“At the edge of the still, dark pool that was the sea, at the brimming edge of freedom where no boat was… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“He smelled a little strange, sweet and bitter at the same time, the way madness might have smelled if it could've taken… — Jaida Jones Copy Share Image
“Tirza, his youngest daughter, the one who turned out best. Turned out wonderfully, both inside and out.” — Arnon Grunberg Copy Share Image
“She grew up in the ordinary paradise of the English countryside. When she was five she walked to school, two miles, across… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
A lot of people they don’t know that Africans even named the stars, that different peoples, different so-called native peoples, have their… — Gayl Jones Copy Share Image
Men are suppressing woman politically, philosophically, socially, through denying them education, equal rights, equal employment, and just by setting up a description… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
That's what I'm trying to get over: the idea that anarchism offers a description of equitable relations that go way back rather… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
As a militant troublemaker, I once wrote that it was the duty of every woman worthy of the description to upset men… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Through Heaven's Gate and Back speaks to all of us that have been abused as children. Lee Thornton's descriptions of the aftereffects… — Charles L. Whitfield Copy Share Image
The First Lady role is really difficult. It has no job description... You have to create it for yourself. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“Those eyes had seen people weep, and had cared, and had hurt them again anyway. It’s a look that no human eyes… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
Scatterbrain is one of those harmless little words you use a million times... Then it turns up in a crime scene description. — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
“Even the beauty of the landscape was an abstraction, like the beauty of a man in an advertisement for a cologne you… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“Tricky was a plain-faced man with a very handsome voice - a voice like the sound of a clarinet, at once liquid… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
"Sinner" is a present-tense description of everyone, including those who have put their faith in Christ. Of course, those who have called… — Edward T Welch Copy Share Image
Cut your manuscript ruthlessly but never throw anything away: it's amazing how often a discarded scene or description, which wouldn't fit in… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
A famous, very often quoted phrase says: "That government is best, which governs least." I do not believe this to be a… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Even in the midst of love-making, writers are working on the description. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
One of the more pretentious political self-descriptions is 'Libertarian.' People think it puts them above the fray. It sounds fashionable, and to… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
When I illustrate a cover or a book, I draw upon what the author tells me; that's how I see my responsibility… — Mary GrandPre Copy Share Image
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