All descriptions of matter are descriptions of modes of human perception within consciousness. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Ronnie had it right calling it Torture. That is a much more accurate description the way I see it. — Ronald Coase Copy Share Image
“The only thing that comes close to defining me correctly is my love.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Her freckles looked as if someone had blown cinnamon across her nose and high cheekbones.” — An Amish Match Jo Ann Brown Copy Share Image
“[My father] had a name for the bottom of the sky--'the hem of heaven.” — Nancy Horan Copy Share Image
The observer cannot be left out of the description of the observation. — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
Amy Winehouse - her surname's beginning to sound like a description of her liver. — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, unless the job description included a translation of the prologue of The Canterbury Tales, I was dreadfully under-qualified. — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
The things worth writing about, and the things worth reading about, are the things that feel almost beyond description at the start… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The description of the world that most people have is very limited. They are in the fog. Once in a while a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“She watches her mother drink, then sits by her again before the picture window to watch the snow fall, watching closely until… — Emma Richler Copy Share Image
“The house is seventies modern with sliding windows, gas-effect and a giant TV in the living room. There are almost no books.… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I saw Sonora before me, so otherworldly, so desolate, some cast-out mistress on the pale blue planet, and longed suddenly to stay.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
I just never did buy this idea that you have to live in Los Angeles to be an actor. I didn't see… — Jeff Daniels Copy Share Image
The quote-unquote 'description' of a leading man was once your tall, handsome man with the build of whatever, almost a trophy to… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
Ending up in the right place in this debate requires starting in the right place. The right place to start is the… — Orrin Hatch 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
You couldn't find nobody deader, not if you'd sarched for a week. Why, door nails, and Julius Caesar, and things o' that… — Laura E. Richards Copy Share Image
Gundar isn't so much a ship's captain as a reformed pirate and a heathen." [Evanlyn] looked apologetically at Gundar. "No offense, Gundar."… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
If we were magically shrunk and put into someone's brain while she was thinking, we would see all the pumps, pistons, gears… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
An American professor complained that a crypto-Marxist like me was invited in the USA, and I was denounced by the press in… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The British are proud of their ability to create a muddle and then muddle through all difficulties. I must shake the British… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Admirable, however, as the Paris of the present day appears to you, build up and put together again in imagination the Paris… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Financial innovation can be highly dangerous, though almost no one will tell you this. New financial products are typically created for sunny… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
“The hours stretch out in summer, the evenings go on and on; has he lost track of hours? Where are you, Zachariah?… — Emma Richler Copy Share Image
It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence,… — Anthony Bourdain 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
It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image