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My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#art #below #describe #gay #greenwich

The word 'funny' is a bit like the word 'love' - we don't have enough words to describe the many varieties. ↗

— George Saunders

#describe #enough #funny #like #love

Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#anything #convey #describe #meaning #scene

It's a very typical UFO sighting. Carter said it changed color and, in the physical report, described it as being about the size of the moon. And he saw it with about twenty-five other people. ↗

— Dwight Schultz

#being #carter #changed #color #described

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

— Douglas Sirk

#describe #exactly #homes #i #live

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

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#ages #been #eunuch #house #i

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#any #defense #exists #idea #institution

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#course #heap #his #leader #lets

The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#describes #form #pictorial #whatever