I had been pretty well made a prisoner by school, by society. I had been given this description of the world that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
However well equipped our language, it can never be forearmed against all possible cases that may arise and call for description: fact… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations. — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
“...his eyes were exactly the color of that gleaming golden-brown moss you see on stones under the clear water of running brooks.” — Eleanor Cameron Copy Share Image
When you get past making labels for things, it is possible to combine and transform elements into new things. Look at things… — Corita Kent Copy Share Image
All I can really say is it's bloodier than hell. In this one I'm going to be much more direct and honest… — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
“The sky was low and broody, but from here, near the treeline, you could see the forest rolling down into the valley,… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
I have observed that as long as one lives and bestirs himself, he can always find food and raiment, though it may… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato's description of the Supreme Being,--that truth is His body and light His… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
... I still wish to contend that some metaphors enable us to see aspects of reality that the metaphor's production helps to… — Max Black Copy Share Image
The rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses' tails on cats' bowels, and may be exhaustively… — William James Copy Share Image
I heard the opening bar of 'Help' as I headed down Polk Street. Every single time I've heard that tune I've taken… — Oscar Zeta Acosta Copy Share Image
“I stumble across the sea of tarmac, finding pavement, concealment and a brick wall. Palms brace against the scrubby surface. My stomach… — Rebecca Clare Smith 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
“She was a large, boneless woman who draped herself like an old blanket over the chairs of the apartment, staring for hours… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
The most beautiful conception of immortality of which I know, and certainly one that by contrast shows the utter vulgarity of Christian… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
In 1915 Sophie Tauber and I carried out our first works in the simplest forms, using painting, embroidery and pasted paper (without… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
Again: there is nothing inherently superior about resistance. All our claims for the righteousness of resistance rest on the rightness of the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state. If they are to be treated as anything but… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Nobody would know me from my own description of myself; which is why, when called upon (rarely, I grant) to provide an… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
The single most important technique for making progress is to write ten words. Doesn't matter if you're badly stuck, or your day… — Naomi Novik 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
Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
“He was sometimes stern but more often kindly---just according to his lights, but he saw the world in simple shades of black… — John Christopher Copy Share Image
It's been said that alcoholics are egomaniacs with low self -esteem. It's the prefect description. Being larger than life and yet your… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I was vanquished by a deer!' A giant magical flying deer with fangs,' Seth said, parroting a description Gavin had shared earlier.… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
The Book of Revelation is a description of one path to the New Jerusalem, but this scenario is not inevitable. — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing. — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Faith is the physical description of God. That's what He is. It's the only word we have in our language to accurately… — Jim Rowe Copy Share Image
landscape, that vast still life, invites description, not narration. It is lyric. It has no story: it is the beloved, and asks… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
“The house was very quiet, and the fog—we are in November now—pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“A thousand stories had painted cities in his mind, the great cities of kings and queens, of thrones and powers and legends,… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
“Fitz pulled her forward, and the warm tingling in her hand shot through her body--like a million feathers swelling underneath her skin,… — Shannon Messenger Copy Share Image
I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I'll write descriptions of… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
In this book I do not intend to give a blow-by-blow description of a sex bout: I find them inartistic, clinical and… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
