The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera. — John Marshall Copy Share Image
Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
“She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent.” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Temptation is impossible for me to resist Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description. — Tom Sizemore Copy Share Image
Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world. — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Night was fading over the fields as if the rain had washed the darkness out of the hem of its garment.” — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
She had her own way of doing all that she did, and this is the simplest description of a character which, although… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“The sky was always full of birdsong and evening smells, piano music from a window, the stone buildings glowing against the blue,… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Eloquence is painted thought, and thus those who, after having painted it, add somewhat more, make a picture, not a portrait.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“The duchess turned on Eugène with one of those insolent stares that envelop a man from head to foot, flatten him out,… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
Diversity, or the state of being different, isn't the same as inclusion. One is a description of what is, while the other… — Bill Crawford Copy Share Image
I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music,… — Chico Hamilton Copy Share Image
My description of fun would be to sit on someone's couch and watch TV. Regular cable TV. When I'm in a hotel,… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Even in the lives of fishes, sensation is seldom a matter of one thing or another. Senses overlap. The lines between them… — Lyall Watson Copy Share Image
The cookbook gives a detailed description of ingredients and procedures but no proofs for its prescriptions or reasons for its recipes; the… — George Polya Copy Share Image
“Sidney: The woman took a seat to reorganize, and Lucy cataloged an almost perfectly symmetrical face with cheekbones that could part hair.… — Ann Garvin Copy Share Image
No. I had successfully solved the difficulty of finding a description of the electron which was consistent with both relativity and quantum… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
The world doesn't yield to us directly, the description of the world stands in between. So, properly speaking, we are always one… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
After many unhappy experiments in the direction of an ideal Republic, it was found that what may be described as a Despotism… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Those implications are tremendous beyond description. My experience showed me that the death of the body and the brain are not the… — Eben Alexander Copy Share Image
It is immature and lazy to imagine we know everything there is to know about someone before we know that someone. We… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
What is mathematics? Ask this question of person chosen at random, and you are likely to receive the answer "Mathematics is the… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
Descriptive geometry has two objects: the first is to establish methods to represent on drawing paper which has only two dimensions,-namely, length… — Gaspard Monge Copy Share Image
Look, words are like the air: they belong to everybody. Words are not the problem; it's the tone, the context, where those… — Juan Gelman Copy Share Image
“Out from the servient shoulders of some smooth-tongued Waiter it stares, into the scared dilating pupils of the White Satin Bride with… — Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Copy Share Image
“My mother likes odd numbers and is suspicious of the even ones. She reads a new book every week and is bewitched… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
Architecture, either practically considered or viewed as an art of taste, is a subject so important and comprehensive in itself, that volumes… — Andrew Jackson Downing Copy Share Image
“But ever since the dawn of civilization, people have not been content to see events as unconnected and inexplicable. They have craved… — Stephen Hawking 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
For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
The artist's morality lies in the force and truth of his description. — Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
“The house was silent, but somewhere in the garden was a swimming pool filled with unsettled water.” — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
