The ecclesiastical description of Hell is that of a horrible place of fire and torment; in Dante's Inferno, and in northern climes,… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
“This morning, light lapped the water as if God had spilt a goblet of molten gold upon a ground of darkest velvet.” — Geraldine Brooks 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
Many of us knuckle-dragging brush-painters think that 'behind the times' is part of our job description. Why deny ourselves the authentic journey… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
“The sky was as blue and delicate as a porcelain teacup, and the hills rolled gently in all directions, intersected occasionally with… — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share Image
“The atmosphere felt unexpectedly intense and the music was frantic. The beat made it both difficult to think straight and pleasant to… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
The theist must present an intelligible description of god. Until he does so, god makes no more sense than unie; both are… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
When asked ... [about] an underlying quantum world, Bohr would answer, 'There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
Of course, looking tough on inflation is part of any central banker's job description: if investors believe that inflation is going to… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Studying the universe engages us in something bigger than ourselves. Science tries to describe, in terms we can only grasp intuitively, things… — Guy Consolmagno Copy Share Image
The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Love is beyond description; but not beyond demonstrating. Love is beyond the mind because it is always new. Any product of the… — Barry Long Copy Share Image
We're starting to realize that magicians have a lot of implicit know-ledge about how we perceive the world around us because they… — Richard Wiseman Copy Share Image
“All kinds of weird stuff going down, whisperings in corners, significant matches struck and blown out. The whores, unoccupied, were drinking heavily.… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
“As I lay there, listening to the soft slap of the sea, and thinking these sad and strange thoughts, more and more… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
The Da Vinci Code may well be the only novel ever written that begins with the word 'renowned'... I think what enabled… — Geoffrey K. Pullum Copy Share Image
“When she did walk, to the bathroom between the chairs and the customers leaning back in them, oblivious to her manoeuvres, the… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
Capturing the beauty of the conversion of the water into wine, the poet Alexander Pope said, "The conscious water saw its Master… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
The switch to the market in Eastern Europe, of course, has not exactly been one of the greatest advertisements for the market.… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
“At the edge of the still, dark pool that was the sea, at the brimming edge of freedom where no boat was… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
“It was long past midnight. Laura's music played on. It was composed in the language of stars, tinkling in a crystal pool… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“More than being absurdly blond and absurdly messy, the Young Electrician had one of those extraordinarily sweet, extraordinarily vital, strangely mysterious, utterly… — Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Copy Share Image
What we need now is the description of the "describer" or, in other words, we need a theory of the observer. — Heinz von Foerster Copy Share Image
I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
Avoid restaurants with names that are improbable descriptions, such as the Purple Goose, the Blue Kangaroo or the Quilted Orangutan. — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
Needless to say, there was no one around remotely fitting the description of a normal person: I was at a writing conference. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The terrain of the mysteries is the ordinary. To seek out mystery, we don't have to go anywhere. We must simply change… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
There is nothing like wine for conjuring up feelings of contentment and goodwill. It is less of a drink than an experience,… — Thomas Conklin Copy Share Image
Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
I start with voice, maybe a sentence. That sentence might embody an image, and I go from there. One sentence to the… — Paul Lisicky Copy Share Image
“There is little more I can add short of dissecting the man, or going into intimate details such as the modest proportions… — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact. — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
Most of what Congress does fits the description of forcing one American to serve the purposes of another American. That description differs… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
We can all reduce our life to a description that makes people feel sorry for ourselves or we can expand our life… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people. — Jose Padilha Copy Share Image
Mathematics is one of the deepest and most powerful expressions of pure human reason, and, at the same time, the most fundamental… — Hyman Bass Copy Share Image
Ridicule, the weapon of all others most feared by enthusiasts of every description, and which from its predominance over such minds, often… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
In all probability, mental states are processes and activities of the brain. Exactly what activities, and exactly at what level of description,… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
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