Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Sheehan

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

Raina Telgemeier

Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun. Eventually, you write another book, and maybe your old books get a bump, but my books seem to keep being discovered and recommended to new people of all ages.

Brad Pitt

When I first moved to L.A., I discovered Roy London. I didn't know anything about the arts, the profession; I had no technique, I knew nothing, I'm fresh from Missouri. I sat in on a few classes, and they just felt a little guru-ish and just didn't feel right to me. Until I met Roy.

None of the great discoveries was made by a 'specialist' or a 'researcher'.

Olivia Newton-John

In June 1992, I discovered a lump in my breast. A subsequent mammogram, ultrasound and a needle biopsy proved negative. But my instinct said it still didn't feel right, so I had a lumpectomy. I then got the news that it was cancer.

Remy de Gourmont

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Barry Long

You are either ready to discover yourself or you are not. Ready means you have been knowingly or unknowingly practicing self-observation.

We wanted to make sure the kids and employees weren't put in harm's way once we discovered the materials were in the ground there.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

I have spent many years working in education and media, from hosting documentaries to being a spokesperson for Discovery Education to revolutionizing youth environmental service through my non-profit, EarthEcho International.

Paul Shaffer

When I discovered that I could tune into American radio stations after dark, this was the hippest thing to me. It sort of saved my life.

While every year the Festival evolves and has a different complexion, the through line is the discovery of fresh, original voices from around the world with quality storytelling that takes risks whether it be in dramatic or documentary films.

Jessye Norman

I would like to see more African-American singers as part of our opera companies. If you take music and the arts out of the public schools, then you're going to lose a lot of people that you might have discovered were talented, very early.

Chuck D.

You can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.

Bertrand Russell

The solution of the difficulties which formerly surrounded the mathematical infinite is probably the greatest achievement of which our age has to boast.

Zach Johnson

I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.

Steve Forbert

Rodgers was incredibly heroic, ... I wanted people to discover his music and also to know more about him.

Jimmy Carter

America has had the best university system in the world for a long time. And so we have been innovators, not only in the discoveries as proven by Nobel Prizes in chemistry and physics and that sort of thing, but we've been able to put that into practical application with new gadgets that people admire.

Taylor Branch

The lessons that come from discovery of the Movement's story should point us forward.

Robert Sean Leonard

The less I work, the happier I am. I discovered that, as most people discover at some point.

Plato

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

John O'Donohue

The hunger to belong is not merely a desire to be attached to something. It is rather sensing that great transformation and discovery become possible when belonging is sheltered and true.

The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific.

John Dewey

The outstanding problem of the Public is discovery and identification of itself

John Berger

A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.

Joe Harris

The 19th century was the great period of engineering, thanks to the railways, thanks to lots of discoveries in metallurgy.

Joan Miro

I work like a labourer on a farm or in a vineyard. Things come to me slowly. My vocabulary of forms, for instance, has not been the discovery of a day. It took shape in spite of myself... That is why I am always working on a hundred different things at the same time.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

What the English call "comfortable" is something endless and inexhaustible. Every condition of comfort reveals in turn its discomfort, and these discoveries go on for ever. Hence the new want is not so much a want of those who have it directly, but is created by those who hope to make profit from it.

Amoco-BP has shown the way, ... Big is better because you need more power to discover oil and you need more strength.

Edward Teller

[Chemistry] laboratory work was my first challenge. ... I still carry the scars of my first discovery-that test-tubes are fragile.

Edith Hamilton

They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery; and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world.

Hermann Hesse

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

I have always thought that clarity is a form of courtesy that the philosopher owes; moreover, this discipline of ours considers it more truly a matter of honor today than ever before to be open to all minds ... This is different from the individual sciences which increasingly [interpose] between the treasure of their discoveries and the curiosity of the profane the tremendous dragon of their closed terminology.

Napoleon Hill

We do not have to wait for future discoveries in connection with the powers of the human mind for evidence that the mind is the greatest force known to mankind. We know, now, that any idea, aim or purpose that is fixed in the mind and held there with a will to achieve or attain its physical or material equivalent, puts into motion powers that cannot be conquered.