Quotes with describe

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  • Quentin Crisp If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Matthew Prior In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
    Matthew Prior
    British diplomat, poet (1664 - 1721)
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  • Cass Sunstein In psychology and behavioral economics, people have shown that if you just describe options in a certain way, or make some features of a situation salient, you can get people to do and even see what you want. You don't have to be a Jedi to manipulate people's attention.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • A. B. Yehoshua Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
    A. B. Yehoshua
    Israeli novelist (1936 - )
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  • John Malkovich It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.
    John Malkovich
    American actor (1953 - )
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  • B. Kevin Turner It's so exciting to be able to talk about Office 365. I can only describe what Office 365 is in sort of two words. You could say technically it's three words. But Office 365, ladies and gentlemen, is nothing but a Google butt-kicker, that's all it is.
    B. Kevin Turner
    American businessman (1965 - )
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • Lord George Byron Let these describe the indescribable.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Plato Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • C. S. Lewis Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bill Walton My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain. I can only describe the pain as being submerged into a vat of scalding acid that has an electric current running through it. And you can never get out, ever.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Bhagavad Gita O Krishna, the stillness of divine union which you describe is beyond my comprehension. How can the mind, which is so restless, attain lasting peace? Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, powerful, violent; trying to control it is like trying to tame the wind.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Jane Austen Sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Camille Paglia The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity, custom, and fear.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Betty Buckley The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.
    Betty Buckley
    American actress and singer (1947 - )
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  • John Cheever The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
    John Cheever
    American writer (1912 - 1982)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo The work of deciding cases goes on every day in hundreds of courts throughout the land. Any judge, one might suppose, would find it easy to describe the process which he had followed a thousand times and more. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Douglas Adams There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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