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Sir," returned Mrs. Sparsit, " I cannot say that i have heard him precisely snore, and therefore must not make that statement. But on winter… — Charles Dickens
People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it's… — Banksy
During the terrible years of the Yekhov terror I spent seventeen months in the prison queues in Leningrad. One day someone ‘identified’ me. Then a… — Anna Akhmatova
It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how his stomach knotted up every… — Jodi Picoult
My life is a rather grim one. One day I shall perhaps describe it to you in great detail. — John Kennedy Toole
Difficult but worth it-- that's how my mother had once describe life with Omi. — Kamila Shamsie
Someday you're really going to have to describe to me in more detail what life is like on the planet you live on. Because it… — Meg Cabot
We read to learn and to grow, to laugh, to be motivated, and to understand things we've never been exposed to. We read for strength… — Joan Bauer
This morning, Tegus welcomed me again with an arm clasp and cheek touch. I wasn't startled this time, and I breathed in at his neck.… — Shannon Hale
This was my voice, but perfectly wise, calm and compassionate. This was what my voice would sound like if I’d only ever experienced love and… — Elizabeth Gilbert
The truth is always greater than the words we use to describe it. — Matthew Woodring Stover
It is the duty of the writer to describe. — Virginia Woolf
Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery. — Ram Dass
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A living poem" had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others. — Nicholas Sparks
The only way I can describe the extent of my anxiety is to say that I felt as if I were pregnant with a rock. — Katharine Graham
A good piece of fiction, in my view, does not offer solutions. Good stories deal with our moral struggles, our uncertainties, our dreams, our blunders,… — Tim O'Brien
His eldest sister (who modestly prefers to be identified here as a Tuckahoe homemaker) has asked me to describe him as looking like 'the blue-eyed… — J D Salinger
Tom had traveled around the sun eleven times when the delivery truck brought his mother's newest fridge, but a number doesn't really describe his age. — N.D. Wilson
As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because… — Bertrand Russell
I wished I could explain it to those I loved, my mother, to Japhy, but there just weren't any words to describe the nothingness and… — Jack Kerouac
She gave him a wan smile. "And then you came, Eragon. You and Saphira. After hope had deserted me and I was about to be… — Christopher Paolini
Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can't control, one that overwhelms logic and common sense. That's what it was like for me.… — Nicholas Sparks
It's far easier to write why something is terrible than why it's good. If you're reviewing a film and you decide "This is a movie… — Chuck Klosterman

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