Describing Quotes

223 Describing quotes by 207 unique authors

The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time… — Stanislav Grof
If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in… — Dick Durbin
The Old Testament is a chronicle of horrors, describing an egocentric collection of supernatural beings who were always doing rotten things to gentle souls like… — John A. Keel
Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient—dealing with it by making statements about it, authorizing views of… — Edward Said
Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing… — Yehuda Amichai
When I write about "realizations," I am describing a state in which a practitioner has wisdom of who she or he is, and has embodied… — Russell Targ
I don't like people to feel completely described by the clothes they wear of mine. I want them to feel that they're describing themselves. — Isaac Mizrahi
But psychology is a more tricky field, in which even outstanding authorities have been known to run in circles, 'describing things which everyone knows in… — Raymond Cattell
I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. — Vin Scully
When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he… — Anton Chekhov
Trying to explain or define grace is like catching the wind in a cardboard box or describing the color green. — Cathleen Falsani
My other car is a vehicle with a bumper sticker describing this car. — Damien Fahey
I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving… — Anne Tyler
The word hammockable (describing two trees that are the perfect distance apart between which a hammock can be hung) is not in the dictionary, but… — Dan Kieran
Describing the Internet as the Network of Networks is like calling the Space Shuttle, a thing that flies. — Jon Lester
To try to explain something as "I love it" and "It's fun" would be like describing the sunset over the middle of the ocean as… — Tara Dakides
Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this… — Alan Watts
The primary opportunity is to use a model or paradigm for describing ADD that's not disease-based and doesn't imply brain damage or what many children… — Thom Hartmann
Modern physics is describing what the ancient wisdom keepers of the Americas have long known. These shamans, known as 'the Earthkeepers,' say that we’re dreaming… — Alberto Villoldo
You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how… — Humphrey Carpenter
Everything that can happen, does. That's quantum mechanics. But this does not mean everything happens. The rest of physics is about describing what can happen… — Antony Garrett Lisi
Jim Pagliaroni joined the club tonight and is going to be a welcome addition. He was describing a girl that one of the ballplayers had… — Jim Bouton
A mathematician believes that describing the speed of Mercury with equations amounts to science. — Bill Gaede
The goal in blogging/ business/ inspiring non-fiction is to share a truth, or at least a truth as the writer sees it. To not just… — Seth Godin
The future depicted in a good SF story ought to be in fact possible, or at least plausible. That means that the writer should be… — Frederik Pohl

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