There is one thing where people are always right. It is when they are describing what they have been feeling when watching… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
Poetry, from describing external events objectively, is becoming subjectified into a poetry of personal conscious expression. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that's a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of… — Jonathan Ive Copy Share Image
I think there's a huge difference between describing norms in a vivid way and singling out individual people. — Susan Fiske Copy Share Image
The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of… — Benjamin Lee Whorf Copy Share Image
Jim Pagliaroni joined the club tonight and is going to be a welcome addition. He was describing a girl that one of… — Jim Bouton Copy Share Image
I'd have to think about it, but I was listening to this Johnny Cash song today that Tom Waits wrote for him… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
As to describing me as an outsider throughout, and an outsider through and through - I have no reason to disagree. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
We create truths by describing, or by re-describing , our beliefs and observations. Our task, and the task of every artist and… — Anne Bogart Copy Share Image
When I'm describing wartime activities or violence I don't want to be too ornate, to prettify the picture. Once we trace them… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found… — Naomi Weisstein Copy Share Image
Describing some kinds of feelings comes across as too excessive in the first person. If you put it in the third person,… — Moyra Davey Copy Share Image
The gloomiest way of describing the ancient world is it is misogyny from A to Z, really. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
What men don't want, in fact what anyone who's any sort of thrill-seeking, intelligent adult doesn't want, is some crushing bore describing… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
An announcement of [Christopher] Zeeman's lecture at Northwestern University in the spring of 1977 contains a quote describing catastrophe theory as the… — Stephen Smale Copy Share Image
Describing Starry Night: Firmament and planets both disappeared, but the mighty breath which gives life to all things and in which all… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I'm not in the business of telling people what to do. I'm much more in the business of describing things, situations and… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The Da Vinci Code may well be the only novel ever written that begins with the word 'renowned'... I think what enabled… — Geoffrey K. Pullum Copy Share Image
Describing laughter: The sound is produced by a deep inspiration followed by short, interrupted, spasmodic contractions of the chest, and especially the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control. Describing John von Neumann's aspiration for the application of computers… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
We should not allow ourselves to believe that writers like Poe have more imagination than those who are content with describing things… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
I have trouble describing characters because there is just too much going on in human beings. — Lisa Kudrow Copy Share Image
When I would be on the stage singing, I would see a movie of something that happened, I would be telling the… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
Orwell says straight, look, in England what comes out in a free country is not very different from this totalitarian monster that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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