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I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better with poisons. Besides,… — Agatha Christie
More often than not, however, the person who flatly states 'Elves aren't like that!' is hard pressed to describe how they really look.... as if… — John Howe
It would be bad form for me to describe people I don't know and don't understand. — Francoise Sagan
All history teaches us that these questions that we think the pressing ones will be transmuted before they are answered, that they will be replaced… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
If you were to describe me as teetotal, on behalf of my constituency I'd have to sue; that would lose me every vote in the… — Charles Kennedy
Looking out of my window this lovely spring morning I see an azalea in full bloom. No, no! I do not see that; though that… — Charles Sanders Peirce
One of the things that all authors of fiction must learn to judge is whether - and in what detail - to describe the face… — Lynne Truss
All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father's peculiarly aggressive comic style. I recently settled on 'defamatory. — Martin Amis
I would describe myself as quite sane and lucid, which is why I'm still alive. — John McAfee
Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that… — Jonathan Raban
A lot of people think they need to give up nature to become adults but that's not true. However, you have to be careful how… — Richard Louv
It would be far to general a statement to try and describe the daily life of an actor in Hollywood, but I am quite certain… — Corin Nemec
If you can describe clearly without a diagram the proper way of making this or that knot, then you are a master of the English… — Hilaire Belloc
I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years. — Tom Perrotta
There are no words that can describe the euphoria you feel when your baby recognizes you for the first time and smiles. — Jared Padalecki
With most of my books, I'll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of makes the scene… — John Sandford
I think the tendency to over-explain and over describe is one of the most common failings in fantasy. It's an unfortunate piece of Tolkien's legacy.… — Patrick Rothfuss
Words are worthless. How can you describe the other worlds? — Frederick Lenz
I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face by saying where… — Flannery O'Connor
We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that… — Maj Sjowall
I don't want to describe either Governor Mitt Romney or the Republicans as stupid, but I will say this - if you look at their… — Antonio Villaraigosa
Even after only several weeks of practicing meditation, you will begin to have more energy and be a little bit happier. Eventually, you will experience… — Frederick Lenz
And then he says, "The writer must be true to truth." And that's a killer, because the only way you can describe a human being… — Joseph Campbell
... for our sake loosing within Himself the bonds of bodily birth, He granted us through spiritual birth, according to our own volition, power to… — Maximus the Confessor
I feel like if you can describe something fully and accurately, then people will be able to see it themselves - they don't need be… — Kenneth Lonergan

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