Discovered

Famous quotes containing the word discovered:

“In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention.”
—Jay Dratler, U.S. screenwriter, Samuel Hoffenstein (1889–1947)

“Have we even so much as discovered and settled the shores? Let a man travel on foot along the coast ... and tell me if it looks like a discovered and settled country, and not rather, for the most part, like a desolate island, and No-Man’s Land.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“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)