One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The sorcerer's description of the world is perceivable. But our insistence on holding on to our standard version of reality renders us… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
If you are deaf, you need captions for spoken elements. If you are blind, you need voiced descriptions of Web contents and… — Vinton Cerf Copy Share Image
Many there are who, not comprehending, not being affected with, that divine, spiritual description of the person of Christ which is given… — John Owen Copy Share Image
I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described. — Anthony Trollope 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
These truths may seem simple and self-apparent and the words easy to say, but the states of mind that you live in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The British are proud of their ability to create a muddle and then muddle through all difficulties. I must shake the British… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
[M]ilitary metaphors have more and more come to infuse all aspects of the description of the medical situation. Disease is seen as… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“No one needed to say it, but the room overflowed with that sort of blessing. The combination of loss and abundance. The… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
There's an adage that is an apt description of the new dynamic at work between brands and consumers connected through social media:… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
“When he lifted his head, the sun seemed impossibly close. Science-fictionally close.” — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“Night would settle in like slow blindness, sucking the color from the trees and the low sky and the rocks and the… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
I'd like to find someone to procreate with - as sexy as that sounds. If you're out and about and fit the… — Chloe Sevigny Copy Share Image
The total number of people that do a job that has the same description as mine in the entire world is fewer… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Love scenes, if genuine, are indescribable; for to those who have enacted them the most elaborate description seems tame, and to those… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
There was a time when "sound as a dollar" was a description, not a joke. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If the resurrection of Jesus cannot be believed except by assenting to the fantastic descriptions included in the Gospels, then Christianity is… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“There is little more I can add short of dissecting the man, or going into intimate details such as the modest proportions… — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
My picture of the world is drawn in perspective and not like a model to scale. The foreground is occupied by human… — Frank P. Ramsey Copy Share Image
[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
As anthropomorphic and surreal people have said my early writing was, to me it was really stock and almost banal in the… — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
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