I just try to be honest, because I think that's part of my job description as a writer. — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
“The sun was deaf'nin' so high up, yay, it roared an' time streamed from it.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“She crooned on until her cigarette was gone. The ash in the wind blew around us like hesitant snow.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
They presented a description of the world to all of us which was very limited and narrow. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A good game has to have a fun core, which is a one-sentence description of why it's fun. — Paul Reiche III Copy Share Image
There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president. — Nancy Reagan Copy Share Image
Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
...course titles and even course descriptions often fail to reveal what is actually taught (much less learned)... — F. M. Scherer Copy Share Image
If, while observing the boundless universe, the writer is able to scrutinise his own self as well as others, the resulting incisiveness… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Neither believe nor reject any thing because any other person, or description of persons have rejected or believed it. Your own reason… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
As a militant troublemaker, I once wrote that it was the duty of every woman worthy of the description to upset men… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
If you talk about an issue, what comes back is a description of what you're wearing. Reporters only want to know how… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
As with all commandments, gratitude is a description of a successful mode of living. The thankful heart opens our eyes to a… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I think that as a playwright, if I detail that environment, then I'm taking away something from them [designers]. I'm taking away… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
For me, writing for kids is harder because they're a more discriminating audience. While adults might stay with you, if you lose… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The advantage of writing from experience is that it often provides you with details that you would never think of yourself, no… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
I enjoy places that have mystery and atmosphere, perhaps a patina of age, a suggestion rather than a description, a question or… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
I'm told there's a saying from those ancient times, kalos kai agathos, when someone or something is good and beautiful on the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What appear to be the most valuable aspects of the theoretical physics we have are the mathematical descriptions which enable us to… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
Do not the Rays which differ in Refrangibility differ also in Flexibity; and are they not by their different Inflexions separated from… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Sit not down without assurance. Get alone, and bring thy heart to the bar of trial: force it to answer the interrogatories… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I found Mr. Carter's actions toward the Republic of China so incredible that they defy description by socially acceptable expletives. If December… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
“He is even more horrifically beautiful than I was able to recall. They're all beautiful, unless they're hideous. That's the nature of… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“So long as our untried senses and our naïve heart recognize themselves and delight in the universe of qualifications, they flourish with… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
What a difference that extra 120 ppm has made for plants, and for animals and humans that depend on them. The more… — Paul Driessen Copy Share Image
Someone has described the modern American as a person who drives a bank financed car over a bond financed highway on credit… — Paul Billheimer Copy Share Image
My picture of the world is drawn in perspective and not like a model to scale. The foreground is occupied by human… — Frank P. Ramsey Copy Share Image
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