It is only when science asks why, instead of simply describing how, that it becomes more than technology. When it asks why,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
women, when describing their roles in their organizations, usually referred to themselves as being in the middle of things. Not at the… — Sally Helgesen Copy Share Image
Premie' re approximation: j'e cris pour de truire, en les de crivant avec pre cision, des monstres nocturnes qui menacent d'envahir ma… — Alain Robbe-Grillet Copy Share Image
This is all very fine, but it won't do-Anatomy-botany-Nonsense! Sir, I know an old woman in Covent Garden, who understands botany better,… — Thomas Sydenham Copy Share Image
I have trouble describing my own style, since it's sort of like describing my own eye color or something. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
The elements of a good story are most definitely details, little bitty details. That does it, especially when you're describing, when you're… — Big Boi Copy Share Image
I don't ever like to feel myself in the position to demand of an actor that they trust I'm going to do… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
There are so many dimensions in my music, and I think mostly what people hear is hope - the describing of experiences… — Michael Tolcher Copy Share Image
My second novel, 'The Luminaries,' is set in the New Zealand gold rushes of the 1860s, though it's not really a historical… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
What we take anything to be profoundly affects how we go about describing it, and how we describe something profoundly affects how… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
The future depicted in a good SF story ought to be in fact possible, or at least plausible. That means that the… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
It struck me that Steve Jobs, known to be such a brilliant speaker, had a very difficult time explaining things when he… — Joshua Michael Stern Copy Share Image
And then the spirit brings hope, hope in the strictest Christian sense, hope which is hoping against hope. For an immediate hope… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The problem with describing poets as legislators is that at that level of politics - politics as political invention - poets have… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Writing about sex at length is a bit like describing mastication at length. It's the causes and the consequences and the meaning… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It's a clumsy way of describing… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being. — Armstrong Williams Copy Share Image
Some liberals think that describing any role that education gaps play in creating income inequality is some sort of sellout - that,… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
“It’s not about describing someone as that’s typically an attempt to make whatever they are comfortable for whoever we are. Instead, we… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
All photographs are about light. The great majority of photographs record light as a way of describing objects in space. A few… — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
I'm never going to write a whole paragraph describing what a living room looks like. — Steven Amsterdam Copy Share Image
I think you can do a lot, like describing people with their physical characteristics, things like that, but to me, I've always… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Inviting people to inquiry is much more powerful to me than describing my experience... When people hear me tell the story, they… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
