#scribe

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#anyone #cannot #choice #decision #declaration

When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things. ↗

— John Irving

#almost #day #described #diary #drawing

We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe. ↗

— Alfred Kinsey

#describe #facts #judges #recorders #reporters

Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#described #designs #i #i think #may

The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water. ↗

— Sophocles

#inscribe #oaths #water #woman

Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#arm #autograph #been #come #i

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed. ↗

— Garry Winogrand

#described #fact #i #like #look

A friend of mine described it this way: When they were born it was like a meteor landed in our house and blew everything apart. We had to just put all the pieces back. ↗

— Christine Lahti

#back #blew #born #described #everything

Part of my job as a food writer is to describe food. So my work on 'Top Chef,' I feel, is an extension of that. When we give a criticism to the contestant, we want to make sure we tell them why it's not working and why it would work if they did it a different way. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#contestant #criticism #describe #did #different

I would describe myself as quite sane and lucid, which is why I'm still alive. ↗

— John McAfee

#describe #i #lucid #myself #quite