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
That's what alcoholics do. It's in their job description: fall apart and then keep falling apart. — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I really like 'This Side of Paradise' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I think it's a cool description of a character. — Bridgit Mendler Copy Share Image
We're starting to realize that magicians have a lot of implicit know-ledge about how we perceive the world around us because they… — Richard Wiseman Copy Share Image
My description of fun would be to sit on someone's couch and watch TV. Regular cable TV. When I'm in a hotel,… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
The Divine was beyond description, beyond knowing, beyond comprehension. To say that the Divine was Creation divided by Destruction was as close… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
If it is possible for the human tongue to give the fullest description of God, I have come to the conclusion that… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
One who is caught in thought loses one's original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Lovecraft gives me the pip as he uses so much description that needs heavily condensing. — Leah Moore Copy Share Image
“In writing. Don't use adjectives which merely tell us how you want us to feel about the thing you are describing. I… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Too many people think that finding the reason God placed us here on earth will come in one assignment with a big… — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
I can't say enough about the two Marine divisions. If I use words like 'brilliant,' it would really be an under description… — Norman Schwarzkopf Copy Share Image
“A vast field opened like a blossoming tulip, flowers blooming in the rippling airs of spring. High and frothy trees hugged air… — Paul Andreas Wunderlich Copy Share Image
Sometimes I fantasize about learning to write in Khmer. Because if I could write in Khmer, my perspective would be very different,… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached. — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
landscape, that vast still life, invites description, not narration. It is lyric. It has no story: it is the beloved, and asks… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Indeed, the very first acknowledgment (as far as I am aware) of the attraction of mutilated bodies occurs in a founding description… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The great object of life is Sensation - to feel that we exist - even though in pain - it is this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
What is mathematics? Ask this question of person chosen at random, and you are likely to receive the answer "Mathematics is the… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
“The world we think we see is only a view, a collective description of the world that we create through our belief… — David Wolfe Copy Share Image
Part of what I am dealing with, with this blackness, is asking the question, "Where are those black people, who are as… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
There are multiple descriptions of the same real world situation. The only justification for language is to empower yourself. If the verbal… — Moshe Feldenkrais Copy Share Image
