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«The judge also has a truth he wants to hide: He often hasn't been completely candid in describing the facts or the law.»
«Describing the Internet as the Network of Networks is like calling the Space Shuttle, a thing that flies.»
Author: John Lester
| About:
Internet
| Keywords:
calling, describing, flies, internet, network, networks, shuttle, space shuttle, The Internet, The Network
«I paint paintings because I can't get the experience in any other way but there are many more experiences that are equally satisfying to me and equally inept at answering all my questions, but hover in exactitude in describing themselves and defying me to define their logic.»
Author: Julian Schnabel
| About:
Art
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All My, answering, defied, define, defying, describing, equally, exactitude, experiences, hover, hovered, hovers, inept, paint, paintings, satisfying
«When you are describing A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things With a sort of mental squint»
Author: Lewis Carroll
(Logician, Mathematician, Novelist, Photographer)
| Keywords:
describing, hint, hinted, hinting, hints, mental, plainly, shape, sort, sort of, sound, squint, squinting, squints, the matter, tint, tinted, tints
«Christianity simply does not make sense until you have faced the sort of facts I have been describing. Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
As Far, Christianity, describing, faced, facts, Feel the Need, forgiveness, make sense, promises, repent, repenting, repents, sort, sort of, tells, therefore
«The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
afflictions, describing, felicities, ghost, Holy Ghost, labored, Solomon
«The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Books,
Mystery,
Nature,
Words
| Keywords:
arbitrariness, charm, describing, enchantment, fairy, spell, terms
«It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
actual, appraise, appraising, describing, originality, recognized, universally
«Love can sweep you off your feet and carry you along in a way you've never known before. But the ride always ends, and you end up feeling lonely and bitter. Wait. It's not love I'm describing. I'm thinking of a monorail.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
bitter end, carry, carry off, describing, end up, in a way, lonely, monorail, ride, sweep, sweep over, sweep through, sweep up, The Ride
«Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.»
Author: Pablo Picasso
(Artist, Painter)
| Keywords:
author, Book One, brushed, brushes, brushing, brush up, colored person, coloring book, colors, derives, deriving, describing, feels, landscape, paint, painting, preferred, reading, The Author, The Pleasure
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