Discovered Quotes
1755 Discovered quotes by 1341 unique authors
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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
— Charles Darwin
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All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was only able to…
— Larry David
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When I got on the set of 'Saving Private Ryan,' I discovered, to my amazement, that Steven Spielberg is a gamer.
— Vin Diesel
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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
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I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.
— Annie Dillard
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I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble…
— Katherine Dunn
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I loved the Cure and Bauhaus and the Smiths. The people in my town weren't privy to that kind of music and I got abused.…
— Fred Durst
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Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that…
— Umberto Eco
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Conspiracies do exist. Probably in this moment in New York there is an economic group making a conspiracy in order to buy three banks. But…
— Umberto Eco
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there.
— Brian Eno
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How often are the perpetrators of hate-crimes discovered to be self-loathing? Valued individuals do not strike out against strangers.
— Harvey Fierstein
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I've discovered new parts of my manhood, places I couldn't get to without loving someone else unconditionally and putting others before myself.
— Derek Fisher
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I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart,…
— Eddie Van Halen
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Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
— Sydney J. Harris
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I've discovered that sheer quantity doesn't necessarily make for a heavier sound; if anything, overdubs make guitars sound mushier.
— James Hetfield
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Facebook is not ideologically neutral. In fact, it emerges from a very particular world view which we can trace back to Hobbes. I discovered this…
— Tom Hodgkinson
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Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
— Langston Hughes
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I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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I discovered at an early age that all I've ever wanted to do is design.
— Jonathan Ive
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Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the…
— Naveen Jain
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My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.
— Boris Johnson
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One morning, in February 1986, out of nowhere, I experienced a realization. In an instant, I discovered that when I believed my stressful thoughts, I…
— Byron Katie
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The queen of aggregation is, of course, Arianna Huffington, who has discovered that if you take celebrity gossip, adorable kitten videos, posts from unpaid bloggers…
— Bill Keller
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