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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either. — Igor Stravinsky
I don't think culture is something you can describe. — Bill Gates
The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window… — John Cheever
I can't even describe to anybody what it feels like to have my naked body shot across the world like a news flash against my… — Jennifer Lawrence
Music has its own internal logic. It is like the logic of a dream, clear in its own terms but not necessarily in everyday terms.… — Tamas Vasary
In 1968 I ran into Steve Lacy on the street in Rome. I took out my pocket tape recorder and asked him to describe in… — Unknown Author
There's just something about Highbury that is difficult to describe. When you first arrive, you hardly see the stadium and wonder where it is but… — Thierry Henry
It is impossible to devise a scientific experiment to describe the creation process, or even to ascertain whether such a process can take place. The… — Henry M. Morris
Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people. — Thomas A. Edison
"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an assertion of rationality.… — Benjamin Franklin
People ask me to describe how I play, and the most obvious answer is that I'm a jazz influenced guitar player. But I'm not a… — Larry Carlton
The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define. — C.S. Lewis
We are in the process of making the English language gender-neutral, and manliness, the quality of one gender, or rather, of one sex, seems to… — Harvey Mansfield
Two attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees. — Czeslaw Milosz
I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true. — Elie Wiesel
The atom can't be seen, yet its existence can be proved. And it is simple to prove that it can't ever be seen. It has… — Carl David Anderson
There is that kind of happiness. There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless… — P.J. O'Rourke
I have a catch-phrase to describe my plot-generation technique -- 'What's the worst possible thing I can do to these people?' — Lois McMaster Bujold
The inability to correctly perceive reality is often responsible for humans' insane behavior. And every time they substitute an all-purpose, sloppy slang word for the… — Tom Robbins
Memory itself is an internal rumour; and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we… — George Santayana

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