Brilliant Description Quotes

#1. My future was mapped in negatives. Next year, I could be anywhere but here.

Barbara Kingsolver

#2. When I was in London at NBC, I was the lowest man on the totem pole. I would go to diplomatic receptions to meet people.

Leslie Cockburn

#3. The inhibitor of creativity isn't potential it's fear. We worry about saying the wrong thing or looking foolish so we govern our imagination.

Josh Linkner

#4. You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#5. A sonnet might look dinky, but it was somehow big enough to accommodate love, war, death, and O.J. Simpson. You could fit the whole world in there if you shoved hard enough.

Anne Fadiman

#6. By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry.

Max Beerbohm

#7. But a tedious way to a grievous end(745);

Richard Baxter

#8. We can now what better is without knowing what good is.

Steve De Shazer

#9. A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism.

G. Willow Wilson

#10. I luxuriate more in a whole day alone; a day of easy natural poses; slipping tranquilly off into the deep water of my own thoughts, navigating the underworld.

Virginia Woolf

#11. Composers are in some ways the last frontier of musician that gets a paycheck for their musical services.

Cliff Martinez

#12. How to play music may be known. At the commencement of the piece, all the parts should sound together. As it proceeds, they should be in harmony while severally distinct and flowing without break, and thus on to the conclusion.

Confucius

#13. Very few are aware of the highest. Then comes that which they know and love,

Lao-Tzu

#14. Our history is responsible for the differences in the South African way of life.

P. W. Botha

#15. ...the predominant odors of sauerkraut and schnitzel that had always made me feel a part of my mother's life, the part before she met my father and the brackets of disappointment that marked each side of her mouth had become permanent.

Beatriz Williams

#16. Vati, Vati, I miss you so. She didn't say it aloud, but her throat vibrated with the words.

Beatriz Williams