Description Quotes · Page 24

Needless to say, there was no one around remotely fitting the description of a normal person: I was at a writing conference.

— Anne Lamott

America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain. It's 'winner take nothing' that is the…

— Ralph Ellison

Often, when I want to read something that is satisfying to me as theology, what I actually read is string theory, or…

— Marilynne Robinson

“He rises off the bed and tries to speak, but cannot stop the pain in his throat, and cannot articulate a word,…

— Emma Richler

Amy Winehouse - her surname's beginning to sound like a description of her liver.

— Russell Brand

The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw…

— Isaac Newton

As a progressive discipline [biochemistry] belongs to the present century. From the experimental physiologists of the last century it obtained a charter,…

— Frederick Gowland Hopkins

It's just I hate reading the description 'offbeat' about a character in a script, because I, along with Seth Green, Jamie Kennedy…

— Breckin Meyer

To be connected with the church is to be associated with scoundrels, warmongers, fakes, child-molesters, murderers, adulterers, and hypocrites of every description.…

— Ronald Rolheiser

Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.

— Duane Michals

Now take all these qualities together: order, balance, evolution and intelligence. What you have is a description of love. It's not the…

— Deepak Chopra

The photograph [of Che Guevara], for a civilization now accustomed to thinking in images, was not the description of a single event...…

— Umberto Eco

For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.

— John le Carre

The most beautiful conception of immortality of which I know, and certainly one that by contrast shows the utter vulgarity of Christian…

— Revilo P. Oliver

“These hands are steady enough, but they are large. Had he been a proper pianist - he's dabbled inexpertly - his ten-note…

— Ian McEwan

“...the half-concealed disasters that constitute a life.”

— Don DeLillo

[I had a sense of interior panic].Always. I didn't really know what to call it for a long time, but I have…

— Leonard Cohen

There's this whole notion of being an Indian - the idea that "warrior" is a positive description of us [Indians as native…

— Sherman Alexie

Descriptions of my work depress me. They make me feel pinned down.

— Thom Mayne

My hope is that the description of God's love in my life will give you the freedom and the courage to discover...…

— Henri Nouwen

Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. Love, and don't be caught in…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

You’re a guardian angel now.”.... I’m your guardian angel,” he said. “I get my very own guardian angel? What, exactly, is your…

— Becca Fitzpatrick

“Outside, I could smell the Zebra. Even if for some reason I stopped feeling cold or hot or rain or sun, I…

— Adina Rishe Gewirtz

“This morning, I see the lead in my glass tumbler. A slim, bright glint, a silverfish. I feel it collecting in my…

— Sara Baume

“She was strong and stubborn but loving. She was an untouchable angel with a devil’s mark. She was beautiful.”

— Shannon A. Thompson