Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“The city was asleep, and the bookshop felt like a boat adrift in a sea of silence and shadows.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
I don't like the word 'businesswoman.' Perhaps 'committed mother' would be the best description. — Steffi Graf Copy Share Image
Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It would never occur to me not to look dreadful if that's the job description. — Lesley Manville Copy Share Image
Christianity also stands in opposition to intellectual, as well as physical, health. To doubt becomes sin. 'Faith means not wanting to know… — Robert Sheaffer Copy Share Image
Keep any description of trouble or sickness or error minimal, for there is something inside which is listening, and it says, 'Oh!… — Ervin Seale Copy Share Image
A random sequence is one that cannot be algorithmically compressed : the shortest description of a random sequence is simply the sequence itself. — Gregory Chaitin Copy Share Image
“In the park, the bright colors of the children's clothing, the timbre of their young voices, lowered and darkened.” — Cherise Wolas Copy Share Image
In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
“The young man who stood there was the handsomest mad Rand had ever seen, almost too handsome for masculinity.” — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls,… — Sergei Eisenstein Copy Share Image
All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country… — Mahatma Gandhi 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
Imagine a man who doesn't believe in anything, hope for anything, doesn't love anyone. This is a description of a dead or… — Simon Soloveychik Copy Share Image
Our normal expectations about reality are created by a social consensus. We are taught how to see and understand the world. The… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Man tends to think that he is a creator, that he is like God. This is especially true of intellectuals, and in… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Man torturing man is a fiend beyond description. You turn a corner in the dark and there he is. You congeal into… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Indeed, the very first acknowledgment (as far as I am aware) of the attraction of mutilated bodies occurs in a founding description… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Emo is pathetic. It's a tired attempt at making bad music cool, all while rocking dumb haircuts and unisexual belts. Furthermore, adding… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
One of the most important things about the geology on the moon is your descriptions of what you see, comparing them to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The King saw them with no common satisfaction, expressing his desire in no particular to have yt Stellar fish engraven and printed.… — Henry Oldenburg Copy Share Image
While the scientist, on the one hand, is concerned with giving a faithful description of facts, on the other, he has the… — Marie Taylor Collins Swabey Copy Share Image
“The full moon, well risen in a cloudless eastern sky, covered the high solitude with its light. We are not conscious of… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
“Little gusts of sunshine blew, strangely bright, and lit up the celandines at the wood's edge, under the hazel-rods, they spangled out… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. Love, and don't be caught in… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
People are said to believe in God, or to disbelieve in Adam and Eve. But in such cases what is believed or… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“In describing a protein it is now common to distinguish the primary, secondary and tertiary structures. The primary structure is simply the… — John Kendrew Copy Share Image
“Time, I think, is like walking backward away from something: say, from a kiss. First there is the kiss; then you step… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
“He's the navigator, he could probably find you a route to Hawaii underwater.” — Jocelyn White Copy Share Image
The saddest summary of life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. ~ — Louis E. Boone Copy Share Image
“The sky is grey, with a thin TV-static drizzle that hangs in the air like it's been freeze-framed.” — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
. . . a dirty exterior is a great enemy to beauty of all descriptions. — Mary Martha Sherwood Copy Share Image
That's what alcoholics do. It's in their job description: fall apart and then keep falling apart. — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
Gradually, you were given a description of the world, a way of seeing, which is largely sexual. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Whatever my job description consists of, becomes my job. Maybe it's just the way I tackle work, in general. — Zoe Bell Copy Share Image