Whose are the truly labored sentences? From the weak and flimsy periods of the politician and literary man, we are glad to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Da Vinci Code may well be the only novel ever written that begins with the word 'renowned'... I think what enabled… — Geoffrey K. Pullum Copy Share Image
We're quite happy with our Big Bang description of cosmic origins. But actually, the Big Bang accounts for what happened only after… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
How can love be worthy of its name if one selects solely the pretty things and leaves out the hardships? It is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What do they do in these [private] clubs, anyway? Sit around saying things like 'Thank God I'm here. No Jews! What fun!… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I found Mr. Carter's actions toward the Republic of China so incredible that they defy description by socially acceptable expletives. If December… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
“A strong wind sang sadly as it bent the trees in front of the Hall. A half moon shone through the dark,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Addiction is not a fact of life but a description about how we are choosing to live. — Paul Pearsall Copy Share Image
I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not.… — Vanessa Lengies Copy Share Image
The last peculiarity of consciousness to which attention is to be drawn in this first rough description of its stream is that… — William James Copy Share Image
Pedro Teixeira, the great Portuguese merchant-adventurer, wrote a beautiful description of a coffeehouse with windows overlooking the Tigris and the ruins of… — Annia Ciezadlo 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
Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.' — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
This word "description" may be disconcerting when used to refer to what is generally called a translation. But when one wishes to… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“We awoke to a fabulation of ice, the sun shining like a weapon, light rocketing off every surface except the surfaces of… — Stephanie Vaughn 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
In description we hear and feel the absorption of the author in the material. We sense the presence of the creator of… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
“Mitch looks in her direction. He can't meet her eyes. It's as if she's semi-invisible, a kind of hovering blur.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Build a shield between yourself and the descriptions of the world that everyone else has. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nancy Drew was always changing her outfits. I despised girls' clothing, I couldn't wait to get home from school and get out… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
Again: there is nothing inherently superior about resistance. All our claims for the righteousness of resistance rest on the rightness of the… — Susan Sontag 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
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