Quotes:I'm always de
scribed as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger,' and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.
View quotes by Ben AffleckThe House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to sub
scribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.
View quotes by Tom StoppardIn language, the ignorant have pre
scribed laws to the learned. (Maxims, 1830)
View quotes by Richard DuppaSome people are aware of another sort of thinking which... leads to those simple ideas that are obvious only after they have been thought of... the term 'lateral thinking' has been coined to de
scribe this orther sort of thinking; 'vertical thinking' is used to denote the conventional logical process. (The Use of Lateral Thinking 1967)
View quotes by Edward De BonoGive me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free (Verse in
scribed on Statue of Liberty)
View quotes by Emma LazarusTo make judgements about great and lofty things, a soul of the same stature is needed; otherwise we a
scribe to them that vice which is our own.
View quotes by MontaigneLike an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to de
scribe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.
View quotes by Martin Luther King JrIn comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have tran
scribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
View quotes by Pliny The ElderI will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not de
scribe holding public office.
View quotes by Dean AchesonCulture is properly de
scribed as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
View quotes by Matthew ArnoldMy drawings have been de
scribed as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point.
View quotes by James ThurberThe evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily - and perhaps most tellingly - de
scribed in terms of the genesis of the modern Lounge Suit.
View quotes by J A SchumpeterA man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he de
scribes anothers.
View quotes by Jean Paul RichterIn a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society in
scribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
View quotes by Karl MarxDesigns in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be de
scribed, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
View quotes by W B YeatsTrue philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and de
scribes what is.
View quotes by Victor CousinHeroin on any basis is a worse drug, a more dangerous drug than cannabis, but heroin in its pharmaceutical preparation, diamorphine, is available on prescription for people in pain and it's very widely pre
scribed.
So the law does not say that, because a drug is classed as illegal it therefore should not be available on prescription. What it does say, however, is that before drugs are available on prescription they've got to be properly tested and reearched. Not that that's happened to a lot of opiates, heroin and cocain derivatives.
So far the medical researchers have not been able to prove, indeed very few have tried, that there are real beneficial medicinal effects from cannabis.
View quotes by Jack StrawHow do I de
scribe myself? I'd have to say that I'm an easy-going and funny person. I like everyone I meet. I tend to be a romantic and an idealist, though, and sometimes it's frustrating because it's a vision that's almost impossible to live up to in real life
View quotes by Natassia MaltheWhen you cross the line, it is such a wonderful feeling it's hard to de
scribe. [On winning gold in the Olympics]
View quotes by Kelly HolmesMy favorite review de
scribed me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig.
View quotes by Steve BuscemiHomer and Hesiod have a
scribed to the gods all things that are a shame and a disgrace among mortals, stealing and adulteries and deceiving on one another.
View quotes by XenophanesAll cruel people de
scribe themselves as paragons of frankness.
View quotes by Tennessee WilliamsAdvertising may be de
scribed as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
View quotes by Stephen Butler LeacockJournalism could be de
scribed as turning one's enemies into money.
View quotes by Craig BrownChess can be de
scribed as the movement of pieces eating one another.
View quotes by Marcel DuchampLife is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you a
scribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
View quotes by Joseph CampbellWe went from one million to 20 million sub
scribers in the past five years. That's great, but a billion people watch CNN.
View quotes by Steve CaseDon't mourn for me now, don't mourn for me never - I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever [what he would like to have in
scribed on his tombstone]
View quotes by Dave AllenCreative activity could be de
scribed as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
View quotes by Arthur KoestlerCreativity in science could be de
scribed as the act of putting two and two together to make five
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