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635 Described quotes by 530 unique authors

My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective. — Tim Robbins
No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to… — Unknown Author
I mean, The New York Times actually had an interesting case recently where they described a detainee who was afraid of the dark, and so… — Jane Mayer
Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married. — Ed McMahon
A friend of mine described it this way: When they were born it was like a meteor landed in our house and blew everything apart.… — Christine Lahti
The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really… — Pete Townshend
The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with… — Christopher Alexander
Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can… — Manfred von Richthofen
The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the actual achievement of… — Herbert Croly
I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one… — Manfred von Richthofen
The reports of the eclipse parties not only described the scientific observations in great detail, but also the travels and experiences, and were sometimes marked… — Simon Newcomb
This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made prominent, and, after a fashion familiar. I must state it… — Josiah Royce
But in this Second Work if thou extract our Air and our Fire with the phlegm water, they will the more naturally and easily be… — George Ripley
The possibility of saying anything about a thing rests on the assumption that it preserves its identity, or continues to be the same thing in… — Frank Knight
Law school has been described as a place for the accumulation of learning. First-year students bring some in; third-year students take none away. Hence it… — Unknown Author
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....' — Thomas A. Edison
What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor — H. L. Mencken
Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting two and two together to make five — Arthur Koestler
If both the physiological and the safety needs are fairly well gratified, then there will emerge love and affection and belongingness needs, and the whole… — Abraham Maslow
The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who wished to preserve Judaism - one who wished to reform… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women's hair rhapsodically described, women's… — Ben Hecht
It is freely admitted that this "testing" is far from ideal and could even be described as anecdotal. — Eric Gill
Birds are so much wiser than we! A robin builds a nest for robins. A seagull builds a nest for seagulls. They don't copy each… — Dorothy Draper
We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it. — Alexander Markovich Polyakov
Muscular dystrophy ... was never seen until Duchenne described it in the 1850s. By 1860, after his original description, many hundreds of cases had been… — Oliver Sacks

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