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I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall. - Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe. - Karl Pearson Quotes
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world. - John Locke Quotes
I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes
I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor. - John Mcgahern Quotes
A more relevant description would be a plateau in production capacity that might be reached in the fourth or fifth decade of this century. - Daniel Yergin Quotes
The dwarfed trees of the Chinese and Japanese have been noticed by every author who has written upon these countries, and all have attempted to give some description of the method by which the effect is produced. - Robert Fortune Quotes
I think Morses thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him. - John Thaw Quotes
Our situation here, without any exaggeration, is beyond description almost; it is such as eye has not seen nor ear heard, nor hath it ever entered into the heart of men to conceive Boston ever to arrive at. - Peter Oliver Quotes
What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer. - Hugo Gernsback Quotes
Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another. - Gregory Bateson Quotes
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else. - John Locke Quotes
All I can really say is its bloodier than hell. In this one Im going to be much more direct and honest in my description of the actual killings and the crime scene. - Christopher Darden Quotes
The tests which showed that this was the only rifle which had the markings which were shown on the bullets; the fact that a man was seen by several witnesses, not identified, but seen in the window with the general description of what he looked like. - John Sherman Cooper Quotes
Somebody was telling me about the French Army rifle that was being advertised on eBay the other day - the description was, Never shot. Dropped once. - Roy Blunt Quotes
String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string. - Edward Witten Quotes
For better or worse, Ive been involved in the description of political conflict. - John Le Carre Quotes
The description was that the Borg ship was not in chambers like our ship, it didnt have a bridge, the Borg are very powerful, they are part organic, and part mechanical. - Richard D James Quotes
What idea can be formed from the description of these people or what credit can be given to their stories. I leave you to judge. - Nathaniel Smith Quotes
Whenever I fill out the job description I put songwriter, never singer or artist. Singers come and go. - Brian Mcknight Quotes
We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings. - Ben Okri Quotes
Happiness just wasnt part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasnt part of the equation. Survival was. - Robin Green Quotes
To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture. - Oscar Wilde Quotes
The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena. - Erwin Schrodinger Quotes
I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I dont mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy. - Gary Cooper Quotes
Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be. - Benjamin Tucker Quotes
My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City. - Philip Morrison Quotes
If I dont have a project going, I sit down and begin to write something - a character sketch, a monologue, a description of some sight, or even just a list of ideas. - Thomas Perry Quotes
The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title. - Gene Tierney Quotes
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