All Quotes

I discovered that I act because I really love to act. I don't act because maybe it will get me a magazine cover or that I can get on a talk show.
‐‐ John Corbett

I discovered that I wanted to be an actor back when I did my first play in junior high. I've been doing theater in junior high and high school, and I just kept feeding the fire, kept wanting to pursue acting full-on.
‐‐ Michael Steger

I discovered that I was part of a Parkinson's community with similar experiences and similar questions that I'd been dealing with alone.
‐‐ Michael J. Fox

I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.
‐‐ David Lynch

I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place.
‐‐ Donald Davis

I discovered that it was a lonely world being a solo artist. Then I started working with another solo artist, Rod Stewart, and he used to tell me how lonely he was!
‐‐ Andy Taylor

I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.
‐‐ Lupita Nyong'o

I discovered that men were just like everyone else, really. They liked you if you were good-tempered and easy to talk to. And being a big girl meant other females trusted you more and confided in you.
‐‐ Maeve Binchy

I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.
‐‐ Kazuo Ishiguro

I discovered that my insecurities and my flaws were things that I actually need to embrace, and I let them become my superpowers.
‐‐ Skylar Grey

I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication, that helped focus it further.
‐‐ Sarah Vowell

I discovered that silent film is almost an advantage. You just have to think of the feeling for it to show. No lines pollute it. It doesn't take much - a gaze, an eyelash flutter - for the emotion to be vivid.
‐‐ Jean Dujardin

I discovered that Thailand was one of those countries, like Sri Lanka and India, where memory of past lives used to be commonplace. Go back a few generations, and you find people talking about earlier lives with total certainty.
‐‐ John Burdett

I discovered that the best thing for me was to be very busy all the time. I can get a lot done, and I can do those tasks well.
‐‐ Terry J. Lundgren

I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation.
‐‐ Jane Smiley

I discovered that the most interesting music of all was made by simply lining the loops in unison, and letting them slowly shift out of phase with other.
‐‐ Steve Reich

I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North similar to a Southerner. They're two different worlds.
‐‐ Esa-Pekka Salonen

I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.
‐‐ Karl Jaspers

I discovered that the world frightens you with your shortcomings, but if you do not worry about it, you are liberated.
‐‐ Anupam Kher

I discovered that there is Indian blood in my ancestry on my father's side - a fact that had not been talked about in my family. No wonder I've often been cast in exotic roles - Indian princesses, Russian revolutionaries, Algerians, Gypsies and Greeks.
‐‐ Diana Quick

I discovered that wearing the veil is not suitable for a woman who wants to work in activism and the public domain. People need to see you, to associate and relate to you. It is not stated in my religion to wear the veil; it is a traditional practice, so I took it off.
‐‐ Tawakkol Karman

I discovered that writing was very nice indeed when I was very young, and I never changed. I don't think my style has changed very much at all - though I hope what I say is a bit more interesting. It's about getting to know a character and loving them, I think.
‐‐ Jane Gardam

I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie.
‐‐ Jerry Only

I discovered the fun of genre is... you get to explore your fears, and you get to use the metaphor of the genre - whether it's a giant monster or a... 12-year-old vampire. Whatever it is, you can sink something underneath the surface and make a personal film under the guise of great fun romp.
‐‐ Matt Reeves

I discovered the National Coalition Against Censorship when I felt totally alone in my fight to protect intellectual freedom, and that group changed my life. I was no longer alone.
‐‐ Judy Blume

I discovered the same thing Gram Parsons did, that soul music and country music are practically identical. Based off of the same chord structures, and the songs are of heartache and loss. The main connection is they both came up in church.
‐‐ Justin Townes Earle

I discovered 'The Shield' back around 2010, when the Archie superheroes were licensed to DC Comics. From there, I went back into the archives and discovered this whole universe of characters, and I was hooked.
‐‐ Adam Christopher

I discovered the slip dress, which I think is one of the more French things because when you take off your clothes, even when to go into a shop to buy something, or you're going to Riccardo Tisci to try on a suit, it's like having protection.
‐‐ Carine Roitfeld

I discovered the theater when I was in the first grade.
‐‐ R. J. Cutler

I discovered the wife's got asthma. Thank God - I thought she was hissing at me.
‐‐ Les Dawson

I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.
‐‐ Cecil Taylor

I discovered what is and isn't important to me. I decided I really wanted to enjoy life with someone fun, who can make the best out of any situation - whatever it is we're doing.
‐‐ Jennifer Morrison

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.
‐‐ Zach Johnson

I discovered who I was when I discovered God. You are just like your father God.
‐‐ Myles Munroe

I discovered writing children's books was a way to keep living in my imagination like a child. So I wrote a number of books before I started 'Magic Tree House.' Then, once I got that, I never looked back because I could be somewhere different in every single book.
‐‐ Mary Pope Osborne

I discovered you can get closer to a character's thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film.
‐‐ Morris Gleitzman

I dish the dirt out, and I can take it. But why should my mother and children have to take it? In 20 years, I have taken any number of stories, most of which are not true, without a murmur of complaint. But some stories you have to draw the line and say No.
‐‐ Jeremy Clarkson

I dished out and suffered my fair share of bloody noses.
‐‐ Peter Storey

I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.
‐‐ J. R. R. Tolkien

I dislike arrogant men and diva behavior in either gender.
‐‐ Robin Wright

I dislike conflict, so I do try and steer clear of arguments. Apart from with my coach. Who I literally have an argument with every day.
‐‐ Jessica Ennis-Hill

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.
‐‐ Anne Stevenson

I dislike math, yet I respect and appreciate the fact that math is the language of the universe.
‐‐ Lucas Grabeel

I dislike pastiche; it attracts attention to the language only.
‐‐ Hilary Mantel

I dislike the gym, but I'll chase a tennis ball all day.
‐‐ Matt Kuchar

I dislike the word 'self-help.' Self-awareness, yes, but not self-help.
‐‐ Deepak Chopra

I dislike the word 'victim.' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I had idly abandoned you by the side of the railway track like an unwanted pair of old shoes.
‐‐ Nina Bawden

I dislike turtlenecks at the best of times, as they are always unflattering to the imperfect male physique, but when worn in combination with a v-neck sweater, they say 'Grandpa' louder than any other item of clothing.
‐‐ Russell Smith