I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him. — John Thaw Copy Share Image
There was a time when "sound as a dollar" was a description, not a joke. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Resist Impulses to Label Yourself with Descriptions that Limit You in Any Way. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“And out the bus window, here is my dead world come true, my whole dead world in motion.” — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
Motherhood is like Albania- you can't trust the descriptions in the books, you have to go there. — Marni Jackson Copy Share Image
Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
I've been called a minimalist composer for more than 30 years, and while I've never really agreed with the description, I've gotten… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
“To put it succinctly: description without prescription is the germ of resignation, and prescription without description is mere whim.” — Reza Negarestani Copy Share Image
The truly enlightened are not necessarily very religious. Religon is a convienent description to take care of our fears, to passify us. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Suicide carries in its aftermath a level of confusion and devastation that is, for the most part, beyond description. — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“Everything about her was sweet, pale like honey. You would not have been surprised to see a bee caught in the tangles… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
I have this tattooed on my left side! I love the saying and it's a perfect description of Karma, don't judge/discriminate and… — Plato Copy Share Image
How extraordinary was my life an incident may illustrate... [As a youth] I was fascinated by a description of Niagara Falls. I… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Early on, I settled on the first-person strategy as a way to deal with exposition and world-description issues. As long as the… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story. Good description is a learned skill,one of the prime reasons… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The Rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“I hiked up a path and into the woods, thinking about what I should be thinking about and almost having a real… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
"Sinner" is a present-tense description of everyone, including those who have put their faith in Christ. Of course, those who have called… — Edward T Welch Copy Share Image
"I know perfectly well that at this moment the whole universe is listening to us," Jean Giraudoux wrote in The Madwoman of… — Frank Drake Copy Share Image
But, who is Death? A figure that harrows and wastes wherever and however it pleases. This is also a possible description of… — Alejandra Pizarnik Copy Share Image
“The cyclone had set the house down gently, very gently – for a cyclone—in the midst of a country of marvelous beauty.… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Darwin, Marx, and Freud meet. They may have understood other things, but the human soul, and in particular the soul of Culture-man,… — Francis Parker Yockey Copy Share Image
“It slowly began to dawn on me that I had been staring at her for an impossible amount of time. Lost in… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
By a generative grammar I mean simply a system of rules that in some explicit and well-defined way assigns structural descriptions to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In description we hear and feel the absorption of the author in the material. We sense the presence of the creator of… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Remarks such as 'great Australian', 'larger than life' are sometimes used where they are not appropriate. But in the case of Kerry… — John Howard Copy Share Image
“And across the water, you would swear you could sniff it all; the cinnamon and the cloves, the frankincense and the honey… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
If my interlocutor desires to convince me that Jupiter has inhabitants, and that his description of them is accurate, it is for… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
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