Describe Quotes

• I describe things in terms of body movements. I dance a bit to describe what sort of movement it ought to make, and that's a good way of talking to musicians. Particularly bass players.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Describe
  • Movements
  • Bass Players

• Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe.

  

  Nicolaus Copernicus
  • Work
  • Earth
  • Universe

• The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Describe
  • Operation
  • Surgeons

• What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous. You can be cerebral about things you hate, but most of the things you like tend to be very emotive. It's really hard to do a literary reproduction of what makes you happy. That's what I try to do. If nothing else, it seems like there's enough people out there telling the world what isn't cool, or what's terrible, or what's depressing. I think there's an element of cynicism in my writing, but I'm an optimistic cynic.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • World
  • Writing

• Describe a circle, stroke its back and it turns vicious.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Describe
  • Vicious
  • Stroke

• To describe happiness is to diminish it.

  

  Stendhal
  • Happiness
  • Describe
  • Diminish

• The smell of loving is a difficult one to describe, but if you think of the times when someone has held you close and made you safe, you will remember how it smells just as well as I do.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Remember
  • Difficult
  • Loving

• The bottom is a monotonous, dreary, unprofitable place for any person. That is why I have taken the time to describe how lowly beginnings may be circumvented by proper planning.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Time
  • Why
  • May

• I don't know what you wanna describe as Rock 'n' Roll, but I certainly thought that 60s stuff, Bob Dylan and the Beatles, changed the world a little bit. But the effect seems to have retreated. I think it's harder than we think to change the world. These things go in cycles. It doesn't seem to have done an awful lot of good, does it? You know, all the talk of racial harmony and equality in the world... we haven't got a long way since the 60s.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • Stuff
  • Change The World
  • Retreated

• Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Way
  • Condition
  • Mental

• Well if I was going to describe my audience, it's going to take longer than you'd ever expect, hundreds of years in fact, because there's many of them, all over the world.

  

  Norman Wisdom
  • World
  • Audience
  • Describe

• All the categories which we employ to describe conscious mental acts, such as ideas, purposes, resolutions, and so on, can be applied tothese latent states.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Describe
  • Employ
  • Resolutions

• I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.

  

  Bram Stoker
  • Interest
  • Describe
  • Fashions

• But when I dance, it’s incredible. I can’t describe it, there’s no words. You just tap into your mojo and you just go.

  

  Johnny Borrell Razorlight
  • Dance
  • Describe
  • Incredible

• I’m adrift. That’s the feeling I’ve had since setting out today—and, really, for much of this shitburger of a year—and I’ve finally found the word to describe that feeling.

  

  Craig Lancaster
  • Feeling
  • Word
  • Adrift

• Insofar as mathematics is true, it does not describe the real world. Insofar as it describes the real world, it is not true.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • Real
  • True

• Whether sociology can ever become a full-fledged "science" (a description of a class of events predictable on the basis of deductions from a constant rationale) depends on whether the terms which sociologists employ to describe events can be analyzed into quantifiable observables.

  

  Anatol Rapoport
  • Science
  • Sociology
  • Analyzed

• Three simple words can describe the nature of the social revolution that is talking place and what Negroes really want. They are the words "all," "now," and "here."

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Describe
  • Negroes
  • Social Revolution

• I played softball at George Washington University and then I played professionally for the Mid-Michigan Ice. I had a couple of tryouts with the US Olympic Team but I don't know if I have a word to describe how bad one of the tryouts was. It was the worst tryout in the history of tryouts. It was that bad. So I totally bombed it and thought my chances of being an Olympian were over.

  

  Elana Meyers
  • Team
  • Played
  • Chances

• The outstanding feature of behavior is that it is often quite easy to recognize but extremely difficult or impossible to describe with precision.

  

  Anatol Rapoport
  • Behavior
  • Recognize
  • Describe

• But once you describe something, you destroy it.

  

  Barry Webster
  • Destroy
  • Describe

• He who cannot describe the problem will never find the solution to that problem.

  

  Confucius
  • Problem
  • Solution
  • Describe

• And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Language
  • Find
  • Describe

• I don't really know how to describe how I got into music - it kind of just happened.

  

  Lil Yachty
  • Music
  • Got
  • Describe

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