The main difference between commissioned work and work I do for myself is that if I'm doing for myself, I don't have… — Julie Dillon Copy Share Image
...monetary exchanges have interesting things in common; Gresham's law, if true, says what one of these interesting things is. But what is… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
Any description of a person that comes from the outside is very hard to deal with. People don't like being summarised. It's… — Eleanor Catton 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
Evidently one cannot look for long at the Last Supper without ceasing to study it as a composition, and beginning to speak… — Kenneth Clark 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
the only real time as far as Buddhism is concerned is right now. Right now there is no old age or death… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
One night, a group of moths gathered on a shelf watching a burning candle. Puzzled by the nature of the light, they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In the absence of a formally agreed, worldwide dictionary definition of 'Quotography' (in 2016), here are my two cents worth: 'Quotography is… — Alex Morritt Copy Share Image
Liberals and leftists are not wrong in describing romanticism as reactionary, because it did indeed become that after 1810. The problem is… — Frederick C. Beiser 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
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
“When she did walk, to the bathroom between the chairs and the customers leaning back in them, oblivious to her manoeuvres, the… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“The waterwheel was twice a man’s height, wider than a man’s two stretched arms. The timbers, braced and bolted with rusty iron… — Joseph Hansen Copy Share Image
Despite the unrivaled empirical success of quantum theory, the very suggestion that it may be literally true as a description of nature… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
How good is Missouri quarterback Chase Daniel anyway? ... to me, Daniel's brilliance has nothing to do with the big numbers he… — Joe Posnanski Copy Share Image
Ankh-Morpork! Pearl of cities! This is not a completely accurate description, of course — it was not round and shiny — but… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The only description for Nolan in the script was that he's a very bad dresser. I put on a red windbreaker and… — Gabriel Mann Copy Share Image
We are looking for a complete, coherent, and simple understanding of reality. Given what we know about the universe, there seems to… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
As you become more conscious of your body as eternity, a sense of ease, a fullness beyond description occurs. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
