“Naming can satisfy a need, it can shorten a conversation that otherwise might go on for hours.” — Nihad Sirees Copy Share Image
Lovecraft gives me the pip as he uses so much description that needs heavily condensing. — Leah Moore Copy Share Image
The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“Rew looked like he had put his face up to the sky in a rainstorm of freckles” — Adina Rishe Gewirtz Copy Share Image
“Salander was an information junkie with a delinquent child's take on morals and ethics.” — Stieg Larsson Copy Share Image
Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand. — Anne Enright 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
I remember my father saying to me once, 'I finally know how to describe you, Charlotte. You're prickly.' And he was right… — Charlotte Rampling Copy Share Image
Jack London is a very generous description of my small hiking, bicycling, and canoeing habit. I myself feel like a weak urbanite… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
It is hard to see how one could begin to develop a quantum-theoretical description of brain action when one might well have… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
Like most Christians, I believe the Genesis account of creation is a description of six different stages of creation, each of which… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
Don't go into great detail describing places and things, unless you're Margaret Atwood and can paint scenes with language. You don't want… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
I wish I were better at straightforward description. I feel like I'm usually overdoing it or underdoing it, and it takes a… — Lauren Grodstein Copy Share Image
Love is something so divine, Description would but make it less; 'Tis what I feel, but can't define, 'Tis what I know… — Beilby Porteus Copy Share Image
To every description of citizens, let praise be given. but let them persevere in their affectionate vigilance over that precious depository of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
But if the two countries or governments are at war, the men of science are not. That would, indeed be a civil… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
I think [John's Adams] descriptions of the personalities of [Benjamin] Franklin and [Tomas] Jefferson and others were pretty accurate. It is only… — Gordon S. Wood 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
It is not a nature cure, a system of faith healing, or a physical culture, or a medical treatment, or a semi-occult… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
You can often give a better description of the fight between people, the essentials of it, by means of fantastic animals, the… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
Life a life of Spiritual Adventure. Much like a wild goose the Spirit of God cannot be tracked or tamed. An element… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
All elongated objects, such as sticks, tree-trunks and umbrellas(the opening of these last being comparable to an erection) may stand for the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Then there was the church and the villagers on the sidewalks, the red geraniums on the graves in the cemetery, Perez fainting… — Albert Camus 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
Everyone wants rather to be pleasing to women and that desire is not altogether, though it is very largely, a manifestation of… — J. Robert Oppenheimer 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
On the other hand, she never looked as -big- as she did at that moment. "What?" Rose demanded, glaring up at him.… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
When the copulative kai ['and'] connects two nouns of the same case, [viz. nouns (either substantive or adjective, or participles), of personal… — Granville Sharp Copy Share Image
Why does philosophy use concepts and why does faith use symbols if both try to express the same ultimate? The answer, of… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Mental patterns do not originate out of inorganic nature. They originate out of society, which originates out of inorganic nature. And, as… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only silence. — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description. — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
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