Describing Quotes
223 Describing quotes by 207 unique authors
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You are not Kaia the Disappointment. Do you hear me? That’s what I was trying to tell you earlier. You are Kaia the Mighty. How…
— Gena Showalter
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Don't go into great detail describing places and things, unless you're Margaret Atwood and can paint scenes with language. You don't want descriptions that bring…
— Elmore Leonard
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What was it, he wondered for the hundredth time, that enabled Pastor Harris to hear the answers in his heart? What did he mean when…
— Nicholas Sparks
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Did you see him? I know the photo was grainy, but he looks like one of those death metal goth heads, or whatever they’re called.…
— Meg Cabot
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I receive a lot of letters like yours. Most go on in length, describing all sorts of maddening situations and communications in bewildered detail, but…
— Cheryl Strayed
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It would be like describing colors to someone blind from birth: The words might be understood, but the concept would remain mysterious and private.
— Nicholas Sparks
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The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting and I think worth describing in detail.
— George Orwell
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I am not out to liberate anybody. You have to liberate yourself, and you are unable to do that. What I have to say will…
— U.G. Krishnamurti
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And maybe it would have bitten you in half," said Will. "What you are describing, the transformation into a demon, is the last stage of…
— Cassandra Clare
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If you've lived through it, you already know there are no words that will ever come close to describing it, and if you didn't -…
— Jodi Picoult
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Some writers later, describing the events of that night and day, wrote that Wan'yen of the Altai had seen a spirit-dragon of the river and…
— Guy Gavriel Kay
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They both seemed to understand that describing it was beyond their powers, the gratitude that spreads through your body when a burden gets lifted, and…
— Tom Perrotta
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I have a very difficult time describing my music.
— Les Claypool
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Prose is all about embellishing and describing.
— Mike Birbiglia
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Our best theory of describing space at a fundamental level is probably string theory.
— Alan Guth
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The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and…
— Bill Gates
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The majority of my UFO diet consists of reports describing suspected encounters. This is not surprising, as there are thousands of sightings annually. The emailer…
— Seth Shostak
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My three years at the NIH were critical in my scientific education. I learned an immense amount about the research process: developing assays, purifying macromolecules,…
— Stanley B. Prusiner
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Many people have told me that my books read like novels. Perhaps this is because, when I write, I feel I am really there, so…
— Alison Weir
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Truth be known, President Obama has never been particularly driven by principle. Right after his election, I wrote a column in a few days warning…
— Jonathan Turley
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Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the low-down on water.…
— Inga Muscio
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If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a fine addition to…
— Unknown Author
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We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information…
— Tony Scott
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There is no justifiable prediction about how the hypothesis will hold up in the future; its degree of corroboration simply is a historical statement describing…
— Robert Nozick
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The Roswell incident, for instance, had over three hundred witnesses - some describing the bodies, some the craft, some the military procedures. Were they all…
— Dwight Schultz
Who Wrote These Describing Quotes
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