Described Quotes

635 Described quotes by 530 unique authors

The work produced is a thing among things, able to be experienced and described as a sum of qualities. But from time to time it… — Martin Buber
I read an article on me once that described my machine-method of silk-screen copying and painting: 'What a bold and audacious solution, what depths of… — Andy Warhol
It is uplifting to lose one?s faith in a reality which looks the way it is described in a newspaper. — Karl Kraus
There's a lot of landscape I never would have described if I hadn't been homesick. The impulse was nostalgia. — Joan Didion
Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no significance in the world around us beyond that which can be weighed and measured… — Arthur Eddington
A wicked person, swayed by evil motives and evil actions, is described as a demon. — Sathya Sai Baba
Martin Luther described the doctrine of justification by faith as the article of faith that decides whether the church is standing or falling. By this… — J I Packer
But someone once described the contrast between a good life and a godly life as the difference between the top of the ocean and the… — Bill McCartney
Fewer than 40 percent of the alternative therapies are discussed with one's physician, In my personal view, the current status quo which could easily be… — David Eisenberg
Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection. — Matthew Arnold
Many people conceive of religion as something apart from everyday affairs of the world. They think of it in terms of ceremony or ritual or… — Norman Vincent Peale
In order to survive, all systems must evolve by providing greater and greater access to the currents that flow through them. This applies to all… — John Hagel
I always found it satisfying that gravity was described by Einstein's geometric theory of general relativity. — Antony Garrett Lisi
The master of the palace had similar functions at the court of Judah. Announcing the promotion of Elyaqim, Isaiah 22:22 says: 'I lay the key… — Roland de Vaux
George Orwell famously described international sport as 'war minus the shooting'. But for all Orwell's greatness as a thinker, this was one of his least… — Gideon Haigh
Umpiring is best described as the profession of standing between two seven-year olds with one ice cream cone. — Ron Luciano
Even the word depression itself was the terminological product of an effort to soften the connotation of deep trouble. In the last century, the term… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The scale of light can be described by numbers called the frequency and as the numbers get higher, the light goes from red to blue… — Richard P. Feynman
A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer the mark than… — George Bernard Shaw
The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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