All Quotes

I disagreed with Carnegie's ideas on how to best to distribute his wealth. I spent mine! Spending creates more wealth for everybody.
‐‐ Charles M. Schwab

I disappear from the public eye and get rediscovered quite often.
‐‐ Burgess Meredith

I disapprove of lots of decisions made by George Bush: the war, the meddling in the affairs of other countries, the conversations with dictators; it was a dark time.
‐‐ Tommy Hilfiger

I discourage a cult of personality.
‐‐ Newt Gingrich

I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field testing.
‐‐ Tim Ferriss

I discover real-time news far more often on Facebook than on Google News or a regular Google search.
‐‐ Marvin Ammori

I discover that my friends think only of my apparel, and those upon whom I have conferred acts of kindness prefer to remind me of my errors.
‐‐ John James Audubon

I discover what I mean as I write. That can be both terrifically exciting and very dangerous, because when you look at your words later, you wonder, 'Did I really mean that, or am I just making verbal patterns?'
‐‐ Peter Shaffer

I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a head, with fewer dots, but you won't be able to give much information about who it is.
‐‐ Chuck Close

I discovered after going to music festivals that I am a rock fan. I love the guitars, the phrasing, and the abandon of rock fans.
‐‐ Beyonce Knowles

I discovered and fell in love with skiing long before I started to climb. Skiing was really my first calling. As a kid, I grew up skiing in jeans in Minnesota.
‐‐ Jimmy Chin

I discovered at an early age that all I've ever wanted to do is design.
‐‐ Jonathan Ive

I discovered at the age of five that I could sing, and I realised people liked it. The sound that came out made people happy, so I kept doing it.
‐‐ Cynthia Erivo

I discovered Boulder not through cycling but skiing. I was recruited by the university for the ski team, and in my opinion, it's the best place for skiing - you have this super-light, fluffy champagne snow.
‐‐ Tyler Hamilton

I discovered by working with actual glass models that the important thing is the play of reflections and not the effect of light and shadow, as in ordinary buildings.
‐‐ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

I discovered Christopher Isherwood in college. His writing style is so direct, warm, and inclusive.
‐‐ Claire Danes

I discovered cosplay because I was going to an anime convention and did some research, and found out people dressed up as characters. I made a very badly put-together costume because I felt this desire to dress up.
‐‐ Yaya Han

I discovered Deborah Ellis's books in the school library after my head teacher encouraged me to go beyond the school curriculum and look for books I might enjoy.
‐‐ Malala Yousafzai

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

I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer.
‐‐ Ben Hecht

I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric.
‐‐ Cate Blanchett

I discovered early that as an artist there was absolutely nothing wrong with being surrounded by people who were not dedicated to your field.
‐‐ Junot Diaz

I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.
‐‐ E. L. Doctorow

I discovered freedom for the first time in England.
‐‐ Emperor Hirohito

I discovered how science is truly a universal language, one that forges new connections among individuals and opens the mind to ideas that go far beyond the classroom.
‐‐ Ahmed Zewail

I discovered I was a monotheist... That rules out polytheism. I have also had a problem with authority, which rules out any religion with a priesthood or leader who claims to be God's representative on Earth.
‐‐ G. Willow Wilson

I discovered I was passionate about the creative process, the product development, creating a concept around a fragrance or lipstick.
‐‐ Aerin Lauder

I discovered in college that country music could be fun adding some swing to it.
‐‐ George Strait

I discovered in writing the biography of Bill Clinton that it is actually easier to write a biography of someone who is dead. Although you can't interview them, you have a fuller perspective on their whole life after they're gone and people are more willing to talk about them.
‐‐ David Maraniss

I discovered it was easier to carry around a pen than a piano.
‐‐ Carolyn Kizer

I discovered John Fante when I was 17 years old - strangely, not through Charles Bukowski, but through William Saroyan, who was his drinking buddy.
‐‐ Jonathan Evison

I discovered Los Angeles in the late '90s. The city was not at its best at the time, but I fell for it right away. There is something almost haunted about it, a vibrant mythology I find rather inspiring.
‐‐ Hedi Slimane

I discovered martial arts, first judo and then karate, and I became quite good at it, because I had something to prove. And more than anything, I needed to feel safe.
‐‐ Dolph Lundgren

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.
‐‐ Ray Bradbury

I discovered Musha Cay and the islands around it in the Exumas.
‐‐ David Copperfield

I discovered my wife in bed with another man, and I was crushed. So I said, 'Get off me, you two!'
‐‐ Emo Philips

I discovered myself!
‐‐ Lauren Hutton

I discovered Orson Welles in college; my freshman English professor screened 'Citizen Kane' for us, and I wound up writing a 20-page term paper on it.
‐‐ Claire Danes

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

I discovered reading through libraries. I grew up in a house that wasn't brimming with books.
‐‐ Mark Billingham

I discovered 'Rite of Spring' when I was 21. As a matter of fact, not with orchestra first, because it was still a work which was not often performed. Don't forget that I was 19 in 1944, still the Occupation time. So it was performed slightly after the end of the war, in 1945.
‐‐ Pierre Boulez

I discovered shooting and filmmaking around the time all of the software became affordable to anyone with a PC.
‐‐ Seth Gordon

I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy - the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret!
‐‐ David Copperfield

I discovered surfing, which I absolutely fell in love with. That feels good and kind of keeps your body aligned, so does the salt water.
‐‐ Anthony Kiedis

I discovered television is a great way to deal with the chaos of new motherhood. I would put the babies to bed and get lost in a trashy reality show.
‐‐ Tamra Davis

I discovered that bone china was a British invention, which had been developed by a pottery sited next to a slaughterhouse - 'bone' china, of course, contains bones, though we are inclined to forget that.
‐‐ Christien Meindertsma

I discovered that close to half the planet is 'pristine.' We live in towns such as London, Paris or Sao Paulo and have the impression that all the pristine areas are gone, but they are not.
‐‐ Sebastiao Salgado

I discovered that funny animal pictures - memes - would get a lot of likes and shares.
‐‐ George Takei

I discovered that I, a writer of what is known as creative nonfiction, could do the research and bridge the gap in my books and lectures through true storytelling. This is not 'dumbing down' or writing for eighth graders. It is writing for readers across cultures, age barriers, social and political landscapes.
‐‐ Lee Gutkind