We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“When he lifted his head, the sun seemed impossibly close. Science-fictionally close.” — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible. — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
Storms are sex. They exist alongside and are indifferent to words and description and dissection. — Kevin Patterson Copy Share Image
For a sorcerer, reality, or the world as we all know it, is only a description. — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I can be described as many things, but no description of me is complete without saying 'Englishman.' My parents were from Liverpool… — Mike Myers Copy Share Image
“It was so pure, the snow, the purest of all powders, I thought, so pure it must be from elsewhere, from another… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
I have nothing to tell except travellers' stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“A writer need not be bound by flat statement like "It was a rough sea," when verbs like tumble and roil and… — Rebecca McClanahan Copy Share Image
“The world we think we see is only a view, a collective description of the world that we create through our belief… — David Wolfe Copy Share Image
What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific… — Hugo Gernsback Copy Share Image
The light in her eyes was beyond description, yet it did not instill improper thoughts: it inspired a love tempered by awe,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The more we know about this universe, the more mysterious it is. The old world that Job knew was marvelous enough, and… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
A dream inspiring a story is different than placing a description of a dream in a story. When you describe a character's… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“When she awakened in the a.m. into blind-slit shrinking nowhereness, it had all gone disorientingly quiet, and she would imagine for a… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
Textbooks describe DNA as a blueprint for a body. It's better seen as a recipe for making a body, because it is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
You're new here, aren't you?" Rolan asked. "Rose is visiting. She's a friend of the family." Viktoria said. "Ah," he said. "Now… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“Most of the passenger cars are lined with thick patterned carpets, upholstered in velvets in burgundies and violets and creams, as though… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
The generation of Isaiah did not require the detailed description; his account, "I saw the Lord," &c., sufficed. The generation of the… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
“She wasn't dressed like a student. She wore an elaborate burgundy dress with long skirts, a tight waist, and matching burgundy gloves… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
When I was a film critic, the reason I kind of found it disenchanting was because the things that I wanted to… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The Four Noble Truths are pragmatic rather than dogmatic. They suggest a course of action to be followed rather than a set… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
We all start out with the same alphabet. We are all unique. Talent is not the most important thing --- discipline and… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Revealingly, the central function of the Constitution as law--the supreme law--was to impose limitations not on the behavior of ordinary citizens but… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“Meantime the clang of the bows and the shouts of the combatants mixed fearfully with the sound of the trumpets, and drowned… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“A fighter, muses Rachel, is a fighter through and through, consistently irregular, a fighting man on every scale. Fractal, fractious, with a… — Emma Richler Copy Share Image
“I begin to describe a three-tier cake. The bottom tier would be a deep, dark devil's food cake filled with thick chocolate… — Stacey Ballis Copy Share Image
I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The last person I ever want working for me is someone who says 'that's not in my job description. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City. — Philip Morrison Copy Share Image
“What it must feel like to lie back with cut wrists in a warm bath, a voluptuous dwindling feeling.” — Michael Cisco Copy Share Image
Seedy wasn't a fair description for the place, because seeds imply eventual regrowth and renewal. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
