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I think that life has a secret, and children they hold that secret. Maybe it's not given to everybody to discover this thing.
Celine Dion

Life, Children, Secret

I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.
Bai Ling

Sad, Wise, Crazy

When you're out of your own cultural context you have conversations with yourself that you just don't have at any other point in your life. When you're in a hotel room on the border between India and Nepal you can really discover things about yourself.
David Mitchell

Life, Yourself, Between

When you've been going on about something for a while, it is always satisfying to discover that other people agree with you.
Bill Nighy

While, Agree, Satisfying

Our great problem, is that children now know whatever they want to know - at the press of a button they can discover all horrors of the adult world. They know very early on that the world is sometimes a very dark, difficult and complex place, and the literature they read must reflect that. Otherwise we're just entertaining them to pass the time.
Michael Morpurgo

Time, Great, Children

As an actor, you can certainly, at any moment and at any time, discover 400 people who think you're stupid, fat and ugly.
Amy Poehler

Time, Stupid, Moment

Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.
Rosalia de Castro

Happiness, Dream, Earth

You instinctively discover how to entertain an audience.
Anna Held

Audience, Entertain

I read the papers every day just to discover if one mentions Anna Held.
Anna Held

Read, Papers, Anna

What is a Web year now, about three months? And when people can browse around, discover new things, and download them fast, when we all have agents - then Web years could slip by before human beings can notice.
Tim Berners-Lee

Human, Before, Around

I have no problem being 53. Why would I want to be 35 again? I want to discover who I am in my 50s. And if I tried too hard to look younger, it would seem that I was uncomfortable with who I am, wouldn't it?
Ellen Barkin

Hard, Why, Problem

It's an interesting thing when you discover something about yourself. To go: 'Wow, I'm not the person I thought I was. I'm in the middle of something and I can't actually deal with it.'
Keira Knightley

Yourself, Person, Thought

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.
Anita Brookner

Writing, Learn, Start

When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.
Walter Isaacson

Amazing, Human, Write

When you start out with goals - mine were to play polytonally and polyrhythmically - you never exhaust that. I started doing that in the 1940s. It's still a challenge to discover what can be done with just those two elements.
Dave Brubeck

Done, Two, Play

All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.
F. Murray Abraham

Work, Else, Stuff

Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.
John Charles Polanyi

Good, Used, Dreamers

Building the right product requires systematically and relentlessly testing that vision to discover which elements of it are brilliant, and which are crazy.
Eric Ries

Crazy, Vision, Building

It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.
Camille Pissarro

Character, True, Everything

Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?
Marilyn French

Simple, Nothing, Trying

Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didn't want to see it for myself but I certainly didn't want millions of people to see it.
Andre Agassi

Learning, Times, Tennis

Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
Raoul Vaneigem

Book, Order, Reader

You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new.
Carly Simon

Through, Old, Off

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Fool, Succeed, Necessary

I'm still trying to discover my position on my own artwork and hopefully at this exhibition someone will come and tell me. I'm open to listening to criticism.
Graham Coxon

Someone, Trying, Tell

A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse. A man in any other line of work would nail a guy who laid that kind of abuse on him. I know I would.
Kent McCord

Work, Him, Hell

A few years ago, kids from poor areas in France were asked to draw items of food. For a chicken, they drew a drumstick. For a fish, they drew a fish stick. Those are extremes, but there is a lot that needs to be done to help children discover good food.
Joel Robuchon

Good, Food, Children

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.
Jean Giraudoux

Woman, Able, Fifty

I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superficial prototype of what they think a Christian should be, but to discover who they really are.
Larry Norman

Christian, Try, Encourage

Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won't know what it is until I succeed in doing it.
Alberto Giacometti

Life, Whole, Child

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