Discovered

Famous quotes containing the word discovered:

    One of the things that I discovered in lecturing was that gradually one ceased to hear what one said one heard what the audience hears one say.
    Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

    [Tolstoy] discovered—and certainly never realized his discovery—he discovered a method of picturing life which most pleasingly and exactly corresponds to our idea of time. He is the only writer I know of whose watch keeps time with numberless watches of his readers.
    Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    I have found it; I have discovered the cause of all the misfortunes which befell him. A public school, Joseph, was the cause of all the calamaties which he afterwards suffered. Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
    Henry Fielding (1707–1754)