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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it? — Jules Verne
No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herseif as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an embedded journalist' is to say, 'I'm a government… — Noam Chomsky
This is the nature of love." Vashet said. "To attempt to describe it will drive a woman mad. This is what keeps poets scribbling endlessly… — Patrick Rothfuss
Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something… — Chinua Achebe
The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising. — Hanif Kureishi
There were words for what he meant to me, but if I studied every language ever spoken for the next thousand years, I still wouldn’t… — Jeaniene Frost
there simply is no way to describe the past without lying. Our memories are not like fiction. They are fiction. — Jonah Lehrer
Love is a mystery. We embrace it where we can. Mostly we do not choose whom we love. It just happens. A voice speaks to… — David Gemmell
No mother. Two small words, and yet within them lay a bottomless well of pain and loss, a ceaseless mourning for touches that were never… — Kristin Hannah
...what was it like out there? Kind of describe it to us," Jessa says, beaming at them and then at me. Trini beams at her… — Melina Marchetta
You look like a ghost," Bailey says. He can think of no better way to describe it. "You appear the same way to me, so… — Erin Morgenstern
The feeling that was born that night, how could i describe it?Words like love or lust just don't seem right. I may call it jealousy,… — Ai Yazawa
Besides, I'd seen a really nice pair of shoes yesterday in the mall and I wanted them for my own. I can't describe the feeling… — Marian Keyes
Anyone who knows God cannot describe Him. Anyone who can describe God does not know Him. — Paulo Coelho
THING TO TRY: If you are asked to describe a suspect to a police sketch artist, describe in precise detail, the features of the police… — Demetri Martin
The more she thought about it, the more Madeleine understood that extreme solitude didn't just describe the way she was feeling about Leonard. It explained… — Jeffrey Eugenides
It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Over the years I knew her she always looked at me like that - as though I was a quite pleasant but amusing object -… — James Herriot
There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Cept for Ben, who I can’t describe much further without seeming soft and stupid and like a boy, so I won’t, just to say that… — Patrick Ness
What i literally cannot describe is the hollowness in my lungs when i am out of her presence. It is as if i were dying… — Jed Rubenfeld
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion. — Immanuel Kant
We see the world, not as it is, but as we are -- or, as we are conditioned to see it. When we open our… — Stephen Covey
Dumped doesn't even begin to describe it. If you're going to use a trash metaphor, incinerated is more like it. — Rachel Cohn
And you who wish to represent by words the form of man and all the aspects of his membrification, relinquish that idea. For the more… — Leonardo da Vinci

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