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635 Described quotes by 530 unique authors

...to swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent. — Markus Zusak
Bruno, my old faithful. I haven't sufficiently described him. Is it enough to say he is indescribable? No. Better to try and fail than not… — Nicole Krauss
Learning to stop sweating the small stuff involves deciding what things to engage in and what things to ignore. From a certain perspective, life can… — Richard Carlson
Are you the one with the blue eyes?" "Actually, my eyes are usually described as golden...and luminous. — Cassandra Clare
The men who committed the atrocities of September 11 were certainly not "cowards," as they were repeatedly described in the Western media, nor were they… — Sam Harris
Laney had recently noticed that the only people who had titles that clearly described their jobs had jobs he wouldn't have wanted. — William Gibson
I have never described this to you before, not so much, I don't think, from lack of truthfulness as that, just naturally, one is not… — Julio Cortazar
But let there be no misunderstanding: it is not that a real man, the object of knowledge, philosophical reflection or technological intervention, has been substituted… — Michel Foucault
...we are all a volume on the shelf of the... library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately… — Deb Caletti
Because a real kiss, a kiss that two real people choose to give each other - it's something that can't be filmed or photographed or… — Andrew Clements
Tears are scientifically described as a Secretion. I can understand that a secretion may be healthy or unhealthy, but I cannot see the interest of… — Wilkie Collins
Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day… — George Bernard Shaw
Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenor of your life in Bath without one? How are the civilities and… — Jane Austen
Writing about the indignities of old age: the daunting stairway to the restaurant restroom, the benefits of a wheelchair in airports and its disadvantages at… — John Mortimer
So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or… — William James
How pathetic it is to describe these things which can't truly be described. — Anne Rice
People don't become inured to what they are shown - if that's the right way to describe what happens - because of the quantity of… — Susan Sontag
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds — Samuel Butler
...the darkness does not lift but becomes yet heavier as I think how little we can hold in mind, how everything is constantly lapsing into… — W G Sebald
We shortchange ourselves by regarding religious faith as a matter of intellectual assent. This is a modern aberration; the traditional Christian view is far more… — Kathleen Norris

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