Most of us have developed a fairly extensive vocabulary for describing pain, as though the journal were a doctor requiring much detail… — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
Some of the funniest things are just situations in life that are funny. The way people interact. People describing their first kiss… — Nathan Fielder Copy Share Image
I got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was actually describing on twitter… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Despite all the videos you see from the Ministry of Defence or the Pentagon, and all the sanitised language describing smart bombs… — Marie Colvin Copy Share Image
Martina Navratilova is not a 'girl,' nor is Debi Thomas or Katarina Witt, and the women skaters weren't 'cute' in 1988. The… — Anita DeFrantz Copy Share Image
I strenuously object to the very word "grotesque" which has become hackneyed to the point of nausea...I would prefer my music to… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
Do you know how writers often say the characters take over... But that is more or less what it always feels like… — Wes Anderson Copy Share Image
He's a boating enthusiast, although that phrase seems too weak to describe the level of his interest, kind of like describing someone… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
You can be a fanatical millennialist religious mystic, and you are, in a certain way, not outside of ideology. Your position can… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a fairly logical, scientific and somewhat reserved person. Maura Isles, the Boston medical examiner who appears in… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
Many people have told me that my books read like novels. Perhaps this is because, when I write, I feel I am… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
There was a time when formal clothes were one of life's great pleasures, as well as a way of describing instantly a… — Peter York Copy Share Image
Every intelligent person, whether he's an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of… — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
I use a lot of similes and metaphors when I work, simply because it's my best way of describing a building or… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
I think that a symbolism is attached to particular images, becomes marked in the unconscious. To exorcise it, to rearrange it, to… — Sarah Charlesworth Copy Share Image
As a writer, I never paid much attention to the length of titles. I've just wanted them to communicate the emotional overtones… — Jacob Bannon Copy Share Image
My feeling is, if I can describe the way a steak looks on the plate, when it's just kind of juices are… — Pete Wells Copy Share Image
There is no justifiable prediction about how the hypothesis will hold up in the future; its degree of corroboration simply is a… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
(Brazil:) I've never beheld such a paradise. The people are enchanting and--a mercy on this earth of ours--this is the only placewhere… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
A painting of a person can be descriptive, but for me it's about all the things that make up a picture -… — Elizabeth Peyton Copy Share Image
Always tell us where we are. And don't just tell us where something is, make it pay off. Use description of landscape… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
As an artist, you don't think about the parabola or the arc you're describing or where you're going to ultimately end up,… — Michael Nesmith Copy Share Image
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
