Even in the midst of love-making, writers are working on the description. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“She was a thin, sickly, bony child, like an eft, with fine hair like sunlit smoke.” — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Recipes are just descriptions of one person’s take on one moment in time. They’re not rules. — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Build a shield between yourself and the descriptions of the world that everyone else has. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At boarding schools of every description, the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief; and of the senior, vice. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
What appear to us to be causal explanations are in fact just stories—descriptions of what happened that tell us little, if anything,… — Duncan J. Watts Copy Share Image
“Callahan dried his big meaty hands on his apron and cleared his throat with a sound like a bulldozer in pain.” — Spider Robinson 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
I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every… — Twyla Tharp 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
I still lack a political, religious and philosophical world view - I change it every month - and so I'll have to… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The spirit of tanka interests me more than following rigid conventions. As I understand it, the tradition allows a variety of approaches,… — Harryette Mullen Copy Share Image
Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash--for precedent is the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“The king who stepped into the ballroom wearing a green velvet robe and bejeweled crown was none other that the tiger-man who'd… — Kat Falls Copy Share Image
Leaving out appraisal also would render the biological description of the phenomena of emotion vulnerable to the caricature that emotions without an… — Antonio Damasio 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
You surely can't be trying to blame us for Erak's habit of charging ashore waving an axe and grabbing everything that isn't… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
...monetary exchanges have interesting things in common; Gresham's law, if true, says what one of these interesting things is. But what is… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
Good description is a learned skill, one of the prime reasons why you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write… — Stephen King 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
It’s a gift to joyfully recognize and accept our own smallness and ordinariness. Then you are free with nothing to live up… — Richard Rohr 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
Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
One night, a group of moths gathered on a shelf watching a burning candle. Puzzled by the nature of the light, they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description… — George R. R. Martin 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
No religion I ever encountered made any sense. None are consistent. Most gods are megalomaniacs and paranoid psychotics by their worshippers' description.… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
In a universe that defies description, all systems of belief can only be false. — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
I have never supported white supremacism but I read this [this description of me] in the papers. — David Duke Copy Share Image
Alex! he may not fit out job description but I think I have found our pedo — Tamika-leeigh Copy Share Image
I can't please everyone. That's not in my J.D., you know, not in my job description. — Maria Sharapova Copy Share Image
Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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