“If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were.” IfsWaySchoolJobsLawUsedAsksFindingsFirmInterviewsJob InterviewGlasgowLaw Firms Author:Denise Mina
“Thimerosal is commonly used as an antiseptic/preservative in vaccines in the range of 1:10,000 to 1:20,000. Welsh's and Hunter's 1940 findings, applied to current thimerosal use in vaccines, lead to the conclusion that thimerosal completely inhibits phagocytosis in blood, one of the body's most vital immune defenses!” UseBodyUsedBloodFindingsCurrentsDefenseConclusionRangeHuntersImmuneVaccinesWelsh Author:Jamie Murphy
“Going back to Hemingway's work after several years is like going back to a brook where you had often fished and finding the woods as deep and cool as they used to be.” YearsUsedFindingsWoodsUsed To BeBrooks Author:Malcolm Cowley
“In New England they once thought blackbirds useless, and mischievous to the corn. They made efforts to destroy them. The consequence was, the blackbirds were diminished; but a kind of worm, which devoured their grass, and which the blackbirds used to feed on, increased prodigiously; then, finding their loss in grass much greater than their saving in corn, they wished again for their blackbirds.” KindMadeUsedLossEffortGreaterFindingsConsequenceEnglandSavingUselessGrassEcologyWormsCornNew EnglandMischievousBlackbirds Book:A Benjamin Franklin Reader Source: A Benjamin Franklin Reader
“Religious people are now finding that the First Amendment is being used to herd them into a social ghetto, separated and walled off from public participation.” PeopleFirstsChristianUsedSocialReligiousFindingsAmendmentsParticipationFirst AmendmentHerdsGhetto Author:Pat Swindall
“I started finding humor in everything. I used to watch a lot of TV, and I finally figured I didn't need to watch TV to find funny stuff. I just watch the commercials. I mean, the commercials just blew my mind.” NeedsMindMeanUsedStuffWatchesTvsFindingsFunny Stuff Author:Andy Andrews
“P. G. Wodehouse... used, when in town, to solve the problem of the long walk to the post-office by the simple expedient of tossing his letters out of his window: his belief that the average human, finding a stamped and addressed envelope on the pavement, would naturally pop it into the nearest pillar-box was never once, in decades, shown to be unfounded.” HumansLongProblemUsedBeliefSimpleWalksOfficeFindingsWindowLettersTownsAverageBoxesPopsSolveDecadesPostsPillarsEnvelopesPavementPost OfficeLong Walks Author:Stephen Fry
“I believe the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction presents the greatest threat that the world has ever known. We are finding more and more countries who are acquiring technology - not only missile technology - and are developing chemical weapons and biological weapons capabilities to be used in theater and also on a long range basis. So I think that is perhaps the greatest threat that any of us will face in the coming years.” ThinkingWorldYearsBelieveLongCountryFacesUsedI BelieveKnownTechnologyFindingsWeaponsMassDestructionBasesTheaterThreatDevelopingRangeChemicalsCapabilityMissilesWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionProliferationChemical WeaponsBiological Weapons Author:William Cohen
“I was always kind of finding humor to be an access point to the conversation, to a pain relief, if you will. My mother was in a wheelchair since I was very young, so she was in pain and we used humor.” IfsKindPainYoungUsedMotherConversationFindingsAccessReliefWheelchairsPain Relief Author:Tom Shadyac
“If I am used to looking at a paper chart and finding information that I know approximately where I'm going to look at that and now I have to go to a computer and find it a different way.” IfsKnowsWayLooksDifferentUsedInformationPaperFindingsComputerDifferent Ways Author:William Davis
“I've never used the word jamming. It's a matter of finding a great song and learning the chords, then slightly altering the vocal melody, and matching a classic chord progression with another chord progression.” MatterUsedSongFindingsClassicMelodyChordsVocalProgressionMatching Author:M. Ward
“I used to be concerned about style, worried about my work looking like a bad copy of someone who's better than me. So my embracing of the research and finding a way to replicate something consciously rather than replicate something unconsciously seemed like a way to go to distinguish what I do.” WayUsedStyleFindingsResearchConcernedUsed To BeWorriedCopiesReplicate Author:Robert Sikoryak
