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635 Described quotes by 530 unique authors

The good folks mostly win, courage usually triumphs over fear, the family dog hardly ever contracts rabies: these are things I knew at twenty-five, and… — Stephen King
The motive that impels modern reason to know must be described as the desire to conquer and dominate. For the Greek philosophers and the Fathers… — JÃ¼rgen Moltmann
This time Magnus answered it, his voice booming through the tiny entryway. "WHO DARES DISTURB MY REST?" Jace looked almost nervous. "Jace Wayland. Remember? I'm… — Cassandra Clare
Hamas is regularly described as 'Iranian-backed Hamas, which is dedicated to the destruction of Israel.' One will be hard put to find something like 'democratically… — Noam Chomsky
Norman Mailer described the desire to be cool as a "decision to encourage the psychopath in oneself, to explore that domain of experience where security… — Anthony Bourdain
The novel I am constantly writing is always the same one, and it might be described as a variously sliced-up or torn-apart book of myself. — Robert Walser
Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief? — Kate Morton
You know,” he said, “I wish you could see this cave.” “What’s it like?” He paused. “It’s...beautiful, really.” “Tell me.” And so Po described to… — Kristin Cashore
Throughout the years I have set up my own rules about eating food: Never eat anything you can't pronounce. Beware of food that is described… — Erma Bombeck
So I have just one wish for you – the good luck to be somewhere where you are free to maintain the kind of integrity… — Richard P. Feynman
Life has to be described in pure and simple physical and physiological terms. It must be demystified and depsychologised — U.G. Krishnamurti
Hersesy is denying the word of God, and the word of God is much more reliably expressed in the natural world as it’s revealed through… — Iain Banks
There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is something salvageable from the original… — Mark Epstein
...Generally people don't recomend this type of book at all. It is far too interesting. Perhaps you have had other books recomended to you. Perhaps,… — Brandon Sanderson
He was not used to the smell of dragon breath, which is best described as a combination of the stench of burning rubber and the… — Angie Sage
Writing can be described in two verbs: Throw up and clean up. — Ray Bradbury
He was jingling his keys in the pocket of his coat -- one of those barn coats described as rugged and classic and four hundred… — Maggie Stiefvater
Because I was permanently confused, dissatisfied, unhappy, tormented by inadequacy, driven by wanting towards every kind of impossible future, the attitude of mind described by… — Doris Lessing
True hospitality is marked by an open response to the dignity of each and every person. Henri Nouwen has described it as receiving the stranger… — Kathleen Norris
If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. But if otherwise--if regard springing from… — Jane Austen
...my boredom might be described as a malady affecting external objects and consisting of a withering process; an almost instantaneous loss of vitality--just as though… — Alberto Moravia
As you travel around medieval England you will come across a sport described by some contemporaries as 'abominable ... more common, undignified and worthless than… — Ian Mortimer
I’m not complaining about Romance Being Dead - I’ve just described a happy marriage as based on talking about plants and a canceled Ray Romano… — Mindy Kaling
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
Down through the years my face has been called a sour puss, a dead pan, a frozen face, The Great Stone Face, and, believe it… — Buster Keaton

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