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself one and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of.

George Benson

I actually got discovered in my hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by a man who worked at a place that sold barbecue sandwiches!

Samuel Smiles

We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools.

Beeban Kidron

I've discovered my Jewishness late in life. And I've really enjoyed exploring that world.

We do discourage playing one off the other,

Sara Zarr

Making lists of favorite things is, for me, a task ridden with anxiety. What if I've accidentally excluded something I love? What if I discover something new tomorrow that I love even more?

A. A. Milne

One of the advantages of being disorganized is the joy of discovery.

Adrian Bejan

Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen.

Adam Shankman

The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there.

We're doing that party, clubby, disco thing -- so much so, that we're thinking of doing some really small gigs. That's one of my goals for this year, to do some really small gigs. They're a lot more intimate and the people there will be right into it.

Wadah Khanfar

I discovered that, in order to write a magnificent piece, you should shoot the images because once you are filming, you are writing the script in your mind.

Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.

Cory Booker

I don't know what God has planned for me or you or anyone, but I do know that in darkness, you discover an indistinguishable light.

Kevin Nealon

When you discover that you are going to have a child, it stirs up memories of your own childhood.

Nick Park

I went back over the sketch books I'd filled at Sheffield for ideas and discovered Wallace and Gromit, except Gromit was a cat then. I made them into Plasticene shapes and started 'A Grand Day Out.' It took me longer than I expected.

Svante Paabo

I really wanted to discover mummies, like Indiana Jones.

Trent Reznor

I think the reason I was 23 before I ever wrote a song was that I was afraid of testing myself. What would I do if I discovered I didn't have anything to say?

Andrew Cohen

I think at the end of the day, the jury feels sorry for her a little bit, with all the emotional and mental problems she's had, the physical problems, and I think they discount her testimony in total.

P. J. O'Rourke

Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one presidential candidate from the stink of another.

I discovered early in my career as an entrepreneur that I'm not good at many things, and I said 'I need help.'

Cynthia Ozick

There's a paradox in rereading. You read the first time for rediscovery: an encounter with the confirming emotions. But you reread for discovery: you go to the known to figure out the workings of the unknown, the why of the familiar how.

Cynthia Ozick

The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.

Haruki Murakami

Whenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was unable to do before. With each new work, I move up a step and discover something new inside me.

Iain Banks

I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.

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.

Frank Welker

I've been doing voices as long as I can remember. When I was little I could pick up on sounds, and then I discovered you could distort what you hear and make people laugh or disrupt a class.

Edwin Morgan

I just discovered when I was, oh, 12 or 13, that I was very interested in language - and this showed itself as poetry. There was no looking back.

Fabiola Gianotti

The top quark was discovered in 1995, and since then, the Higgs has become our obsession because the standard model was incomplete without it.