Discovering Quotes - Page 30

• I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there's a gas bill tied to it.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Funny, Sarcastic, Arrows

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• Television has given Pakistan a truly open national forum for the first time in its history. Ideas are debated, leaders are assessed and criticised, and a nation of 170 million people is finally discovering, together, what it thinks.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  "Pakistan is at last finding its voice. The US would be wise not to gag it" by Mohsin Hamid, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2008.

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• I love discovering new young brands and watching these fashion lines take off, like Peter Pilotto, Christopher Kane, and Clover Canyon.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Fashion, Lines, Canyons

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• Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, Goes On, Profit

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• We started by asking what’s wrong with the world, and we ended up discovering what’s right with it.

  Tom Shadyac

  Asking, World

  "Super Soul Sunday: Becoming More Self-Aware ", www.huffingtonpost.com. December 29, 2011.

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• Look at the size of the universe and look at what we're discovering about string theory. There's a wide-eyed sense of we're just getting started here.

  Rob Bell

  Size, Looks, Strings

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The essential fault of surrealism is that it invents without discovering. To make a clam play an accordion is to invent not to discover. The observation of the unconscious, so far as it can be observed, should reveal things of which we have previously been unconscious, not the familiar things of which we have been conscious plus imagination.

  Wallace Stevens

  Play, Imagination, Essentials

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.259, Vintage

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• As a child there's a horror in discovering the limitations of the ones you love. The time you find that your mother cannot keep you safe, that your tutor makes a mistake, that the wrong path must be taken because the grown-ups lack the strength to take the right one...each of those moments is the theft of your childhood, each of them a blow that kills some part of the child you were, leaving another part of the man exposed, a new creature, tougher but tempered with bitterness and disappointment.

  Mark Lawrence

  Mother, Children, Disappointment

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• Over the past two decades the pharmaceutical industry has moved very far from its original high purpose of discovering and producing useful new drugs. Now primarily a marketing machine to sell drugs of dubious benefit, this industry uses its wealth and power to co-opt every institution that might stand in its way, including the US Congress, the FDA, academic medical centers, and the medical profession itself.

  Marcia Angell

  Past, Fda, Two

  "The Truth About the Drug Companies". www.nybooks.com. July 15, 2004.

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• Getting angry can sometimes be like leaping into a wonderfully responsive sports car, gunning the motor, taking off at high speed and then discovering the brakes are out of order.

  Maggie Scarf

  Sports, Anger, Order

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• Discovering the unexpected is more important than confirming the known.

  George E. P. Box

  Important, Unexpected, Testers

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