The ancients of the ideal description, instead of trying to turn their impracticable chimeras, as does the modern dreamer, into social and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn't bring this upon themselves. They are the victims… — Mia Farrow Copy Share Image
One of the things I like about performing on the stage is that it is a kind of meditative experience. Time does… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
Man torturing man is a fiend beyond description. You turn a corner in the dark and there he is. You congeal into… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Literature especially has an interesting relationship to photography - to observation, to description, to fiction: taking something that you see and elaborating,… — Larry Sultan Copy Share Image
Freudian psychoanalytical theory is a mythology that answers pretty well to Levi-Strauss's descriptions. It brings some kind of order into incoherence; it,… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“It’s not about describing someone as that’s typically an attempt to make whatever they are comfortable for whoever we are. Instead, we… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The main challenge that television presents is that I have a tendency to say things with a great deal of precision and… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
If you think reading a book is hard, you should try writing one. Because it's even harder. It's still not as hard… — Erik Wolpaw Copy Share Image
Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“Naming can satisfy a need, it can shorten a conversation that otherwise might go on for hours.” — Nihad Sirees Copy Share Image
“He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
There arent many great passages written about food, but I love one by George Millar, who worked for the SOE in the… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Famine, plague, death and war... that's a pretty good description of 1917-18. The war was meant to end quickly, but by 1917… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
They presented a description of the world to all of us which was very limited and narrow. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
The apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet… — James Madison Copy Share Image
What appear to us to be causal explanations are in fact just stories—descriptions of what happened that tell us little, if anything,… — Duncan J. Watts Copy Share Image
“The sun was deaf'nin' so high up, yay, it roared an' time streamed from it.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
I have never seen an adequate description anywhere of the amazement, the uncomprehending horror of the bulk of the American people which… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
