#crib

To describe and explain my ideas is to lose them. ↗

— Marino Marini

#explain #ideas #lose #them

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#appear #been #bipolar #describe #ends

The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#ancient greeks #arms #center #circle #described

I am the model middle child. I am patient and I like to take care of everyone. Being called nice is a compliment. It's not a boring way to describe me. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#being #boring #called #care #child

People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he was a cunning and calculating politician; from the cultivation of his image as a hayseed from Illinois, to his ability to keep this country together under dire circumstances. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#ascribe #back #brilliant #calculating #circumstances

Since I was not able wholly to subscribe to any one set of beliefs advanced by any 'guru' I had to fall back on my own, however derivative. ↗

— Anthony Storr

#advanced #any #back #beliefs #derivative

I'm really bad at describing my own life. ↗

— Helmut Lang

#describing #i #life #my own #own

Minimal is the word I'd use to describe how I live and dress, and it's also how I sing. I'm not a big fan of overemoting. ↗

— K. D. Lang

#big #big fan #describe #dress #fan

I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside. ↗

— Steig Larsson

#anything #been #describe #detective #detective stories

George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#contention #described #forthright #george #longer