God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Katya, for Lev, is a vortex, by turn alluring and animal, icy and disaffected, often in one same day. Katya is symmetry-breaking.” — Emma Richler Copy Share Image
There are hopes, the bloom of whose beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of description; too lovely, too delicate, too sacred… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
'Lucky Us' ends with a description of a photograph of the novel's fictional family. I could never get enough of my own… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Our situation here, without any exaggeration, is beyond description almost; it is such as eye has not seen nor ear heard, nor… — Peter Oliver Copy Share Image
Line is so versatile - you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or simply put a line around an idea… — Stan Smith Copy Share Image
Writing about sex at length is a bit like describing mastication at length. It's the causes and the consequences and the meaning… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
It's the nature of hearts to break. It's in their job description. When a heart is doing what it's supposed to be… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
I think the accurate description for the George W. Bush administration is a military plutocracy. Having lived and worked in the United… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
Your job description as a journalist is to question and scrutinize critically-neve r to repeat claims uncritically, no matter how highly placed… — Steig Larsson Copy Share Image
Trade is a social act. Whoever undertakes to sell any description of any goods to the public, does what affects the interest… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Trying to capture the physicists' precise mathematical description of the quantum world with our crude words and mental images is like playing… — George Johnson Copy Share Image
Ah!" I cried, springing up. "But no! no! My uncle shall never know it. He would insist upon doing it too. He… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
The world of enlightenment, and that which creates enlightenment, is much different than what most people would think. Most people have Hallmark… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Cultivate an ongoing stream of self-description, telling yourself what is happening. Get used to the idea that mind can penetrate the immediate… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
To call a posit a posit is not to patronize it. A posit can be unavoidable except at the cost of other… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“The thought washed over me like water on a flower shop window, like a soothing, cool lotion after you've showered and spent… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
I like to be right. I try not to miss the big ideas, forget the little ones, and try to get them… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
Somebody was telling me about the French Army rifle that was being advertised on eBay the other day - the description was,… — Roy Blunt Copy Share Image
Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work… — Nigel Rees Copy Share Image
I hope for an America where neither fundamentalist nor humanist will be a dirty word, but a fair description of the different… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and… — Robin Green Copy Share Image
By creating useful job descriptions and making clear what qualifications should be expected, the Department aims to help improve schools' ability to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What are you? (a Daimon) Oh please, let me give you the job description. Me, Dark-Hunter. You, Daimon. I hit, you bleed.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its description is a foremost resource of… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Every animal that walks the earth, or swims, or flies is precious beyond description, something so rare and wonderful that it equals… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
I think sensitive is the wrong description of me. I'm British, actually, so quite bad at expressing myself in conversation, as any… — James Blunt Copy Share Image
The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
“Through my sudden tears, the train lights smeared like shooting stars. Lying before the rippling blue window, below the slurred lights of… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
And when you clear away the cobwebs of the description of every job in the world, at the bottom of that job… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it. — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The fundamental principle in the analysis of propositions containing descriptions is this: Every proposition which we can understand must be composed wholly… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“There were hundreds of them, all dressed like silver dragons, all with long, streaming capes that looked like great wings, flapping and… — Tony Del Degan Copy Share Image
Once or twice I've been described as a light comedian. I consider this the most accurate description of my abilities I've ever… — Bing Crosby Copy Share Image
“If, however, the poetic end might have been as well or better attained without sacrifice of technical correctness in such matters, the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
My very first products were hand-made, one-of-a-kind pins. When I finally realized I could repeat a phrase to make multiples, 'intellectuals gone… — Anne Taintor Copy Share Image
A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens, from the richest to the poorest, as it was… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I had vainly been seeking a description of consciousness within science; instead, what I and others have to look for is a… — Amit Goswami Copy Share Image
...I don't see myself as a documentary photographer. I am more drawn to the image itself, rather than to the description of… — Beat Streuli Copy Share Image
