“His [Lord Peter's] long, amiable face looked as if it had generated spontaneously from his top hat, as white maggots breed from… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
By creating useful job descriptions and making clear what qualifications should be expected, the Department aims to help improve schools' ability to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I will begin with what in my opinion is your lack of restraint. You are like a spectator in a theatre who… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“If only the herdsman had not brought him up with the flocks, not reared him, Paris, Alexander, to watch his flock by… — Euripides Copy Share Image
If you look at any religious description of hell, it is the same as human society, the way we dream. Hell is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I see people talking on the internet about me or my work it's almost always more a description of themselves and… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Many of us knuckle-dragging brush-painters think that 'behind the times' is part of our job description. Why deny ourselves the authentic journey… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
“Sidney: The woman took a seat to reorganize, and Lucy cataloged an almost perfectly symmetrical face with cheekbones that could part hair.… — Ann Garvin Copy Share Image
In my most extreme fluctuations I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God ...… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Of all the many memoirs by former Soviet officials, Palazchenko's is among the best written and also the most objective. Even his… — Jack F. Matlock, Jr Copy Share Image
The media is fully fine and hunky-dory with the idea that they may destroy somebody, and they think that's part of the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Alan Turing gave us a mathematical model of digital computing that has completely withstood the test of time. He gave us a… — George Dyson Copy Share Image
Now Europe are experiencing a wave of eroding solidarity, first of certain societies and then entire governments. At the same time, we… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
There is no description, no image in any book that is capable of replacing the sight of real trees, and all of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
What makes screenplays difficult are the things that require the most discipline and care and are just not seen by most people.… — Robert Towne Copy Share Image
“He is even more horrifically beautiful than I was able to recall. They're all beautiful, unless they're hideous. That's the nature of… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I think the word 'social entrepreneur' is a really good description of what I am. What that means me to is that… — Blake Mycoskie Copy Share Image
It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
All descriptions of matter are descriptions of modes of human perception within consciousness. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
War is awful. Nothing, not the valor with which it is fought nor the nobility of the cause it serves, can glorify… — John McCain Copy Share Image
“He was too many things at once - a boy, a man, and everything in between - and the differing parts of… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
The advantage of writing from experience is that it often provides you with details that you would never think of yourself, no… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
“To write, for example, a crime that is horrible but which somehow 'resembles' the butterfly, which would be light and fine like… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
