When you are developing your style, you avoid weaknesses. I am not good at describing things, so I stay away from it.… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
If words were adequate to describe fully what the dance can do, there would be no reason for all the mighty muscular… — Jose Limon Copy Share Image
It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle-dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travellers… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Mathematicians are inexorably drawn to nature, not just describing what is to be found there, but in creating echoes of natural laws. — Roger Lewin Copy Share Image
I've referred to [Marcus Lemonis] as my celebrity crush. I'm totally describing my celebrity crush, and that was not the question. But… — June Diane Raphael Copy Share Image
In my writing, I'm often describing a universal situation. A situation in which human beings often choose to violate each other. Sometimes… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
The Roswell incident, for instance, had over three hundred witnesses - some describing the bodies, some the craft, some the military procedures.… — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
I like real art. It's difficult to define 'real' but it is the best word for describing what I like to get… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
Literature is always best when it is celebrating its subjects darkly. ... And because it is often by describing the thing lost… — Bill Buford Copy Share Image
We need faith, not because there are beings who will punish us or reward us, but because gods are a wonderful way… — Ming-Dao Deng Copy Share Image
Three principles - the conformability of nature to herself, the applicability of the criterion of simplicity, and the utility of certain parts… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
As I've said repeatedly, Republicans are very good at describing things in black and white; Democrats are very good at describing the… — Joseph C. Wilson Copy Share Image
Judy Blume excels at describing how it feels to be invisible. So how poetic is it that Blume herself is suddenly everywhere? — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself; wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I always attempt to challenge and upend discourses that appear to be disinterestedly describing the world, but that are in fact wholly… — Richard Marshall Copy Share Image
When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I have trouble actually describing myself because I'm always suspicious of people who start describing themselves. I'm like, "OK, why are you… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
What is drawing? Not once in describing the shape of the mass did I shift my eyes from the model. Why? Because… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
Keep up your patient's spirits by music of viols and ten-stringed psaltery, or by forged letters describing the death of his enemies,… — Henri de Mondeville Copy Share Image
For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
David Foster Wallace is a big idol of mine. His writing is so clear that for years I'd read him and think,… — Damian Kulash Copy Share Image
Mr. Adams, describing a conversation with Jonathan Sewall in 1774, says: "I answered that the die was now cast; I had passed… — John Adams Copy Share Image