Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel Onfray

I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read 'wildly,' and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.

Anne Beatts

There are some famous people, and I've met them, who you might think are great, and then you meet them, and you discover that they not only have feet but heads of clay.

Carl Jung

Securities, certitudes and peace do not lead to discoveries.

Carl Jung

All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the gods as psychic factors, which is to say, as archetypes of the unconscious. No doubt this discovery is hardly credible as yet.

Calvin Trillin

It happens to be a matter of record that I was first in print with the discovery that the tastelessness of the food offered in American clubs varies in direct proportion to the exclusiveness of the club.

William Shakespeare

Write till your ink be dry, and with your tearsMoist it again, and frame some feeling lineThat may discover such integrity.

Billy Sheehan

I plan on doing a lot more work on my own, and discovering and doing more.

Paul Greengard

What this discovery showed was that p11 plays a major role in mood.

When we did that, we found that putting a little nitrogen in these molecules explained the troubling molecules. This discovery takes this reservoir of molecules that we didn't think were interesting and transforms all this stuff into something of biologic interest.

What happens is the principals hide the job during the placement of the consolidated teachers. Then, once they're gone, they magically discover they have that job.

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.

Sidney Altman

At the MRC laboratory I started the work that led to the discovery of RNase P and the enzymatic properties of the RNA subunit of that enzyme.

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.

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.

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.

It was a 2003 Fleetwood Discovery, a 40-footer.

Mohammed Dahlan

It's time for you to discover the suffering of being in government.

Robert Benchley

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous

It took us a while to discover exactly what that right number was, but I think at this point we know.

Richard Thompson

They can't understand what you're doing and why you're saying what you're saying, and that might be the problem with the Discovery Institute.

Sathya Baba

The Veda existed long before it was discovered and put into practice.

They can they discover it's something that is going to make them feel better and give them more energy.

They helped to get Discover Brokerage on the map,

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.

Dmitri Mendeleev

We must expect the discovery of many as yet unknown elements-for example, elements analogous to aluminum and silicon- whose atomic weight would be between 65 and 75.

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

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.