Describing Quotes

223 Describing quotes by 207 unique authors

If a little less time was devoted to the translation of letters by Julius Caesar describing Britain 2000 years ago and a little more time… — Unknown Author
One must conclude that, contrary to the established and current wisdom, a scenario describing the genesis of life on earth by chance and natural causes… — Hubert Yockey
It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life… — H. L. Mencken
...the computer models are very good at solving equations of fluid dynamics but very bad at describing the real world. The real world is full… — Freeman Dyson
Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a stallholder in a… — Guy de Maupassant
I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe.… — Garry Winogrand
Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say… — Paul de Man
There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he… — Louis Aragon
You write down a paragraph or two describing several different subjects creating a kind of story ingredients-list, I suppose, and then cut the sentences into… — David Bowie
Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles. — Thomas Carlyle
In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful. ... With the best restaurants in… — Anthony Bourdain
C.S. Lewis admitted, when he was asked to set forth his beliefs, that he never felt less sure of them than when he tried to… — Robert Adams
And when you look at the twentieth-century experiment with collectivism-that Ayn Rand, more than anybody else, did such a good job of articulating the pitfalls… — Paul Ryan
I like real art. It's difficult to define 'real' but it is the best word for describing what I like to get out of art… — Frank Stella
The ultimate Mystery of being, the ultimate Truth, is Love. This is the essential structure of reality. When Dante spoke of the 'love which moves… — Venerable Bede
The truth feels different from other things. The closest you can come to describing it is that it feels like taking a perfect breath. — David Levithan
Describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial: These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. — Jeff Greenfield
It's strictly coincidental that Pluto of course was named for the god of the underworld and we're describing these Halloween moons — Alan Stern
Often while reading a book one feels that the author wouold heave preferred to paint rather than to wirte; one can sense the pleasure he… — Pablo Picasso
It was a different sexual situation going on than it is in the '80s and '90s, and I did a very poor job of describing… — Wilt Chamberlain

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