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'Civilians' is a term I love. It's what Elizabeth Hurley used to describe people who weren't on TV. — Alan Carr
What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself embodies… — Robert Nozick
What do I think happens when we die? I think we enter into another stage of existence or another state of consciousness that is so… — Raymond Moody
If I describe a sunny morning in May (the buds, the wet-winged flies, the warm sun and cool breeze), I am also implying the perishing… — Clark Blaise
So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and… — Tracy K. Smith
Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring - that delicious commingling of the perfume of arbutus, the odor of pines, and… — Neltje Blanchan
John von Neumann draws attention to what seemed to him a contrast. He remarked that for simple mechanisms, it is often easier to describe how… — Edsger Dijkstra
In the terrible years of the Yezhov terror I spent seventeen months waiting in line outside the prison in Leningrad. One day somebody in the… — Anna Akhmatova
If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other… — Jonathan Swift
I don't want to describe the hate mail we've gotten. On why she was fearful of her husband running for president. — Alma Powell
Emotions, in my experience aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." I'd like to have at my disposal complicated… — Jeffrey Eugenides
In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being; he is not one person so much as two persons trying to act… — Laurens van der Post
In Hiroshima, thirty days after the first atomic bomb destroyed the city and shook the world, people are still dying, mysteriously and horribly-people who were… — Wilfred Burchett
In my experience ideology is a lot like religion; it's a belief system and most people cling to it long after it becomes clear that… — Unknown Author
I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How… — John Hurt
Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man. — Oliver Goldsmith
A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with… — Alan Perlis
This word "description" may be disconcerting when used to refer to what is generally called a translation. But when one wishes to render a verbal… — Gaston Bachelard
I don't know if there are words to describe my motivation. — Lorrie Fair
Infinity is a way to describe the incomprehensible to the human mind. In a way it notates a mystery. That kind of mystery exists in… — Simon McBurney

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