“The tumultuous noise resolved itself now into the disorderly mingling of many voices, the gride of many wheels, the creaking of wagons,… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I do not know what might be the most fitting description.... I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“You can be so much in a room that the world outside turns to water. You've got the heater blowing out burnt… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
The things I saw beggar description ... The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty, and bestiality were so overpowering… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“His voice was a deep and quiet rumble. It made me think of a freshly tuned tractor engine.. He didn't sound illiterate,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific… — Hugo Gernsback Copy Share Image
... I still wish to contend that some metaphors enable us to see aspects of reality that the metaphor's production helps to… — Max Black Copy Share Image
I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor. — John McGahern Copy Share Image
I regret very much that I have painted a picture that requires any description. — Winslow Homer Copy Share Image
“Cambridge by moonlight was light blue and brownish black. There was no mist here and a great vault of clear stars hung… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
You couldn't find nobody deader, not if you'd sarched for a week. Why, door nails, and Julius Caesar, and things o' that… — Laura E. Richards Copy Share Image
I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of pornography),… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
Because I was permanently confused, dissatisfied, unhappy, tormented by inadequacy, driven by wanting towards every kind of impossible future, the attitude of… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“The city was asleep, and the bookshop felt like a boat adrift in a sea of silence and shadows.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
It takes talent to please the people in a sermon by a flowery style, a cheerful ethic, brilliant sallies and lively descriptions;… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
There was something special about watching a manager and umpire both convinced they were totally right, but knowing that one had to… — Doug Harvey Copy Share Image
Description needs to slide into a story like a snake through grass - silently, almost invisibly, without calling attention to itself. It… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“This morning, light lapped the water as if God had spilt a goblet of molten gold upon a ground of darkest velvet.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
The rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
What I learned was that we Millennials possess one factor that supposedly sets us apart from those who came before us. Is… — Paul Downs Colaizzo Copy Share Image
For generations, field guides to plants and animals have sharpened the pleasure of seeing by opening our minds to understanding. Now John… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
I have no decision-making role at all in my job description. I would have liked an explanation as to why I was… — Mookie Wilson Copy Share Image
