Described Quotes

635 Described quotes by 530 unique authors

Winter then in its early and clear stages, was a purifying engine that ran unhindered over city and country, alerting the stars to sparkle violently… — Mark Helprin
It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven… — Albert Einstein
We are described into corners, and then we must describe ourselves out of corners. — Salman Rushdie
Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that… — Neal Stephenson
Once upon a time, there was a little creature that was rather small and rather wicked and it lived all alone in the woods. The… — Ursula Vernon
I honestly believe that people who never have children or never love a child are doomed to a sort of foolishness because it cant be… — Haven Kimmel
The inner voice is something which cannot be described in words. But sometimes we have a positive feeling that something in us prompts us to… — Mahatma Gandhi
A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is… — George Bernard Shaw
In the end, the art of hunger can be described as an existential art. It is a way of looking death in the face, and… — Paul Auster
She wore a short skirt and a tight sweater and her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak. — Woody Allen
You have taught us much. Come with us and join the movement." "This movement of yours, does it have slogans?" inquired the Chink. "Right on!"… — Tom Robbins
When I confront a human being as my Thou and speak the basic word I-Thou to him, then he is no thing among things nor… — Martin Buber
We are all a volume on a shelf of a library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately… — Deb Caletti
A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the… — Mortimer Adler
Both described at the same time how it was always March there and always Monday, and then they understood that JosÃ© Arcadio BuendÃa was not… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
â€¦I once found a list of diseases as yet unclassified by medical science, and among these there occurred the word Islomania, which was described as… — Lawrence Durrell
The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some chasm… — C.S. Lewis
Moonlight streamed in, sending loving beams over his face. He closed his eyes and basked in it, and I could tell it was calling to… — Patricia Briggs
This cell belongs to a brain, and it is my brain, the brain of me who is writing; and the cell in question, and within… — Primo Levi
It looked like the sort of book described in library catalogues as "slightly foxed", although it would be more honest to admit that it looked… — Terry Pratchett

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