Describing Quotes

223 Describing quotes by 207 unique authors

PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it. — Ambrose Bierce
You might be a redneck if...you've been on TV more than times describing the sound of a tornado. — Jeff Foxworthy
He's a boating enthusiast, although that phrase seems too weak to describe the level of his interest, kind of like describing someone as a heroin… — Dave Barry
Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being. — Armstrong Williams
From the baking aisle to the post office line to the wrapping paper bin in the attic, women populate every dark corner of Christmas. Who… — Rachel Held Evans
If we were magically shrunk and put into someone's brain while she was thinking, we would see all the pumps, pistons, gears and levers working… — Gottfried Leibniz
As an artist, you don't think about the parabola or the arc you're describing or where you're going to ultimately end up, you're just kind… — Michael Nesmith
An author describing the methods of intensive farming, or the excesses of sport hunting, or even the harsher uses of animals in science writes with… — Matthew Scully
I'm like John Wayne. I only play good guys. Describing his cameo role on a TV series. — Oliver North
Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness. — Mark Strand
Surrender. That's an interesting term. We tend to see all forms of surrender as negative--war, sports, highway on-ramps. You'd never hear us describing a relationship… — Franz Wisner
What is drawing? Not once in describing the shape of the mass did I shift my eyes from the model. Why? Because I wanted to… — Auguste Rodin
Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. — Jonathan Ive
Describing yourself by your earthly nativity is carnality. Being born again, your nativity is of divinity. — Chris Oyakhilome
My wife and I have just returned from Belgium where, courtesy of the hotel TV, we acquired a new perspective on the Iraq war. The… — David Walker
[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached. — Bernard Berenson
I have this little neighbor next door. He comes over and tells me about playing Call of Duty, and he's talking about, 'Aw yeah, I… — Jonathan Gottschall
There was wildlife, untouched, a jungle at the border of the sea, never seen by those who floated on the opaque roof. Describing his early… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
The point of my explanation is I'm very subjective when it comes to describing my characters: they are all a little bit a part of… — Eric Roberts
The Moon is a white strange world, great, white, soft-seeming globe in the night sky, and what she actually communicates to me across space I… — D. H. Lawrence

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