#discover

I was so busy with my studies that I didn't have a musical idol as a teenager. Later, around my 20s, I suddenly discovered the Beatles and the Rolling Stones but I guess my musical idol has always been Strauss. ↗

— Andre Rieu

#around #beatles #been #busy #discovered

I decided to write category romance as I'd recently discovered them, and enjoyed them. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#decided #discovered #enjoyed #i #recently

I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. So I think that was probably my most valued characteristic as a teenager. ↗

— Julia Roberts

#characteristic #discover #enough #i #i think

Well, I think one of the reasons Chicago became so popular as a filmmaker location is because New York had been used so many times that Chicago, I think, was rediscovered maybe in the late '60s, early '70s for a long time as a new location. ↗

— Richard Roeper

#because #been #chicago #early #filmmaker

Believing himself to be unseen by other bathers, he gave himself up to being alone with his body. He wriggled his toes, breathed hard through his nose, twisted his brown moustache where some drops of water still clung, and looked himself critically all over. The scrutiny seemed to satisfy him, as well as it might. I, whose only acquaintance was with bodies and minds developing, was suddenly confronted by maturity in its most undeniable form; and I wondered, what must it feel like to be him, master of those limbs which have passed beyond the need of gym and playing field, and exist for their own beauty and strength? What can they do, I thought, to be conscious of themselves? ↗

— L.P. Hartley

#discovery #beauty

These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth. ↗

— William John Wills

#freely #given #pervert #powers #rare

Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost. ↗

— Julien Benda

#arts #been #discovered #doubtful #lost

The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving. ↗

— Polly Berrien Berends

#discovery #gain #having #how #love

I have discovered that there are two types of command interfaces in the world of computing: good interfaces and user interfaces. ↗

— Daniel J. Bernstein

#computing #discovered #good #i #interfaces

As I discovered, even the governor of a major state who holds pro-life views can be denied a hearing at his party's convention without the national media protesting it. ↗

— Robert Casey

#denied #discovered #even #governor #hearing