“The color scheme of the whole sanatorium seemed to be based on liver. Dark, glowering woodwork, burnt-brown leather chairs, walls that might… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Few novels truly deserve the description 'rollicking' in the way Mary Novik's Conceit does. A hearty, boiling stew of a novel, served… — Gail Anderson-Dargatz Copy Share Image
Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing. — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us - an energy which, if not thus distorted, would have blossomed… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I feel my fuller-bodied characters are all in the independent films I do, and in the studio productions, I have to work… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
Ridicule, the weapon of all others most feared by enthusiasts of every description, and which from its predominance over such minds, often… — Walter Scott 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
“The thought washed over me like water on a flower shop window, like a soothing, cool lotion after you've showered and spent… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a Happy state in this World: he that… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“If, however, the poetic end might have been as well or better attained without sacrifice of technical correctness in such matters, the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Kripke says that physicalists like me can't explain the 'apparent contingency' of mind-brain identities. He maintains that, if I really believed that… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
“To demonstrate is to show clearly & deliberately, and to describe is to give a detailed account in words. That thing called… — Olaotan Fawehinmi Copy Share Image
When I was a film critic, the reason I kind of found it disenchanting was because the things that I wanted to… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings. — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Faith is the physical description of God. That's what He is. It's the only word we have in our language to accurately… — Jim Rowe Copy Share Image
It is impossible to describe a landscape so validly as to exclude all other descriptions, for no one can see the landscape… — Frithjof Schuon Copy Share Image
Whereas most other modern composers are engaged in manufacturing cocktails of every hue and description, I offer the public cold spring water. — Jean Sibelius Copy Share Image
“It was a chilly morning after the night's rain, and the sun hung in the sky like a pale coin lost by… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
One measure of the greatness of a work is that the characters who play roles in the narrative feel its essential truth.… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
Generalizations about the "way women are" and estimates of what is appropriate for most women no longer justify denying opportunity to women… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Here's the problem: the description of the world is always reduced to yes or no, black or white. Superficial stories. Superhero stories.… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I wish I could tell you about the South Pacific. The way it actually was. The endless ocean. The infinite specks of… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
