#scribe

That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world. ↗

— Robyn Davidson

#describe #folks #foreign #go #home

The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable. ↗

— Thomas Day

#every #every heart #fact #general #heart

I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#certainly #everything #i #idea #interesting

In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the characters and what they are thinking. It's a much more in-depth process. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#clothes #describe #hand #in-depth #more

What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#had #haunted #i #me #midnight

I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#describe #exactly #homes #i #live

I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#doctrine #government #i #i believe #i believe that

Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#describe #feels #her #indignation #proud

Ever since I became a Muslim, I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#became #cast #causes #character #connect

A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#any #describe #described #hardly #only