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It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used… — Immanuel Velikovsky
You see, it's really quite simple. A simile is just a mode of comparison employing 'as' and 'like' to reveal the hidden character or essence… — Norton Juster
A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and… — Carrie P Snow
I feel as though I am trying to describe a three-dimensional experience while living in a two-dimension world. The appropriate words, descriptions, and concepts don't… — Mary C. Neal
Studying the universe engages us in something bigger than ourselves. Science tries to describe, in terms we can only grasp intuitively, things that are beyond… — Guy Consolmagno
Every team has kind of a style or adjectives people use to describe the game that the team plays. — Rachel Martin
I do think you have sort of a general philosophical approach that you want from a justice, and I think a strict constructionist would be… — Rudy Giuliani
I wouldn't describe myself as a do-gooder. That's really more my wife. I'm kind of just the obsessed guy who's been writing and making movies… — M. Night Shyamalan
In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand. The… — William Faulkner
Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,… — William Cowper
I'm a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a humorous way for me to describe that I'm not stereotypical. — Joel Salatin
Some people are aware of another sort of thinking which... leads to those simple ideas that are obvious only after they have been thought of...… — Edward de Bono
Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking measurements that describe something ? reality ? that may not be understood at… — Michael Crichton
I think no more than a week after I started writing I ran into the first block. It's hard to describe it in a way… — Tennessee Williams
Courses that you've had success on, all of a sudden your game turns around because you feel comfortable on your tee shots, you feel comfortable… — Tiger Woods
It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as… — Ludwig von Mises
There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events beyond the range… — Ludwig von Mises
Men love women because they are the loveliest things on God's earth. Women love men because chocolate can't mow the lawn. Some men prefer to… — Guy Browning
I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever. — Jeffrey Eugenides
I love bossy women. Some people hate the word, and I understand how "bossy" can seem like a shitty way to describe a woman with… — Amy Poehler
When we describe a process, or make out an invoice, or photograph a tree, we create models; without them we would know nothing of reality… — Gerhard Richter
I describe in 'Chimpanzee Politics' how the alpha male needs broad support to reach the top spot. He needs some close allies and he needs… — Frans de Waal
A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe. — Yann Martel
From all that I have seen, I am more than ever convinced that art must communicate, and it must represent, describe and express people, their… — Raphael Soyer

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