Describing Quotes

Describing Quote of the day

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 market, it is always ourselves that we are describing.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Only the camera seems to be really capable of describing modern life.

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 it should be. [Of lying in hammocks]

Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product.

Gentleness is an active trait, describing the manner in which we should treat others. Meekness is a passive trait, describing the proper Christian response when others mistreat us.

I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things.

Last night, it was so cold, the flashers in New York were only describing themselves.

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 of crawling around, seeing what's out there.

Describing Starry Night: Firmament and planets both disappeared, but the mighty breath which gives life to all things and in which all is bound up remained.

Writing for children is as easy as describing the history of the Byzantium in three words.

I am only describing language, not explaining anything.

The fact that mathematics does such a good job of describing the Universe is a mystery that we don't understand. And a debt that we will probably never be able to repay.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.

Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

In 2056, I think you'll be able to buy T-shirts on which are printed equations describing the unified laws of our universe.

Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit.

Describing yourself by your earthly nativity is carnality. Being born again, your nativity is of divinity.

There is no describing the feeling of being mistreated by a successful rival in front of the woman you worship.

When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.

Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.

Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion.

I have trouble describing characters because there is just too much going on in human beings.

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 all the time.

A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust.

women, when describing their roles in their organizations, usually referred to themselves as being in the middle of things. Not at the top, but in the center; not reaching down, but reaching out.

I'll continue on the path I've been taking, feet on the ground, describing people's lives, describing people's emotions, writing from the standpoint of the ordinary people.

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.

There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

We are working on creating self-describing, self-organizing, self-diagnosing and self-repairing networks.

We need faith, not because there are beings who will punish us or reward us, but because gods are a wonderful way of describing things that are happening to us.

Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.

You see that who you are isn't moving in time. Time is describing the incarnations, the packing changes.

Our language for describing emotions is very crude... that's what music is for, I guess.

I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene.

If you've lived through it, you already know there are no words that will ever come close to describing it, and if you didn't - you will never understand.

I honestly don’t know whether I am describing something essential about the way we know God or merely my own weakness of mind.

I like writing in an illustrative, descriptive way. I prefer describing to rather than explaining.

We mute the realization of malevolence- which is too threatening to bear - by turning offenders into victims themselves and by describing their behavior as the result of forces beyond their control.

The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.

Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.

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 appraising and describing the work of other men.

Describing the Internet as the Network of Networks is like calling the Space Shuttle, a thing that flies.

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 "bright and pretty." It's just not that simple.

Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.

You might be a redneck if...you've been on TV more than times describing the sound of a tornado.

As to describing me as an outsider throughout, and an outsider through and through - I have no reason to disagree.

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 that.