“One particular spark was when I went back to my favorite spot in the mountains where my father always used to take us before my graduate studies in Canada and finding that the stream I had gone swimming in wasnÂ’t there. The forest had been converted into an apple orchard with World Bank financing. The entire place, literally, had changed.” WorldUsedFatherGoneStudyChangedParticularMountainFindingsMy FavoriteForestsSpotsStreamsApplesCanadaSparksSwimmingGraduatesFinancingOrchardWorld Bank Author:Vandana Shiva
“What's interesting is that the way we go about finding our marriage partners today is quite different from the way it used to be in this culture.” WayDifferentTodayUsedCultureInterestingFindingsPartnersUsed To Be Author:Sheena Iyengar
“Gabriel Batistuta. He was a spectacular No 9 - great at finding space, shooting from outside the box, good in the air. He was always a reference for me and I used to watch the way he played.” WayUsedSpaceWatchesAirFindingsBoxesShootingSpectacularGabrielOutside The Box Author:Luis Suarez
“Being an older person now, I'm finding that people are calling me to play various things. Variations on the theme of mother, caretaker, and in some cases, doctors, heads of organizations and things like that. For some people, I'm finally old enough to play those roles. We see men playing them when they're a little bit younger, and also in roles that call for some form of conflict and violence, either generating it or trying to curtail it. Women don't seem to be a big part of those common and often used movie themes.” PeopleMenTryingLittlesPersonsEnoughPlayBigsSeemsFormUsedMotherBitsCommonRolesCasesViolenceCallingConflictFindingsLittle BitDoctorsOrganizationVariousThemeVariationCaretakers Author:Barbara Crampton
“My mother teaches high school English, and she's an artist and a poet and a sculptor, she's published twelve poetry books. I grew up in a household in Venezuela with living, breathing art installations that were the way that she used to express herself, a highly creative environment where ideas were celebrated, where artistic expression was celebrated. Seeing her as somebody who was always able to have a creative output - if she felt sad, she wrote a poem, if she felt happy, she made a sculpture - I think for me, there was an early interest in finding outlets for my passions.” IfsThinkingWayArtMadeBookIdeasAbleSchoolUsedMotherArtistPassionFeltInterestTeachCreativeEnvironmentSeeingPoetExpressionGrewFindingsGrew UpHigh SchoolArtisticBreathingTwelveHouseholdSculptureOutletsMy PassionSculptorsOutputVenezuelaArtistic ExpressionInstallationSchool English Author:Jason Silva
“My ace in the hole as a human being used to be my capacity for remembering birthdays. I worked at it. Whenever I made a new friend, I made a point of finding out his or her birthday early on, and I would record it in my Filofax calendar.” HumansMadeRememberUsedHuman BeingsRecordsFindingsCapacityHolesUsed To BeBirthdayCalendarsNew FriendsAces Author:Susan Orlean
“I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?” IfsThinkingMenShouldTryingStoriesHomeUsedAcceptingWallFindingsFunctionPrisonPityToneFairyTopicsScornEscapismScornedFairy StoriesJailerPrison WallsFantasy StoriesFiction Stories Author:J. R. R. Tolkien
“Maybe his heart is searching for and not finding the place it used to live. I understand that because mine is searching and not finding too.” HeartUsedMinesFindings Author:Angela Johnson
“I used to think that when I grew up there wouldn't be so many rules. Back in elementary school there were rules about what entrance you used in the morning, what door you used going home, when you could talk in the library, how many paper towels you could use in the rest room, and how many drinks of water you could get during recess. And there was always somebody watching to make sure. What I'm finding out about growing older is that there are just as many rules about lots of things, but there's nobody watching.” ThinkingUseHomeSchoolUsedWaterRoomsMorningGrowingDoorsGrewDrinkPaperFindingsGrew UpLibraryEntrancesGrowing OlderElementary SchoolTowelsGoing HomeRecessPaper Towels Book:Alice in Rapture, Sort Of Source: Alice in Rapture, Sort Of
“But I was used to finding something deadly in things that attracted me; there was always something deadly lurking in anything I wanted, anything I loved.” WantedUsedFindingsLurkingSeparate Peace Book:A Separate Peace Source: A Separate Peace