Findings Quotes - Page 25

• The world is really run by the Web. There's so much information out there that you can click and keep going down the rabbit hole finding stuff.

  Big Boi

  Running, Rabbits, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You'd have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I'd probably want to die in San Sebastian.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Hard Times, Choices, Barcelona

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• My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punches because everything was new to me.

  Chris Brown

  Voice, Rolling, Albums

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• This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.

  James L. Buckley

  Ambition, Way, Principles

  James L. Buckley (2010). “Freedom at Risk: Reflections on Politics, Liberty, and the State”, p.245, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You know what 'FAILING' stands for? It stands for 'Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth.'

  Gary Busey

  Growth, Important, Lessons

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

  Lord Byron

  Literature, Merit, Mines

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• What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

  Italo Calvino

  Inspiration, Finding The One, Genius

  Italo Calvino (2017). “The Uses of Literature”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The first few weeks of joining Weight Watchers, you're just finding your feet.

  Jimmy Carr

  Weight Watchers, Feet, Joining

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• Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

  Quentin Crisp

  Character, Power, Hands

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• I believe that the biggest problem that humanity faces is an ego sensitivity to finding out whether one is right or wrong and identifying what one's strengths and weaknesses are.

  Ray Dalio

  Believe, Ego, Humanity

  "Mastering the Machine". Interview with John Cassidy, www.newyorker.com. July 25, 2011.

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• I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.

  Vin Diesel

  Teacher, New York, Father

  "Vin Diesel Says ‘Fast Five’ is Part of a New ‘Furious’ Trilogy". Interview with Mike Eisenberg, screenrant.com. January 25, 2011.

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• Some makeup companies have really good recycling policies, and it's worth finding out whether your favourites are among them. With MAC, for instance, you can take any of your old makeup containers into its shops, and the sweetest deal is that, once you've racked up six containers, you get a free lipstick or lip gloss.

  Beth Ditto

  Makeup, Six, Lips

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2007.

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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 happened because of an imaginary tale.

  Umberto Eco

  America, Australia, Captains

  "Signs of the times". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2002.

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• The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Vaccines, Challenges, Hiv

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• If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do not determine an exact path in your life.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Path, Environment, Genes

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• A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Book, Reading, Ignorance

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• Since I met Starsmith, my producer, I really feel like I'm making music because we write it together and produce it together. I've got a proper involvement in the end product as opposed to just writing a song and finding someone else to produce it.

  Ellie Goulding

  Song, Writing, Together

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My emotional investment is in finding truth. If string theory is wrong, I'd like to have known that yesterday. But if we can show it today or tomorrow, fantastic.

  Brian Greene

  Emotional, Yesterday, Today

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• Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.

  Lady Gregory

  Soul, Suffering, Debt

  Lady Gregory (1970). “The collected plays”

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• Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.

  Bear Grylls

  Home, Joy, Christianity

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• Well, if you're looking for me to lead a normal representative life, well good luck finding a foreign secretary who'd be like that - totally dependant on the political system and has never earned any money. Then you'll get the politicians you deserve.

  William Hague

  Good Luck, Political, Normal

  "Decca Aitkenhead meets William Hague". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2009.

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• I am proud to be a role model for my viewers. I am finding out that helping victims is as or more rewarding the all the awards I win.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Winning, Awards, Role Models

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• I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time - the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.

  Kamala Harris

  Mother, Home, Opportunity

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• Kindness is really important to me in finding my own prince - so are patience and a sense of humor. Without those qualities he's no Prince Charming!

  Anne Hathaway

  Kindness, Important, Quality

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another.

  John Hawkes

  Thinking, Persons, One Thing

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