Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us. Gloria Steinem American Activist More Gloria Steinem Quotes 1
Even the end of the world is described as if it were only an exceptionally hot afternoon. Peter Mullen More Peter Mullen Quotes 1
Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, "A house guest," you're wrong because I have just described my kids. Erma Bombeck American Journalist More Erma Bombeck Quotes 1
The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain... and that's very difficult to play, or even indicate. Jeremy Brett British Actor More Jeremy Brett Quotes 0
The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the actual achievement of the American nation points towards an adequate and fruitful definition of the democratic ideal. Herbert Croly American Author More Herbert Croly Quotes 0
I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic. George Crumb American Composer More George Crumb Quotes 0
It was described as Sex and the Suburbs. It's so not that. Because on Sex and the City, those women told each other everything; on our show, it's much more like the real suburbs - nobody tells anybody anything. Everything's a secret. James Denton American Actor More James Denton Quotes 0
A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it. Frederick Douglass American Author More Frederick Douglass Quotes 0
As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful,' one of those people who can say, 'Well, look, something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up. Tom Hanks Actor More Tom Hanks Quotes 0
There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny. Lafcadio Hearn Japanese Author More Lafcadio Hearn Quotes 0
Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done. Arlie Hochschild More Arlie Hochschild Quotes 0
A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on. Anthony Holden British Journalist More Anthony Holden Quotes 0
In Modernism, reality used to validate media. In Postmodernism, the media validate reality. If you don't believe this, just think how many times you've described some real event as being 'just like a movie.' Brad Holland More Brad Holland Quotes 0
The possibility of saying anything about a thing rests on the assumption that it preserves its identity, or continues to be the same thing in the respect described, that it will behave in future situations as it has in past. Frank Knight American Economist More Frank Knight Quotes 0
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. Arthur Koestler Hungarian Novelist More Arthur Koestler Quotes 0
As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two simultaneous but quite separate phenomena of adaptation and diversification. Ernst Mayr German Scientist More Ernst Mayr Quotes 0
Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married. Ed McMahon American Entertainer More Ed McMahon Quotes 0
Most of the time when I receive a script, it says something like 'Rosenberg is the fat, slovenly Mayor, who doesn't want the kids to use the skateboard park', or 'Stein is a pompous, rotund attorney, imposing to all.' It would be so freeing to get a script where my character is simply described as 'A Man'. Fred Melamed American Actor More Fred Melamed Quotes 0
What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'. Joan Miro Spanish Artist More Joan Miro Quotes 0
I don't like people to feel completely described by the clothes they wear of mine. I want them to feel that they're describing themselves. Isaac Mizrahi American Designer More Isaac Mizrahi Quotes 0
Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago. Ashley Montagu English Scientist More Ashley Montagu Quotes 0
Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring. Manfred von Richthofen German Aviator More Manfred von Richthofen Quotes 0
I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin. Manfred von Richthofen German Aviator More Manfred von Richthofen Quotes 0
But in this Second Work if thou extract our Air and our Fire with the phlegm water, they will the more naturally and easily be drawn out of their infernal prison, and with less losse of their Spirits, than by the former way before described. George Ripley American Activist More George Ripley Quotes 0
My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective. Tim Robbins Actor More Tim Robbins Quotes 0