Describing Quotes

True wit is everlasting, like the sun; describing all men, but described by none.

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.

Poetry, from describing external events objectively, is becoming subjectified into a poetry of personal conscious expression.

Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is.

People hate to describe their music. What we have come to call it is "beat up your mom" music. As far as describing what it sounds like, I guess you'd have to listen.

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.

Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.

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 of death.

I think there's a huge difference between describing norms in a vivid way and singling out individual people.

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.

Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.

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.

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

It's strictly coincidental that Pluto of course was named for the god of the underworld and we're describing these Halloween moons

As a writer, I never paid much attention to the length of titles. I've just wanted them to communicate the emotional overtones of the content of a record or song that they are describing

He had hard, steady eyes, and all the comforting, reassuring charm of a dental drill. - Harry Dresden describing Morgan

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 Job

Representative Leo J. Ryan understood the manipulation phenomena people were describing to him and he lost his life in a Guyanese jungle investigating how Jim Jones "bent minds.

The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can’t.

Describing one competitive advantage of IBM's Deep Blue chess computer. It has no fear.

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 and what can't.

But in general, for the purposes of most novelists, the number of objects genuinely necessary for. . .describing a scene will be found to be very small.

What men don't want, in fact what anyone who's any sort of thrill-seeking, intelligent adult doesn't want, is some crushing bore describing their emotions in real time every waking hour.

Right now my field must tackle describing a world where falling in love, going to war and filling out tax forms looks the same; it looks like typing.

I'm like John Wayne. I only play good guys. Describing his cameo role on a TV series.

In describing one way of going mad, I shall try to show that there is a comprehensible transition from the sane schizoid way of being-in-the-world to a psychotic way of being-in-the-world.

It's a bit much describing it as a moral challenge from a government that's tripled the deficit and added $100 billion to net debt.

I have trouble actually describing myself because I'm always suspicious of people who start describing themselves. I'm like, "OK, why are you trying to tell me what you are?"

For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.

In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.

PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it.

She was like a heroine in a novel that she herself was writing the character kept protesting that she was too strong for love and yet the narrator went on describing her desire.

It's so glamorous, you have to see it." (describing the $92 million Rock & Roll Hall of Fame)

Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being.

I think that leadership more than anything is about setting a course and describing a vision for people.

I don't think I can get anywhere near to fully describing what love is.

[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.

A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It's a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for me.

I'm not promoting myself as the next great American driver, as some people are describing me. If that's what people want to call me, fine. But I've got more important things to focus on.

When I'm describing wartime activities or violence I don't want to be too ornate, to prettify the picture. Once we trace them to the present, the prose becomes denser.

You won't catch Liberal Democrats describing trade unionists as wreckers.

While I have questions about the language used in describing the two economic systems, I think people have fairly good gut sense of the difference between socialism and capitalism.

The terms socialist and communist are mostly about describing the world we want after capitalism, and I think they are both important.

My other car is a vehicle with a bumper sticker describing this car.

I learned I'm not a science writer. I'm not very good at describing how something is happening. I try to describe "So What?"

The truth feels different from other things. The closest you can come to describing it is that it feels like taking a perfect breath.

Judy Blume excels at describing how it feels to be invisible. So how poetic is it that Blume herself is suddenly everywhere?

Mo'Nique is so full of love. I've been describing her as the tree in 'Pocahontas.' She's so wise and loving. She is just everything.

You've got a lot going for you, you see. By just describing well with it, something happens.