Overt intelligent performances are not clues to the workings of minds; they are those workings. Boswell described Johnson's mind when he described… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
Lately, however, on abandoning the brindled and grey mosquitos and commencing similar work on a new, brown species, of which I have… — Ronald Ross Copy Share Image
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. — John McCain Copy Share Image
When you graduate is when you start to find yourself looking at the information in the audition breakdown and it says tall… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
We turned an anthem into an assignment, a poem into a job description. — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
NEU!'s music will always ("für immer") be a part of me and I absolutely stand to what we've created. Of course I… — Michael Rother Copy Share Image
“She crooned on until her cigarette was gone. The ash in the wind blew around us like hesitant snow.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
I used to be married to a pastor, and I had a church for two years. Pastors are just men, too, with… — Niecy Nash Copy Share Image
To me, feminism is such a simple description: it's equal rights, economic rights, political rights, and social rights. — Callie Khouri Copy Share Image
Line is so versatile - you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or simply put a line around an idea… — Stan Smith Copy Share Image
Laws of nature don't know they are "fixed." That's a human pattern seeking description that comes out of our need to survive.… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
“Through my sudden tears, the train lights smeared like shooting stars. Lying before the rippling blue window, below the slurred lights of… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
I don't think you have to earn your income as an artist to be an artist. But if you are an artist,… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point… — Edward Witten 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
Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
What comes, will go. What is found, will be lost again. But what you are is beyond coming and going and beyond… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Screenplays are not writing. They're a fake form of writing. It's a lot of dialogue and very little atmosphere. Very little description.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Searching for a better description of this rotting sadness, I came upon the concept of acedia. In Christian theology, it’s an antecedent… — Mishka Copy Share Image
Whether sociology can ever become a full-fledged "science" (a description of a class of events predictable on the basis of deductions from… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens, from the richest to the poorest, as it was… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“I hiked up a path and into the woods, thinking about what I should be thinking about and almost having a real… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I wanted to be the conduit for somebody else's experiences, filtered through me, and passed on to other people. Which is the… — Juliet Stevenson Copy Share Image
