All descriptions of reality are limited expressions of the world of emptiness. Yet we attach to the descriptions and think they are… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Women have been taught that they are not powerful; they've been given an opposite description, that they are weak. The word "effeminate"… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
My hope is that the description of God's love in my life will give you the freedom and the courage to discover...… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
There's something about rushing water that I can watch for hours and feel as if I need to do nothing more. It's… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Intricately plotted, beautifully paced, The Music of the Spheres is an elegant historical novel rich in detail, at times Dickensian in its… — Martha Grimes Copy Share Image
Description needs to slide into a story like a snake through grass - silently, almost invisibly, without calling attention to itself. It… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
The pursuit of the vibrant seems to be the universal job description of the nation's city planners nowadays. It is also part… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
When we start making distinctions between soul and spirit, we're in very, very murky waters. There is the whole issue of the… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
Now take all these qualities together: order, balance, evolution and intelligence. What you have is a description of love. It's not the… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
An operation that eventually kills may be technically successful, and the man may die cured; and so a description of religion thatshowed… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
For generations, field guides to plants and animals have sharpened the pleasure of seeing by opening our minds to understanding. Now John… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
Perhaps randomness is not merely an adequate description for complex causes that we cannot specify. Perhaps the world really works this way,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I'm from the generation that's always been recording, from the very beginning. I learned to play the guitar on the four-track. I… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
If I describe a sunny morning in May (the buds, the wet-winged flies, the warm sun and cool breeze), I am also… — Clark Blaise Copy Share Image
Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look… — Alexander Kluge 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
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
“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
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
A famous, very often quoted phrase says: "That government is best, which governs least." I do not believe this to be a… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Her features were dainty, her small slender wrists climbed up to become the delicate shoulders that beckoned him. Her skin was like… — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
Oscar Pistorius is now infamous for reasons that I think everybody knows about, but when I hit on his story and put… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
What is the elephant in all our rooms? It is the global triumph of capitalism. Democracy is fiercely disputed. Freedom is under… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
The only object of theoretical physics is to calculate results that can be compared with experiment... it is quite unnecessary that any… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
I'd like to find someone to procreate with - as sexy as that sounds. If you're out and about and fit the… — Chloe Sevigny Copy Share Image
The description you have been given of the world is an aberrant one. It does not accept and give proper place to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions,… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
As you become more conscious of your body as eternity, a sense of ease, a fullness beyond description occurs. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Corporate types love to pretend their life is exciting. The whispers, fist-pumping and animated hand gestures are all designed to lift our… — Chetan Bhagat Copy Share Image
I'd like to be seen as an average Australian bloke. I can't think of... I can't think of a nobler description of… — John Howard Copy Share Image
Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A book can just be a description of a stick being snapped in half. If the reader is brought to feel the… — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
“It was a chilly morning after the night's rain, and the sun hung in the sky like a pale coin lost by… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Cut your manuscript ruthlessly but never throw anything away: it's amazing how often a discarded scene or description, which wouldn't fit in… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us - an energy which, if not thus distorted, would have blossomed… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Women do not help each other attain enlightenment because in the description of the world they've been given, unlike that of men,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I really like 'This Side of Paradise' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I think it's a cool description of a character. — Bridgit Mendler Copy Share Image
“His [Lord Peter's] long, amiable face looked as if it had generated spontaneously from his top hat, as white maggots breed from… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
We are looking for a complete, coherent, and simple understanding of reality. Given what we know about the universe, there seems to… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
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