“Amid them and amid the obdurate angels and the wildflowers pushing up through the earth, Richard could again be one among many.” — Garth Risk Hallberg 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
What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close. — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
A lot of (Kyle's) stories when he was back home in Texas, a lot of his own personal opinions about what he… — Ayman Mohyeldin Copy Share Image
The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
The observer and the universe are part of the same universe. It's what science discovered at the beginning of this century, when… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
Jack London is a very generous description of my small hiking, bicycling, and canoeing habit. I myself feel like a weak urbanite… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
When the copulative kai [`and'] connects two nouns of the same case, [viz. nouns (either substantive or adjective, or participles), of personal… — Granville Sharp 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
Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“The sky was always full of birdsong and evening smells, piano music from a window, the stone buildings glowing against the blue,… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“Famous revolutionary,' you say, and the laughter pumps out of your chest like blood, great almost painful spurts of it splashing up… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
For me, good description usually consists of a few well-chosen details that will stand for everything else. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“There was an extravagant winter storm outside. The tinfoil sky flashed beyond the window, rattling in the frame, and once or twice… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
Learning how to live in the greatest peace, partnership, and brotherhood with all men and women, of whatever description, is a moving… — Bill W Copy Share Image
Everyone wants rather to be pleasing to women and that desire is not altogether, though it is very largely, a manifestation of… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
And then it was, that grief and pain made themselves known to me as never before. Note this, because I knew the… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
So many misconceptions surround the notion of heroism. Far too many categorize a hero as a champion on the battlefield, a commander… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
I cannot find any patience for those people who believe that you start writing when you sit down at your desk and… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
Resist Impulses to Label Yourself with Descriptions that Limit You in Any Way. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“Zach's eyes flash with light, caught by the peculiar greenness of early summer grass and the strobe effect of sun through wrought-iron… — Emma Richler 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
“She had an idea, but it was the wrong idea. It was hardly even an idea, just a white idea balloon with… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
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