Described Quotes

635 Described quotes by 530 unique authors

The rainforest has an intense beauty that at times seems almost suffocating. The jungle is one twig short of impenetrable, and the greenery seems to… — Mark Barrowcliffe
I described the CEO job as knowing what to do and getting the company to do what you want. Designing a proper company culture will… — Ben Horowitz
Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy. — Noam Chomsky
Undoubtedly, the U.S. harbors leading international terrorists, people described by the F.B.I. and the Justice Department as leading terrorists, like Orlando Bosch, now Posada Carriles,… — Noam Chomsky
As a kid, I think people would have described me more as a goofball, or being energetic. But I always loved parodies; I loved spoofing… — Noel Wells
In the past, secularists sought to challenge dogma by the use of rational argument, claiming, for example, that miracles described in the Bible are scientifically… — Stephen Kinzer
Someone once described Ken Lewis to me as the most competitive person in the history of the United States, including the Union Army. — Charles Duhigg
Murk can be described as an enfeebled fog with a personality disorder; it is more troubled than ethereal, sulking moodily over our lives at the… — Michael Leunig
Several witnesses describe seeing an altercation in the car between Mr. Brown and Officer Wilson. It was described as wrestling, tug-of-war. Several other witnesses described… — Robert P. McCulloch
Feedback for leaders is often nuanced and difficult to deliver. That said, hearing you are passive-aggressive from 10 different people described 10 different ways becomes… — Scott Weiss
As a young man, causes of one kind or another engaged me, and I thought the media is where you express yourself in that. I… — Jonathan Dimbleby
Once upon a time, my mother lived in the posh downtown of Homs, Syria. She described my grandfather as a king in a storybook, atop… — Mona Simpson
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. — Arthur Koestler
May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music:… — James Joseph Sylvester
This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary… — Benjamin Tucker
Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties. — Gail Sheehy
There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed. — Garry Winogrand
I do regret, as I described in my book, the time that I shaved off half of my eyebrows thinking that I could draw them… — Molly Ringwald
Someone once described me as the Zelig of comedy, and I think I know what he means. — Arthur Smith
American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it. — Chad Harbach

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