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To describe our growing up in the lowcountry of South Carolina, I would have to take you to the marsh on a spring day, flush… — Pat Conroy
Your love keeps me afloat but will remain the anchor in my soul... I don't really have words to describe how romantic I find that.… — Rabindranath Tagore
Well, I can't describe her exactly-except to say that she was beautiful. She was-tremendously alive. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Recycling is more expensive for communities than it needs to be, partly because traditional recycling tries to force materials into more lifetimes than they are… — William McDonough
Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would describe it as… — E. M. Forster
And imagine acquiring a new language and only learning the words to describe a wonderful world, refusing to know the words for a bleak one… — Rosamund Lupton
Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. So if, from perhaps some unhealthy desire for sympathetic support,… — Benjamin Lee Whorf
As God's beloved, I live in the bliss knowing that my soul is never separated from Him, for I learn to know Her in all… — Teresa of Avila
The notion that any one person can describe 'what really happened' is an absurdity. If ten - or a hundred - people witness an event,… — David Eddings
Pick a better verb. Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an A-bomb. — Janet Fitch
All the things I thought I was - simple and plain and sometime funny - are very small words. They do not begin to describe… — Adriana Trigiani
The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time. — Franz Wright
The lesson about food is that the most predictable and the most orderly outcomes are always not the best. They are just easier to describe.… — Tyler Cowen
One might as well attempt to describe the smoothness of the wind as to paint a clear picture of his complete swing. — Grantland Rice
Made up of the glories of the most precious gems, to describe them is a matter of inexpressible difficulty. For there is amongst them the… — Pliny the Elder
It took me 1057 pages to describe the hundreds of mathematical equations, algorithms and programming techniques that I invented and used. — Philip Emeagwali
Generalization is flawed thinking only when applied to individuals. It is the most accurate way to describe the mass, the Wad. And yours is a… — Trevanian
I would describe my dancing talents as incredibly deep. — Taylor Phinney
The Social Citizen is the best, most thorough, and most methodologically sophisticated treatment of the role of social networks in political behavior that I have… — James H. Fowler
For all the time schools devote to the teaching of mathematics, very little (if any) is spent trying to convey just what the subject is… — Keith Devlin

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