Found Quotes

• When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Lost
  • Alone
  • Mystery

• If anything, I've found nonfiction a little easier. You don't have to make anything up. Of course, that's the inherent difficulty as well: when you hit an information black hole, you don't get to make it up. That hasn't come up too often with this project though. I'm lucky to have tons of primary source material , reams of letters and diaries and memoirs.

  

  Debra Dean
  • Information
  • Easier
  • Holes

• Based on the number that they found, The New York Times reported that Hillary Clinton had basically clinched the primary 'cause you added the superdelegates to the number of delegates you'd already gotten. But this was on the eve of the California and New Jersey primary.

  

  Terry Gross
  • California
  • Causes
  • Numbers

• At Achilles tomb, O fortunate youth, to have found Homer as the herald of your glory!

  

  Alexander the Great
  • Found
  • Glory
  • Tomb

• There is great exhilaration in breaking one of these things. ... Ramanujan gives no hints, no proof of his formulas, so everything you do you feel is your own.[About verifying Ramanujan's equations in a newly found manuscript.]

  

  George Andrews
  • Science
  • Equations
  • Exhilaration

• I gave what other women gave That stepped out of their clothes But when this soul, its body off Naked to naked goes, He it has found shall find therein What none other knows.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Clothes

• Words [are] more beautiful than a found fall leaf.

  

  William H. Gass
  • Beautiful
  • Fall
  • Leafs

• I found the right man, got married, and just had to keep not reinventing myself, just deciding that it doesn't matter what you are if you are a good person.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
  • Good
  • Person
  • Married

• I've found in my own life that if my writing isn't going well, not much else will. It is the one constant, the key to everything else.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Key

• I do not think there is anything deserving the name of society to be found out of London.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Thinking
  • Found
  • Deserving

• The fiber-collagen meshwork looked virtually identical to these so-called 'proto-feathers' found in the Chinese dinosaurs.

  

  Alan Feduccia
  • Found
  • Feathers
  • Dinosaurs

• I found out later on that was not true, that life drawing tells you a great deal about rhythm, about the structure of a human being or any animate object, and this could be directly translated into thinking about proportion and accent, rhythm in a pot form.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Drawing
  • Form
  • Deals

• Our perceiving self is nowhere to be found in the world-picture, because it itself is the world-picture.

  

  Erwin Schrodinger
  • Picture
  • Found
  • Perceiving

• We disbanded our intelligence and then found we needed it. Let's not go through that again. Redirect it, reduce the amount of money spent, but let's not destroy it. Because you don't know 10 years out what you're going to face.

  

  William Colby
  • Faces
  • Needed
  • Disbanded

• I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined.

  

  Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
  • Found

• I don't know what specific frontiers Germany could adopt for her purposes, but I think that those willing "to lend" a frontier to her can be found.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Think
  • Purposes
  • Don't Know

• Surprisingly I've never really stolen anything. One time when I was really young, I was walking down the street, found a GI Joe in the mud, and took it home and I was like, "I got a GI Joe!" And then my great grandmother was like, "You stole that." I said, "What are you talking about?" and she said, "That's not yours." I'm like, "But I found it!" She's like, "But it's not yours, and therefore you stole it." So I just went and put it right back in the mud where I found it.

  

  Baron Vaughn
  • Home
  • Walking
  • Said

• Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Found
  • Missionaries
  • Nuisances

• It happened again this afternoon. Just the way it did that other night. We were talking - talking about how to protect her, actually - and then, suddenly, I looked at her and it was as if I'd found an entire universe in her eyes.

  

  Cate Tiernan
  • Eyes
  • Universe
  • Talking

• Would it upset men if they found out we weren't different? Are we? Aren't we? Damned if I know.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Men
  • Different
  • Upset

• The one true friend I thought I'd found, tonight the bottle let me down.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • Friend
  • Tonight
  • Bottles

• To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Love
  • Pearl

• Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when they go badly would have found the point.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Secret
  • Found
  • Rejoicing

• For certain, you have to be lost to find a place that can’t be found.

  

  Geoffrey Rush
  • Lost
  • Place
  • Found

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