When you don’t have anything to lose, you discover something wonderful: you’re free to take great risks without fear or reservation.
‘Jaws’ freed me to discover that a successful movie didn’t make a damn bit of difference to my life.
The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic – nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.
You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you’re like an immigrant to your own world. You don’t have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.
More than anything, acting helped me discover who I’m not. I’ve learned that I’m a girly girl, but not a prissy girl.
I’d known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn’t be possible, since it’s illegal for them to speak with foreigners. Still, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.
Period costume films are fun to discover, but they’re not relatable. It’s more, ‘Wow, that’s cool – did it really look like that back then?’ Whereas with a comedy, you’re like, ‘Yeah, that’s me, that’s my friends.’ No matter what, I want people to relate.
It’s great to go on your own and discover new things just for yourself, to meet new people and all that. If you’re all on your own, then there is nobody there to guide you and you have to make all the decisions for yourself. It’s quite liberating in a way.
I don’t like to diet, so I work out with a trainer a few times a week. We do kickboxing and strengthening – it’s hard! I also do yoga and love to walk everywhere. I live in Brooklyn, so walking is the best way to discover the city and the neighbourhoods.
Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It’s really counterintuitive.
No man can discover his own talents.
Only out of great vulnerability do you discover what strength you have. Having a daughter who I love with all my being has helped me mine the source of that strength to previously unknown depths.
If you think you’re in shape, try boxing. You’ll discover that you are not. It’s the most physically challenging thing I’ve ever attempted, but I love it and I want to keep up some of the training.
I guess Malayali women like bubbly, happy-go-lucky guys, and I am all of that. I’m yet to discover how I’m such a hit there. The fans there are difficult to win over.
When they discover I have a green card there may be some problems.
Your understanding of a place changes the longer you stay; you discover more, and your own life gets woven into the fabric of the community.
When I was thirteen years old, I didn’t exactly discover epic fantasy on my own. I acquired it as a social defence mechanism.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
To realize that your mother’s love life has been far more interesting than one’s own is a weird thing to discover.
In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.
When girls can be honest with each other, they can make mistakes on their own terms and discover through experience – and not through knee-jerk adult intervention – what a healthy friendship should look like.
I think, certainly, directing is a visual medium, but it’s also about communication, and a lot of times, great directors are lacking in communication skills, which is rather shocking to discover that.
I don’t like going where I’ve already been. Life is a myriad of territories to discover. I don’t want to waste time with what I already know.
Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.
You remember all those phrases about how ‘these people’ – Asians – don’t value human life like we do. Well if you spend any time around them, you discover that they love their children just as much as we love ours. That is certainly true of the Vietnamese.
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying – half unconsciously, perhaps – to discover and to express the fundamental quality of his genius.
Changing laws and changing the political dialogue, while necessary, is insufficient to ensure that bullying stops; to ensure that every young person is supported by their parents and their teachers as they question who they are and they discover who they are regardless of the sexuality.
Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom. Freedom opens the windows of the soul so that man can discover his most profound beliefs and commune with God. Freedom and religion endure together, or perish alone.
Science, engineering, and technology discovers and invents new ways of doing things – but it doesn’t dictate how we should do them.
I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.
Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it.
Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life.
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.
The liberation children experience when they discover the Internet is quickly counteracted by the lure of e-commerce web sites, which are customized to each individual user’s psychological profile in order to maximize their effectiveness.
It would be difficult to discover the truth about the universe if we refused to consider anything that might be true.
In my own case, I’m an artist, and I’m really interested in expanding the vocabulary of human action, and basically empowering people through interactivity. I want people to discover themselves as actors, as creative actors, by having interactive experiences.
When we discover New Earth – a planet we could call home – the question of the ‘plurality of worlds’ will come front and center, reminding us yet again that we are not the center of the universe.
Everyone wants to pretend like they sprang out of the ground with an Animal Collective record in their hands and a David Bowie haircut, and that’s just not the case. You discover these things gradually.
When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.
To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.
I began my career as an economics professor but became frustrated because the economic theories I taught in the classroom didn’t have any meaning in the lives of poor people I saw all around me. I decided to turn away from the textbooks and discover the real-life economics of a poor person’s existence.
The scriptures make the danger of delay clear. It is that we may discover that we have run out of time. The God who gives us each day as a treasure will require an accounting.
