Monologues, in some ways, are the most scientific descriptions of consciousness and even of gatherings. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Alphas simply did not grovel; arrogance was part of the job description. — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
Professional is not a label you give yourself - it's a description you hope others will apply to you. — David Maister Copy Share Image
“He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Someone once told me that being in the closet is like living in a vertical casket. Perfect description. — Jane Velez-Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I have seen many a face that was more good-looking — never one that looked half so good.” — Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Copy Share Image
“Detonations crash in from nearby like walls she's a void at the center of.” — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me. — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
“He swung around. His body, bathed in the first rays of the sun, was stippled with color like a stained glass saint.” — Cameron Dane Copy Share Image
Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left. — Barton Seaver Copy Share Image
“These hands are steady enough, but they are large. Had he been a proper pianist - he's dabbled inexpertly - his ten-note… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“The atmosphere beneath is languorous, and is so tinged with azure that what artists call the middle distance partakes also of that… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Bliss defies description, obviously, since it annihilates you, since you're not there to experience it. You get the lead-up and the come-down,… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
I wanted to be the conduit for somebody else's experiences, filtered through me, and passed on to other people. Which is the… — Juliet Stevenson Copy Share Image
Scatterbrain is one of those harmless little words you use a million times... Then it turns up in a crime scene description. — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
“She had always wanted to do every thing, and had made more progress in both drawing and music than many might have… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
When I write my scripts, there's a point at which if I'm not starting to see them visually, I feel like I'm… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
We can think of descriptions almost as computer languages, an operative description that only deals with very simple operations. Its code is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Character enough of an opposite description ... My opinion is ... that you could as soon scrub the blackamore white, as to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
One reason I avoid the American TV talk show circuit, when I'm over there, is that the tabloids and the gossip mill… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
While I have always thought that the motivation for looking for E.T. was both self-evident and patently worthy, it's possible that I'm… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
I can't say enough about the two Marine divisions. If I use words like 'brilliant,' it would really be an under description… — Norman Schwarzkopf Copy Share Image
The things I saw beggar description ... The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty, and bestiality were so overpowering… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Overt intelligent performances are not clues to the workings of minds; they are those workings. Boswell described Johnson's mind when he described… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
It is hubris, claim the critics of 'absolutism', to suppose that we could ever even approximate to a true description of how… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
“She stood at the edge of a glassy river lined with impossibly tall trees, fanning out their wide emerald leaves among the… — Shannon Messenger Copy Share Image
Do the structures of language and the structures of reality (by which I mean what actually happens) move along parallel lines? Does… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
The media is fully fine and hunky-dory with the idea that they may destroy somebody, and they think that's part of the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Wave particle duality is a core feature of our world. Or rather, we should say, it is a core feature of our… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
Any person of any philosophic persuasion who sits on a hot stove will verify without any intellectual argument whatsoever that he is… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
This principle that judges are not politicians lies at the very heart of a judicial job - of the judicial job description. — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
Love is your job description - no matter what you do for a living. If you ever feel unsure of what you're… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own. — Andrew Mason Copy Share Image
“The color of the sky was like a length of white chalk turned on its side and rubbed into asphalt. Sanded--that was… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
Whereas most other modern composers are engaged in manufacturing cocktails of every hue and description, I offer the public cold spring water. — Jean Sibelius Copy Share Image
Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.' — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
To say that a man is made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for those who intend to… — Hermann Joseph Muller Copy Share Image
First of all, principles should be general. That is, it must be possible to formulate them without use of what would be… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
