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
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 First Lady role is really difficult. It has no job description... You have to create it for yourself. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“A strong wind sang sadly as it bent the trees in front of the Hall. A half moon shone through the dark,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Lady Moon rose an' gazed o'er my busted'n'beautsome Valleys with silv'ry'n'sorryin' eyes, an' the dingos mourned for the died uns.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century… — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
The less serious running of any description which an athlete indulges in before eighteen, the better for his future prospects. — Alfred Shrubb Copy Share Image
Does she still love you?" "I don't think so," Magnus said dryly. "She wasn't very pleasant the last time I saw her.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I think 'vegan' is a beautiful word. It is more than just a description for our diet. I see it as a… — Philip Wollen Copy Share Image
Not until Freud's writings became popular did descriptions of infants center on relationships with their mothers. The idea that children have feelings… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
...I don't see myself as a documentary photographer. I am more drawn to the image itself, rather than to the description of… — Beat Streuli Copy Share Image
I had vainly been seeking a description of consciousness within science; instead, what I and others have to look for is a… — Amit Goswami 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
LISP has jokingly been described as "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer." I think that description is a great compliment… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
The things I saw beggar description ... The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty, and bestiality were so overpowering… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“She stood at the edge of a glassy river lined with impossibly tall trees, fanning out their wide emerald leaves among the… — Shannon Messenger Copy Share Image
Overt intelligent performances are not clues to the workings of minds; they are those workings. Boswell described Johnson's mind when he described… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
It is hubris, claim the critics of 'absolutism', to suppose that we could ever even approximate to a true description of how… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
The Da Vinci Code may well be the only novel ever written that begins with the word 'renowned'... I think what enabled… — Geoffrey K. Pullum Copy Share Image
The media is fully fine and hunky-dory with the idea that they may destroy somebody, and they think that's part of the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Do the structures of language and the structures of reality (by which I mean what actually happens) move along parallel lines? Does… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
Wave particle duality is a core feature of our world. Or rather, we should say, it is a core feature of our… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
