What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a new world but his having gone to search for it on… — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune Copy Share Image
I first saw Arnold Palmer when I was just a kid and he came to Columbus to play in a tournament. I… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
“Advice to explorers everywhere: if you would like to recieve due credit for your discoveries, keep a detailed account of your journeys… — Cuthbert Soup Copy Share Image
I don't like that word 'discovery.' ... Sinatra was the first one to call Ray Charles a genius, he spoke of 'the… — Gayl Jones Copy Share Image
America should do a reverse Columbus. The world no longer needs to discover America; but America urgently needs to discover the world's… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Neither realism nor romance furnishes a more striking and picturesque figure than that of Christopher Columbus. The mystery about his origin heightens… — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
We can no better imagine what will be happening on the moon 500 years from now than Columbus could imagine contemporary Manhattan.… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Do you think we care about the feelings of Native Americans when we celebrate Columbus Day? That's the day that the white… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
In 1492 Columbus knew less about the far Atlantic than we do about the heavens, yet he chose not to sail with… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Shaquille and I kind of joke we were the Christopher Columbus of social media. We're kind of out on a boat by… — Amy Jo Martin Copy Share Image
I love it. It's all good to me. Whether I'm performing in New York, L.A., Columbus or Des Moines, I give 110… — Bret Michaels Copy Share Image
Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah. Don't ever aim… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone.… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The occupation of America (and Columbus's arrival quite clearly was an occupation, no one can deny that) meant that the entire history… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We say that Columbus discovered America and Newton discovered gravity, as though America and gravity weren't there until Columbus and Newton got… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
Well, Columbus wasn't looking for America, my man, but that turned out to be pretty okay for everyone. — Vince Vaughn Copy Share Image
Every movie I work with the costume designer to see what feels like the character, not what Columbus would wear but what… — Columbus Short Copy Share Image
“Columbus's real achievement was managing to cross the ocean successfully in both directions. Though an accomplished enough mariner, he was not terribly… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
