In 1939 Winston Churchill, describing the 5000-mile peaceful border dividing Canada and the United States, said, 'That long frontier from the Atlantic… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If you are describing any occurrence... make two or more distinct reports at different times... We discriminate at first only a few… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If a little less time was devoted to the translation of letters by Julius Caesar describing Britain 2000 years ago and a… — Ronald Sydney Nyholm Copy Share Image
Feature film can have a major role in explaining ideas and describing peoples' lives and their struggles. — Steve Bannon Copy Share Image
We tend to think of consecration only as yielding up, when divinely directed, our material possessions. But ultimate consecration is the yielding… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I'm really, really dumb about describing wine, but I like wine that's full-bodied and dry. — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
Writing for children is as easy as describing the history of the Byzantium in three words. — Mo Willems Copy Share Image
Last night, it was so cold, the flashers in New York were only describing themselves. — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
My three years at the NIH were critical in my scientific education. I learned an immense amount about the research process: developing… — Stanley B. Prusiner Copy Share Image
Often while reading a book one feels that the author wouold heave preferred to paint rather than to wirte; one can sense… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the… — Inga Muscio Copy Share Image
People hate to describe their music. What we have come to call it is "beat up your mom" music. As far as… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
When I see a movie, the music often gets in the way for me. It's something that, say, for myself and Claire,… — Stuart A. Staples Copy Share Image
I think the tendency to over-explain and over describe is one of the most common failings in fantasy. It's an unfortunate piece… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
While I am describing to you how Nature works, you won't understand why Nature works that way. But you see, nobody understands… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I'm really bad at describing my books. Journalists like to have things like "It's The Terminator Meets the Seven Dwarfs." And I… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
A journalist asked this to my father. He spent a day with me and interviewing my friends/colleagues and didn't understand how I… — Christopher Poole Copy Share Image
It was a different sexual situation going on than it is in the '80s and '90s, and I did a very poor… — Wilt Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Our best theory of describing space at a fundamental level is probably string theory. — Alan Guth Copy Share Image
Our generation, unfortunately, is stuck to our phones - and, like, Twitter - constantly, which I have no problem with. I'd say… — Israel Broussard Copy Share Image
Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Poetry is the most informative of all of the arts because everything comes down to poetry. No matter what it is we… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Leadership is an elusive concept, hard to describe and impossible to prescribe. It is more evident in its absence, so that when… — Patrick Dodson Copy Share Image
