Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to ‘gamble’ on an unknown.

Until 1985, when my lab found the protein they are made of, aquaporins hadn’t yet been identified. There had been a controversy in biology for more than 100 years about how water moved through cells.

I don’t think anything connects with an audience as deeply as a long-form serialized drama, and much as I love television, I’ve always found a good ongoing comics series to be much more immersive.

Well, fortunately we found out that the runner-up our particular year was going to get a record contract also. So it was kind of a – it was bitter sweet but it was an opportunity.

The absolute base-level thing that you do as a new screenwriter is send out query letters. Literally, you just say, ‘Hi, Mr. So-and-So,’ and you give them a one-sentence description of one of your scripts....

When I wrote ‘Mushaboom’, I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.

Before ‘American Idol’ and all this stuff, I was obsessed with music charts, and I used to go online to find out what was popular in other countries. I’d log on to the BBC website,...

I’ve found that the common humanity of people is the most relatable thing, and even if your stories are very specific about a different place, if you have a relatable core of humanity, people will...

I can’t tell you exactly how I found it. It was just a process of writing a lot of stories and reading a lot of stories that I admired and just working and working until...

I believe that we are lost here in America, but I believe we shall be found. And this belief, which mounts now to the catharsis of knowledge and conviction, is for me–and I think for...

I found my niche as a character actor, and I’ve never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.

I wouldn’t listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said – told me – but I did what they did.

I think you can do a lot, like describing people with their physical characteristics, things like that, but to me, I’ve always found it to be a much more informative question to ask somebody what...

I don’t know if I had ever found my place in the world until I fully committed to being a writer.

Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.

I think the Internet has made it easier for people to connect with things that they really like, as well as provide a more personal experience, of ‘I found this!’ and then you can pass...

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

I found popularity through self-destruction, and that can be quite addictive.

When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits...

I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts.

When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn’t take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.

But inspiration? – That’s when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? – and fortunately you haven’t. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None...

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

The man that wars with others is lost. The man that wars with himself is found.

In the 1970s, professional sports found a different breed of team owner in George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees.

When I got back I found myself being very emotional about the time spent in Rwanda in a way that I hadn’t been able to or allowed myself to be when we were there.

Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the printing press and found a vaccine for polio.

When I found out that I had won the MacArthur Fellowship, I had been a professor at Carnegie Mellon for a week. I probably shouldn’t be saying this on TV, but I stopped worrying about...

Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He meant. They found that out as they followed the impulse of the Spirit.

Everyone thinks you’ve been kidnapped,” he said. “We’ve been scouring the ship. When Coach Hedge finds out- oh, gods, you’ve been here all night?””Frank!” Annabeth’s ears were as red as strawberries. “We just came down...

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

I saw David Lynch’s ‘The Elephant Man’ when I was 15. I was completely bowled over. I found it so beautiful, strange and mesmerizing that I went back to the cinema every night for a...

I wasn’t a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I mostly wrote funny stuff instead of writing what I was supposed to be...

I was going to middle school in Berkley, and I did not fit in at all. Like a lot of kids, I found theater to be a good place for me.

I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, ‘Everything will be fine,’ but you can also be in a situation and...

The older I’ve got, the easier I’ve found it to accept myself. I think I’ve finally learnt not to beat myself up so much.

I hope that it can relate to and be a blessing to anybody, with the hope that someday they will find Jesus Christ to be the same God that I’ve found Him to be.

Remember your name. Do not lose hope —what you seek will be found.

But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange.

Generally, I’ve found that a heckler in an improv audience is just enjoying the show so much that they want to be in it.

There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.

One of the principles of nonviolence is that you leave your opponents whole and better off than you found them.

I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

Each of my novels has come from a different place, and the processes are not always entirely conscious. I have lived off and on in America for a number of years and so have accumulated...

We were at Pye Studios for half an hour so we set the gear up and we did two tracks. A month later we found out it was selling thirty thousand copies a day.

Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle – ancient or modern – must be tested vigorously. If they are found wanting, we need not bother with them. But if they are...

What is sad to me is not what Bill Nye thinks about me. What I found really unfortunate is that after presenting my stand on God’s Word, there were a number of Christians who were...

I thought I could play the hellraiser and then put ‘Johnny Vegas’ back in his box. I found popularity through self-destruction. The more you damage yourself, the more people are drawn to you, and that...

Be lost. Give up. Give In. in the end It would be better to surrender before you begin. be lost. Be lost And then you will not care if you are ever found.