They Describe Quotes
19 quotes by 19 authors
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue,…
— Nick Clegg
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If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other…
— Jonathan Swift
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The similarity between the big directors I've worked with is that they allow the writer to find a way of doing what they want done…
— Steven Zaillian
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Transformation al leaders don't start by denying the world around them. Instead, they describe a future they'd like to create instead.
— Seth Godin
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No one fully understands spinors. Their algebra is formally understood but their general significance is mysterious. In some sense they describe the 'square root' of…
— Michael Atiyah
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Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the…
— Gore Vidal
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Mixtapes are very personal, and they describe who you are better than an album sometimes.
— Theophilus London
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In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
— Franz Kafka
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I am so afraid of people's words.They describe so distinctly everything: And this they call dog and that they call house, here the start and…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender.
— David Allen
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Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing. We have not fully recognized…
— Marilyn Ferguson
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Billy Collins writes lovely poems. Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and…
— John Updike
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The great help of being in the Army is to understand why are the armies clever in what they describe as emotional intelligence, making soldiers…
— Antony Beevor
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Often you find the character through the things they say. How they talk about other people, how they describe themselves - which is very rare.
— Richard Armitage
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Next to reasoning, the greatest handicap to the optimum development of Man lies in the fact that this planet is just barely habitable. Its minimum…
— James Thurber
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From my poem, these are the words I choose. They describe me, and everything I've been through.
— Leslie
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A project minded individual, criminal tactics. Us black kids born with birth defects, we hyperactive. Mentally sex-crazed, dysfunctional they describe us.
— Nas
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Many people are facing major challenges in their relationships. When they describe to me in painful detail how they must tiptoe through their primary relationships…
— Linda Chandler
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