"Painting taught literature to describe." — Orhan Pamuk

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• I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does… — Dean Acheson
• There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke… — Margaret Atwood
• Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point… — Simone de Beauvoir
• Stubborn isn't a word I would use to describe myself; pigheaded is more appropriate. — Michael Bloomberg
• In a way song writing can almost be detrimental, because suddenly you find an outlet that is a kind of… — James Blunt
• The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model… — Edward de Bono
• I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it. — Ray Bradbury
• I like that 'Mad Men' is now an adjective I use to describe clothing when I'm shopping: 'I like this… — Alison Brie
• The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people. — Betty Buckley
• To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading. — Jimmy Buffett
• This is exactly how I would describe my work: 'I get there, I put on the clothes, I leave it… — Gisele Bundchen
• Having Down syndrome is like being born normal. I am just like you and you are just like me. We… — Chris Burke

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