True wit is everlasting, like the sun; describing all men, but described by none. — George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham Copy Share Image
Murder is a crime. Describing Murder is not. Sex is not a crime. Describing sex is. — Gershon Legman Copy Share Image
A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
You won't catch Liberal Democrats describing trade unionists as wreckers. — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one… — Paul de Man Copy Share Image
Describing the person I am would best be through music. When I'm up on stage and I'm singing my heart out, I… — Thia Megia Copy Share Image
“The better and longer way is to describe the experience I want the users to have. That means describing the users’ world… — Giles Colborne Copy Share Image
We are working on creating self-describing, self-organizing, self-diagnosing and self-repairing networks. — John Seely Brown Copy Share Image
English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of… — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it. — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Our language for describing emotions is very crude... that's what music is for, I guess. — Ben Goertzel Copy Share Image
I grew up in a world where the majority of people were black, so that wasn't the defining quality of anyone. When… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
The difficulty involved in the proper and adequate means of describing changes in continuous deformable bodies is the method of differential equations.… — Max Born Copy Share Image
Everything that can happen, does. That's quantum mechanics. But this does not mean everything happens. The rest of physics is about describing… — Antony Garrett Lisi Copy Share Image
"Real" drawing is about specifics. It's about describing an object as accurately as possible. In a comic strip you have to draw… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
Picture a place called the Karma Kafe and it'll save me the bother of describing it. There was nothing in it you… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
We get to the point then with modern science where you could almost say that modern science is the art of describing… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
When my husband first read a draft, he said, "You spend too much time describing the characters' outfits." He was right. I… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful. ... With the… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
I believe I was raised with feminist values, but I don't think I ever heard my Mom call herself a feminist. Before… — Julie Zeilinger Copy Share Image
To see life. To see the world. To watch the faces of the poor, and the gestures of the proud. To see… — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
Enchanting is not the word that would immediately spring to mind when describing a play that deals with fractal geometry, iterated algorithms,… — Lyn Gardner Copy Share Image
Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient—dealing with it by making statements about it,… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
The Moon is a white strange world, great, white, soft-seeming globe in the night sky, and what she actually communicates to me… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Modern physics is describing what the ancient wisdom keepers of the Americas have long known. These shamans, known as 'the Earthkeepers,' say… — Alberto Villoldo Copy Share Image
I'm more into describing a scenario and I move around in that scenario. — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
Describing Wallace Stegner as an 'author' is like describing a grizzly as 'brown.' — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
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