One who is caught in thought loses one's original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If it is possible for the human tongue to give the fullest description of God, I have come to the conclusion that… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Humanities deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for continuing our quest. and our goal is nothing less than a complete description… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
“Tricky was a plain-faced man with a very handsome voice - a voice like the sound of a clarinet, at once liquid… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached. — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
Commentating, illustrating, description-giving Adjective expert. Analyzing, surmising, Musical, myth-seeking people of the universe... This is yours! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Tornadoes were, in out part of Central Illinois, the dimensionless point at which parallel lines met and whirled and blew up. They… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Liberals and leftists are not wrong in describing romanticism as reactionary, because it did indeed become that after 1810. The problem is… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
He was born a King. The wise men came from the East and asked, 'Where is He that is born King of… — W. A. Criswell Copy Share Image
Now Europe are experiencing a wave of eroding solidarity, first of certain societies and then entire governments. At the same time, we… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The tests which showed that this was the only rifle which had the markings which were shown on the bullets; the fact… — John Sherman Cooper Copy Share Image
Let's have some boilerplate language that accurately describes the candidate that we're talking about. If readers are unfamiliar, here are the descriptions… — Ryan Grim Copy Share Image
“Bicycles, bullock carts, and buses that belched thick, black smoke moved in anarchic streams with the auto rickshaws and cars along the… — Ken Doyle Copy Share Image
In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing. Abstract art is controlled visual magic based on laws and methodology. Abstraction generally involves… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
In the aftermath of the recent wave action in the Indian Ocean, even the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williamson [sic], proved… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I mean not to accuse any one, but to take the shame upon myself, in common, indeed, with the whole parliament of… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Treatment Plans and Interventions for Depression and Anxiety Disorders provides clinicians with essential guidelines to treat patients in the era of managed… — Judith S. Beck Copy Share Image
State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries,… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
“In writing. Don't use adjectives which merely tell us how you want us to feel about the thing you are describing. I… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The true liberty of the press is amply secured by permitting every man to publish his opinion; but it is due to… — Thomas McKean Copy Share Image
I think to adequately manage a crisis, you have to see it. Because there's only so much somebody else can tell you… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
“There was this hot, yellowy stillness the air always got in the minutes before the last bell, as if it were stiffening… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one. Hence, descriptions of a software entity that abstract away its… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
There is no point in being a responsible member of society, nor is there any point in being an irresponsible member of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
“I have sincerely tried not to deride the action of men, not to lament nor to abhor them. I have done all… — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
For me, setting and description is a challenge. I always want to get that part just right, and sometimes the words won't… — Kim Smith Copy Share Image
When I used to model, the job description is 'shut up and pose.' There are people today who would really like me… — Kathy Ireland Copy Share Image
If you're selling something on Craiglist, it's never a good idea to end the description with, May have lice. — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
“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
There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I take issue with many people's description of people being "Illegal" Immigrants. There aren't any illegal Human Beings as far as I'm… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
Conceptual art is entirely word-bound. It is, in fact, the kind of art that is exhausted in its verbal description. — Alexander Stoddart Copy Share Image
Here's the problem: the description of the world is always reduced to yes or no, black or white. Superficial stories. Superhero stories.… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image