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
As you become more conscious of your body as eternity, a sense of ease, a fullness beyond description occurs. — 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
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
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
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
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
I think the word 'social entrepreneur' is a really good description of what I am. What that means me to is that… — Blake Mycoskie Copy Share Image
When I first decided I wanted to be a writer, when I was 10, 11 years old, the books that I loved… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
When you graduate is when you start to find yourself looking at the information in the audition breakdown and it says tall… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
When we have this description, of what a sketch is, itsattributes, we can then start inventing new things thatshare those attributes, and… — Bill Buxton Copy Share Image
“Zachariah's eyes were described as being of the deepest blue. Yet were a person to shine a light at him tonight, straight… — Emma Richler Copy Share Image
Kant's description of most ethical duties reads more like a description of moral virtues and vices. Once we see this, we see… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. Love, and don't be caught in… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
[I had a sense of interior panic].Always. I didn't really know what to call it for a long time, but I have… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
There never did, there never will, and there never can exist a parliament, or any description of men, or any generation of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Kripke says that physicalists like me can't explain the 'apparent contingency' of mind-brain identities. He maintains that, if I really believed that… — David Papineau 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
My stepfather, John O'Hara, was the goodest man there was. He was not a man of many words, but of carefully chosen… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids… — Cressida Cowell Copy Share Image
Schizophrenia --its nature, etiology, and the kind of therapy to use for it--remains one of the most puzzling of the mental illnesses.… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
This word "description" may be disconcerting when used to refer to what is generally called a translation. But when one wishes to… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Nancy Drew was always changing her outfits. I despised girls' clothing, I couldn't wait to get home from school and get out… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
The main difference between commissioned work and work I do for myself is that if I'm doing for myself, I don't have… — Julie Dillon Copy Share Image
I saw that everything famous and beautiful in the world, if we judge by the descriptions and drawings of writers and artists,… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
Generalizations about the "way women are" and estimates of what is appropriate for most women no longer justify denying opportunity to women… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
When philosophers try to understand consciousness, much of what they claim is not conceptual analysis at all, though it may be shopped… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
Engineering producers who don't play and have technology as a background may be the reason why there's a lot of cold non-musical… — Bill Laswell Copy Share Image
The sorcerer's description of the world is perceivable. But our insistence on holding on to our standard version of reality renders us… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
“I look out at the reservation, still and glittering with casinos, and think of all the death dried up and buried in… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping. — Dean Young Copy Share Image
What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Thus the theory of description matters most. It is the theory of the word for those For whom the word is the… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I won't read a book that starts with a description of the weather. I don't read books over 300 pages, though I'll… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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