Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe them to you, and to-… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings. — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
the description of lust was simple: two people learn they're compatible , attraction grows, and the ancient instinct to preserve the species… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
It's just I hate reading the description 'offbeat' about a character in a script, because I, along with Seth Green, Jamie Kennedy… — Breckin Meyer Copy Share Image
In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down,… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
To make a precise scientific description of reality out of words is like trying to build a rigid structure out of pure… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man. — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
One measure of the greatness of a work is that the characters who play roles in the narrative feel its essential truth.… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
The part of the game that fans will soon miss: the argument between manager and umpire! There was something special about watching… — Doug Harvey Copy Share Image
When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In my most extreme fluctuations I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God ...… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Famine, plague, death and war... that's a pretty good description of 1917-18. The war was meant to end quickly, but by 1917… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
What makes screenplays difficult are the things that require the most discipline and care and are just not seen by most people.… — Robert Towne Copy Share Image
“Her features were dainty, her small slender wrists climbed up to become the delicate shoulders that beckoned him. Her skin was like… — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
Oscar Pistorius is now infamous for reasons that I think everybody knows about, but when I hit on his story and put… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
A famous, very often quoted phrase says: "That government is best, which governs least." I do not believe this to be a… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If I don't have a project going, I sit down and begin to write something - a character sketch, a monologue, a… — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
My father died when I was 9 years old. The miserable condition of my family at that time is beyond description. My… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
Like all good citizens, the elderly and people with disabilities want to eradicate waste and fraud from government, but helping people with… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
To have children is a double living, the earthly fountain of youth, a continual fresh delight, a volcano as well as a… — Josephine Winslow Johnson Copy Share Image
I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a… — Sam Taylor-Wood Copy Share Image
“Even the kids, behind the slice of streetscape floating in the glass, had mastered the art of pretending not to see.” — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
There is no description, no image in any book that is capable of replacing the sight of real trees, and all of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Learning how to live in the greatest peace, partnership, and brotherhood with all men and women, of whatever description, is a moving… — Bill W Copy Share Image
My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance… — John Cleveland Copy Share Image
I am ever more intrigued by the correspondence between mathematics and physical facts. The adaptability of mathematics to the description of physical… — Nicolaas Bloembergen Copy Share Image
It is often said that reading is a gift, but to my mind that is an insufficient description, for the size of… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
This is exactly how the World Wide Web works: the HTML files are the pithy description on the paper tape, and your… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Is rule of thumb in writing game: if story requires many long descriptions of smells so vile that will give reader nausea,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point… — Edward Witten Copy Share Image
The old, slow, creaking descriptions are a thing of the past; today the rule is brevity - but every word must be… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“The unseen essential can be described in many ways and comes in many forms, but is always preceded by virtue.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“They called him a comical genius and carried his stories carefully home, and they wondered at how the stories spilled out on… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Even the beauty of the landscape was an abstraction, like the beauty of a man in an advertisement for a cologne you… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
My opinion with respect to immigration is, that except of useful mechanics and some particular description of men and professions, there is… — George Washington Copy Share Image
