Describing Quotes

223 quotes by 214 authors

There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up… — Margaret Atwood
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. — Francis Bacon
Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me,… — Anita Baker
Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it. — James A. Baldwin
Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek… — Steven Biko
I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and rather cowardly. I… — Conrad Black
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as… — Niels Bohr
Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy. — Robert Bork
What men don't want, in fact what anyone who's any sort of thrill-seeking, intelligent adult doesn't want, is some crushing bore describing their emotions in… — Julie Burchill
I'm not in the business of telling people what to do. I'm much more in the business of describing things, situations and stuff like that… — Nick Cave
Judy Blume excels at describing how it feels to be invisible. So how poetic is it that Blume herself is suddenly everywhere? — Diablo Cody
Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness… — Roger Penrose
The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is only when science asks why, instead of simply describing how, that it becomes more than technology. When it asks why, it discovers Relativity.… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Science is really about describing the way the universe works in one aspect or another in all branches of science-how a life-form works, how this… — Steven Chu
Love can sweep you off your feet and carry you along in a way you've never known before. But the ride always ends, and you… — Jack Handey
In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters… — Alvin Toffler
Singer and actress Gertrude Lawrence once overheard an assistant describing the beauty of a coat she knew she could never even dream of affording. Having… — Sheridan Morley
Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit. — Caryl Churchill
An announcement of [Christopher] Zeeman's lecture at Northwestern University in the spring of 1977 contains a quote describing catastrophe theory as the most important development… — Stephen Smale

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