Describes Quotes

225 Describes quotes by 196 unique authors

You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine… — John Keats
It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes. — Thomas Paine
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers. — Jean Paul
Deep walkability describes a city that is built in such a way that you can move from one area to another on foot, on bicycle,… — Alex Steffen
Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective. — Francis Parker Yockey
Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet. — Douglas Adams
As your lover describes you, so you are. — Jeanette Winterson
One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is by… — Neil Gaiman
The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the… — Robert Anton Wilson
Did I say that she was beautiful? I was wrong. Beauty is too tame a notion; it evokes only faces in magazines. A lovely eloquence,… — Clive Barker
Words fail me sometimes. I have read most every word in the Webster’s International Dictionary of the English Language, but I still have trouble making… — Jennifer Donnelly
A Manhattan lawyer who describes himself as "America`s leading expert on the militia movement" writes that he hugged his three-year-old kid the night of the… — Jim Goad
Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything. — Martin Amis
Let me be the first to admit that the naked truth about me is to the naked truth about Salvador Dali as an old ukulele… — James Thurber
A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes. — Desmond Tutu
The word that most perfectly describes the city of Cuzco is evocative. Intangible dust of another era settles on its streets, rising like the disturbed… — Che Guevara
In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness which starts to set in at about 2:55, when… — Douglas Adams
In my case such an expression as 'to be fallen for' or even 'to be loved' is not in the least appropriate; perhaps it describes… — Osamu Dazai
The most striking difference between little ones and grownups is that little ones cannot worry, and they cannot worry because they have no past and… — Maria von Trapp
The word 'truth' itself ceases to have its old meaning. It describes no longer something to be found, with the individual conscience as the sole… — Friedrich August von Hayek
One young woman's tribute describes unwrapping her cadaver's hands and being brought up short by the realization that the nails were painted pink. "The pictures… — Mary Roach
Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by… — Evelyn Underhill
I’m not particularly keen on writing which exhaustively describes the physical characteristics of the people in the story and what they’re wearing… I can always… — Stephen King
Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?"... "Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223"... "And pray, why would this number interest us?"… — Abraham Verghese

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