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I have trouble describing my own style, since it's sort of like describing my own eye color or something.

~Aimee Bender

Topics: Color Describing Eye Like My Own Own Since Something Sort Style Trouble

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Our best theory of describing space at a fundamental level is probably string theory.

~Alan Guth

Topics: Best Describing Fundamental Level Our Space String String Theory Theory

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I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin and then in the act of confession I beg for your forgiveness and redemption.

~Aleksandar Hemon

Topics: Act Beg Cannot Confession Describing Forgiveness Game Here Now Path Redemption Sin Sins Stand Then Whole Your

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In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.

~Aleksandar Hemon

Topics: Between Describing Distinction Fiction Literature Nonfiction Word

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I always explain through images and characters what fashion means, and describing scent is almost the same. It can be very powerful. It can really change the perspective a person has of you.

~Alessandro Michele

Topics: Almost Always Change Characters Describing Explain Fashion Images Means Person Perspective Powerful Really Same Scent Through Very You

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Many people have told me that my books read like novels. Perhaps this is because, when I write, I feel I am really there, so strong is my feeling for my subject. On occasion, I have been so moved by the events I have been describing that I have felt like crying.

~Alison Weir

Topics: Am Because Been Books Crying Describing Events Feel Feeling Felt Like Many Me Moved Novels Occasion People Perhaps Read Really Strong Subject Write I Am I Feel I Write

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There is a kind of belief among my students that things that are true are interesting. But most things that are true are not interesting. Four pages describing how I got up and brushed my teeth in the morning would kill you.

~Alistair Macleod

Topics: Among Belief Describing Four Got How Interesting Kind Morning Most Pages Students Teeth Things True Up Would You

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We have this interesting problem with black holes. What is a black hole? It is a region of space where you have mass that's confined to zero volume, which means that the density is infinitely large, which means we have no way of describing, really, what a black hole is!

~Andrea M. Ghez

Topics: Black Black Hole Black Holes Confined Density Describing Hole Holes Infinitely Interesting Large Mass Means Problem Really Region Space Volume Way Where Which You Zero

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Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.

~Anita Baker

Topics: Capture Close Come Completeness Describing Emotions Given Happiness History Me Means Medical Motherhood Nothing Particularly Say Truly Words I Can

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Certain things can't be approximated, so I'm always interested in getting in another way, one which makes the reader bend in closer to the scene even if that scene, especially if that scene, is painful... Brutal language isn't necessarily the most truthful way of describing a brutal moment.

~Anne Michaels

Topics: Always Another Another Way Bend Brutal Certain Certain Things Closer Describing Even Getting Interested Language Makes Moment Most Necessarily Painful Reader Scene Things Truthful Way Which

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