Describing Quotes

223 Describing quotes by 207 unique authors

It was Mrs. Campbell, for instance, who, on a celebrated occasion, threw her companion into a flurry by describing her recent marriage as "the deep,… — Alexander Woollcott
With Gnaw I was thinking about traditional sculpture, about carving. I was also interested in figurative sculpture. I put those two ideas together and decided… — Janine Antoni
There was a time when formal clothes were one of life's great pleasures, as well as a way of describing instantly a man's status wealth.… — Peter York
Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of color. Thus it is incapable of producing a picture of this color. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
We are working on creating self-describing, self-organizing, self-diagnosing and self-repairing networks. — John Seely Brown
Hence when a person is in great pain, the cause of which he cannot remove, he sets his teeth firmly together, or bites some substance… — Erasmus Darwin
A friend told me of visiting the Dalai Lama in India and asking him for a succinct definition of compassion. She prefaced her question by… — Marc Ian Barasch
Reading Gypsy Boy, I felt invited into a secret society. I've always found Gypsies mysterious and even slightly dangerous, and Mikey Walsh does an excellent… — Julia Scheeres
I'm really bad at describing my books. Journalists like to have things like "It's The Terminator Meets the Seven Dwarfs." And I can't do that… — Charles de Lint
I love her [Kimberly Peirce]. Incredibly intense is a good way of describing her. Brutally honest. Really sharp. She's a director for actors. That's what… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was actually describing on twitter what I was… — Benedict Cumberbatch
How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people… — Umberto Eco
Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that's a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and… — Jonathan Ive
'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it. — Meghan O'Rourke
Australia is so cool that it's hard to even know where to start describing it. The beaches are beautiful; so is the weather. Not too… — Mary-Kate Olsen
A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase. — George Orwell
There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should… — Ron Paul
Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have. — Joe Perry
Why, listening to Obama talk about his economic triumphs over the last three years might make you want to move to the country he was… — John Podhoretz
I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I… — Vin Scully
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it. — Stendhal
Of course, politicians always say they're just describing their opponents' positions, even if they are in fact offering absurd caricatures, if not outright lies. — James Surowiecki
Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with… — Edward Witten
And all the books you've read have been read by other people. And all the songs you've loved have been heard by other people. And… — Stephen Chbosky
The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is… — Edward Gibbon

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