[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Always tell us where we are. And don't just tell us where something is, make it pay off. Use description of landscape… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
We believe in encouraging the talented, but we believe that while survival of the fittest may be a good working description of… — Mario Cuomo 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
No prosaic description can portray the grandeur of 40 miles of rugged mountains rising beyond a placid lake in which each shadowy… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“At last he said, "Did you come out of the big mountains?" Gitano shook his head slowly. "No, I walked down the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a Happy state in this World: he that… — John Locke Copy Share Image
If you're seen as beautiful or sexy then your only options in terms of character descriptions are beautiful, sexy, cute - and… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
In Sister Swing, the two sisters have boyfriends and they go to bed with them, but the descriptions are not graphic. They're… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn't bring this upon themselves. They are the victims… — Mia Farrow Copy Share Image
The Sage of Toronto... spent several decades marveling at the numerous freedoms created by a "global village" instantly and effortlessly accessible to… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
At every turn you have to find a new kind of self-sovereignty over your environment. Every kid I see is at the… — Daniel Gillies Copy Share Image
One cannot ignore half of life for the purposes of science, and then claim that the results of science give a full… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
There is no exercise of the intellect which is not, in the final analysis, useless. A philosophical doctrine begins as a plausible… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
You’re a guardian angel now.”… I’m your guardian angel,” he said. “I get my very own guardian angel? What, exactly, is your… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
This is the entertainment industry, so game designers have to have a creative mind and also have to be able to stand… — Shigeru Miyamoto Copy Share Image
The word 'Italy' is a geographical expression, a description which is useful shorthand, but has none of the political significance the efforts… — Klemens von Metternich Copy Share Image
I feel as though I am trying to describe a three-dimensional experience while living in a two-dimension world. The appropriate words, descriptions,… — Mary C. Neal Copy Share Image
The total number of people that do a job that has the same description as mine in the entire world is fewer… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
A page of Addison or of Irving will teach more of style than a whole manual of rules, whilst a story of… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
My only description for me is that there's no throwaway people. That's the creed that I live by. It doesn't matter if… — Arlo Guthrie Copy Share Image
I don't want any description of me to be accurate; I want it to be flattering. I don't think people who have… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
If there is a lack of specificity in Grossman's description of the town and the walkers, and if the story perhaps sometimes… — Ian Sansom Copy Share Image
So near are the boundaries of panegyric and invective, that a worn-out sinner is sometimes found to make the best declaimer against… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
The absolute base-level thing that you do as a new screenwriter is send out query letters. Literally, you just say, 'Hi, Mr.… — Evan Daugherty Copy Share Image
Literature especially has an interesting relationship to photography - to observation, to description, to fiction: taking something that you see and elaborating,… — Larry Sultan Copy Share Image
Brand planning must continue to paint a vivid description of the consumer today. The challenge is that it can feel like this… — James W. Moseley Copy Share Image
I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you… — Gary Cooper Copy Share Image
On the left is the realist tradition of the 19th century, with its impulse to social description, radical criticism and meditation on… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The physicist may be satisfied when he has the mathematical scheme and knows how to use for the interpretation of the experiments.… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
“If only the herdsman had not brought him up with the flocks, not reared him, Paris, Alexander, to watch his flock by… — Euripides Copy Share Image
Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which… — Albert Camus 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
Photographers tend not to photograph what they can’t see, which is the very reason one should try to attempt it. Otherwise we’re… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
Remember the 'Parable of the Talents' in the New Testament? Christ exhorts us to be the best we can be by developing… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I missed my entrance in a production of 'Blade to the Heat' at Thick Description in San Francisco. I came into the… — Colman Domingo Copy Share Image
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