The greater the burden a man takes upon his shoulders, the stronger he must be to carry it. No words are unmentionable,… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
Alan Turing gave us a mathematical model of digital computing that has completely withstood the test of time. He gave us a… — George Dyson Copy Share Image
My mother used to push 'Wuthering Heights' on me as a boy, and I sensed from her breathy description of the story… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
[John's Adams] description of [Benjamin] Franklin in a letter to [his wife] Abigail in 1775 is laudatory. Only when he experiences all… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
A snarky but accurate description of monetary policy over the past five years is that the Federal Reserve successfully replaced the technology… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
His rage passes description - the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is impossible to describe a landscape so validly as to exclude all other descriptions, for no one can see the landscape… — Frithjof Schuon Copy Share Image
We're quite happy with our Big Bang description of cosmic origins. But actually, the Big Bang accounts for what happened only after… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Scientists often invent words to fill the holes in their understanding.These words are meant as conveniences until real understanding can be found.… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
The president is the cube of ice one places in the pot of a houseplant, providing a steady amount of nourishment over… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In those same decades, most UFO sightings were made in the daytime and frequently at close range, when shapes and surface features… — Don Berliner Copy Share Image
It's quite clear that Gore won most of the votes. I think the accurate description for them is a military plutocracy. Having… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
“Tonight the sun has died like an Emperor ... great scarlet arcs of silk ... saffron ... green ... crimson ... and… — John Coldstream Copy Share Image
There are certainly lots of jobs in computer coding, but coding doesn't really require advanced mathematics. And engineering jobs, they vary widely… — Anya Kamenetz 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 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
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
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
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
“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
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 prescription of the equality of human beings is not a description of an alleged actual equality among humans: it is a… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not.… — Vanessa Lengies Copy Share Image
Whenever I fill out the job description I put 'songwriter', never 'singer' or 'artist.' Singers come and go. — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
“Her mouth was a gash of red, like the torn-open stomach of a sacrifice, bloody and oracular. Behind it her teeth shone… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
I met soldiers coming back from war and I was impressed by their description of PTSD, all the symptoms: the outburst of… — Alice Winocour Copy Share Image
In meditation you can erase the conditioning. But still, you have to fight the description of the world that everyone else is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you have been in the vicinity of the sacred - ever brushed against the holy - you retain it more in… — Daniel Taylor Copy Share Image
Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Love scenes, if genuine, are indescribable; for to those who have enacted them the most elaborate description seems tame, and to those… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
The Tea Party is simply a loose description of local activism driven by Americans who want smaller government and more self-reliance. That… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
When you realize that there's a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you've identified the problem,… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
Recently we've been hearing a lot about women "having it all." Myself, I think that is not really an accurate description of… — Sylvia Ann Hewlett Copy Share Image
People always ask what a book is about, as if it has to be about something. I don't want to write books… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
You write the facts as you see them, and there isn't a lull with a lot of description. No wonder people like… — Lily King Copy Share Image
“Mitch looks in her direction. He can't meet her eyes. It's as if she's semi-invisible, a kind of hovering blur.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
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