“If I could tell you about Red I would sing to you of fire Sweet like cherries Burning like cinnamon Smelling like… — Dixie Dawn Miller Goode Copy Share Image
The prince's official job description as king will be 'defender of the faith,' which currently means the state-financed absurdity of the Anglican… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I… — Jonathan Kozol 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
St. Augustine wrote that basically it is not possible to understand what was being described in Genesis. It was not intended as… — Richard Dawkins 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
We depend on our words... Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others. We must strive continually to extend the… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
Science is the description of phenomena and the formulation of their relations. — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
Mental patterns do not originate out of inorganic nature. They originate out of society, which originates out of inorganic nature. And, as… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“I see foxes often, but always they are crossing fallow fields in the distance. Gold flecks on faraway expanses of green. Magnetic… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
He was born a King. The wise men came from the East and asked, 'Where is He that is born King of… — W. A. Criswell Copy Share Image
Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff didn't like the word 'horror'. They, like I, went for the French description: 'the theatre of the… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
Gradually, you were given a description of the world, a way of seeing, which is largely sexual. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I am absolutely sick unto death of hearing people say - they all say this; it must be Item One on the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The type of figleaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals… — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
There's nothing "wrong" with anything. "Wrong" is a relative term, indicating the opposite of that which you call "right." Yet, what is… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“The full moon, well risen in a cloudless eastern sky, covered the high solitude with its light. We are not conscious of… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
For myself, the only way I know how to make a book is to construct it like a collage: a bit of… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“And out the bus window, here is my dead world come true, my whole dead world in motion.” — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
We have never observed infinity in nature. Whenever you have infinities in a theory, that's where the theory fails as a description… — Janna Levin 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
“As I lay there, listening to the soft slap of the sea, and thinking these sad and strange thoughts, more and more… — Iris Murdoch 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
Studying the universe engages us in something bigger than ourselves. Science tries to describe, in terms we can only grasp intuitively, things… — Guy Consolmagno Copy Share Image
