Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Clayton Christensen

I promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life purpose, they'll look back on it as the most important thing they discovered while at school. If they don't figure it out, they will just sail off without a rudder and get buffeted in the very rough seas of life.

Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.

I like to tell people that I discovered (Hansen), ... Alas, he was already discovered when I first met him. He is an excellent historian who has made an enviable reputation for himself.

If Pluto was discovered today, it would not be a planet.

Jay McInerney

I don't think I found my voice until I reached New York. I suppose it's possible I would have had some kind of different literary career if I had not discovered New York.

I had to figure it out for myself, so I started reading Kodak books, ... I really enjoyed it when I finally discovered what I was doing.

Cheech Marin

By the time I discovered Chicano painters in the mid-'80s, I recognized that these guys were really world-class painters, but they weren't getting any attention, which was good in one sense in that I could get their work for cheaper!

Jerome Charyn

Emily Dickinson has haunted my life - her poems, her persona, all the tales about her solitude. Ever since I discovered her in the seventh grade, I've had a crush on that spinster in white, who had such a heroic and startling inner landscape of her own.

Charles Kennedy

As I spread my wings in politics, I discovered many Thatcher voters down south who were the same kind of people who loathed her in Scotland. They were puzzled by the Scots' antipathy, given the Falklands war and the strong militaristic history of the Highlands and elsewhere.

John Garfield

To my surprise, I discovered that I could act, and I liked it even better than boxing.

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.

Michael Turner

The team has discovered the most Earth-like planet yet, and more importantly, has demonstrated the power of a new technique that is sensitive to detecting habitable planets.

Michael Turner

The team has discovered the most Earthlike planet yet.

This was the week that the administration discovered the tide wouldn't come in forever on presidential powers. Partly, that is because so much time has passed without a new attack. And partly, it is because there were so many missteps.

It was here that he discovered his mission.

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.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner

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

Caterina Murino

It was in England that I discovered theatre. I didn't have any money, but I would just eat yoghurt in order to get some money for tickets.

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.

Kinky Friedman

It seems to me the governor has just discovered we have a border.

It wasn't until quite late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, "I don't know

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say 'I don't know'

Everything you see was discovered by our divers. A lot of the items displayed are not identified because they've petrified.

Andy Borowitz

I wanted to get away from big, expensive network projects, ... so I moved to New York and I did nothing. And then I discovered the Internet. I didn't think of it as a moneymaker -- I wrote stuff I thought my friends would find funny.

An educated man is one who has finally discovered that there are some questions to which nobody has the answer.

Tristram Stuart

As human pastoralists discovered 8,000 years ago, raising animals can be an efficient way of harnessing otherwise unusable resources such as grass.

Janis Joplin

As a matter of fact, as we discovered on the train, tomorrow never happens, man. It's all the same f***ing day, man.

Sages discovered this link of the existent to the nonexistent, having searched in the heart with wisdom.

Carolyn Porco

After what we've discovered with Cassini, if we don't get an extended mission, then there's no hope for anybody.

Wolfgang Ketterle

After earning my Ph.D., I stayed at the Max-Planck Institute as a postdoc, working on laser excitation of Rydberg states of triatomic hydrogen and helium hydride. I also succeeded in analyzing all the emission spectra of helium hydride, which I had discovered during my Ph.D.