I used to pile on the detail, which was probably a way of hedging my bets while I was working out my… — James Vance Copy Share Image
How can you run for president if you dont know the job description? — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The writing I have in mind and sometimes indulge in myself is concerned, not with plants, mountains or birds as items of… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing. Abstract art is controlled visual magic based on laws and methodology. Abstraction generally involves… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
This is the deal: we are happy to single out people as superior just as long as they don't accept the description… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
“[My father] had a name for the bottom of the sky--'the hem of heaven.” — Nancy Horan Copy Share Image
“She was a thin, sickly, bony child, like an eft, with fine hair like sunlit smoke.” — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The less serious running of any description which an athlete indulges in before eighteen, the better for his future prospects. — Alfred Shrubb Copy Share Image
“His voice gave out and he made several wavy motions with his hand, indicative of the shape of a woman who would… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The only thing that comes close to defining me correctly is my love.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Muscular dystrophy ... was never seen until Duchenne described it in the 1850s. By 1860, after his original description, many hundreds of… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Bohr’s standpoint, that a space-time description is impossible, I reject a limine. Physics does not consist only of atomic research, science does… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
Jem gave a reasonable description of Boo: Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Obama was willing to compromise and Republicans were not. That's not a biased statement. One of my problems with the limitations of… — Jonathan Alter Copy Share Image
When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
An intentional object is given by a word or a phrase which gives a description under which. — G. E. M. Anscombe 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
“He looked as if he had been beaten to death with a wine bottle, but by doing it with the contents of… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
Trying to capture the physicists' precise mathematical description of the quantum world with our crude words and mental images is like playing… — George Johnson Copy Share Image
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
One reason I avoid the American TV talk show circuit, when I'm over there, is that the tabloids and the gossip mill… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
The online musical universe has become Balkanized, with many sites focusing on minute niches. That works well for reaching very specific demographics,… — Michael Azerrad Copy Share Image
“The sky is grey, with a thin TV-static drizzle that hangs in the air like it's been freeze-framed.” — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
