“When he did appear his eyes were as brown as I remembered, pupils flecked with gold like beach pebbles.” — Amber Dawn Copy Share Image
As for myself, 'total liberal outlook on life and politics' is not an accurate description. — John Harwood Copy Share Image
You are a genius beyond description, so start telling yourself that and become aware of who you really are. — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
Science is the description of phenomena and the formulation of their relations. — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
Words and ideas are a description of reality, silence is a negation of reality. What is the reality itself? — John Daido Loori Copy Share Image
Addiction is not a fact of life but a description about how we are choosing to live. — Paul Pearsall Copy Share Image
The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is. — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
It is often said that reading is a gift, but to my mind that is an insufficient description, for the size of… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“The unseen essential can be described in many ways and comes in many forms, but is always preceded by virtue.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The old, slow, creaking descriptions are a thing of the past; today the rule is brevity - but every word must be… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point… — Edward Witten Copy Share Image
Is rule of thumb in writing game: if story requires many long descriptions of smells so vile that will give reader nausea,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
This is exactly how the World Wide Web works: the HTML files are the pithy description on the paper tape, and your… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“They called him a comical genius and carried his stories carefully home, and they wondered at how the stories spilled out on… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
Photographers tend not to photograph what they can’t see, which is the very reason one should try to attempt it. Otherwise we’re… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
Remember the 'Parable of the Talents' in the New Testament? Christ exhorts us to be the best we can be by developing… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I do not know what might be the most fitting description… I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
The most exciting part of finding out who we are is discovering our own uniqueness, who we are outside the box, beyond… — David Richo Copy Share Image
I missed my entrance in a production of 'Blade to the Heat' at Thick Description in San Francisco. I came into the… — Colman Domingo Copy Share Image
Nobody would know me from my own description of myself; which is why, when called upon (rarely, I grant) to provide an… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
The single most important technique for making progress is to write ten words. Doesn't matter if you're badly stuck, or your day… — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids… — Cressida Cowell Copy Share Image
My stepfather, John O'Hara, was the goodest man there was. He was not a man of many words, but of carefully chosen… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
Schizophrenia --its nature, etiology, and the kind of therapy to use for it--remains one of the most puzzling of the mental illnesses.… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
This word "description" may be disconcerting when used to refer to what is generally called a translation. But when one wishes to… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
