Describe Quotes
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Of the Logos which is as I describe it men always prove to be uncomprehending, both before they have heard it and when once they have heard it. For although all things happen according to this Logos, they [men] are like people of no experience, even when they experience such words and deeds as I explain, when I distinguish each thing according to its constitution and declare how it is; but the rest of men fail to notice what they do after they wake up just as they forget what they do when asleep.
Heraclitus -
I don't know how you describe it or what words you put to it. It's almost unbelievable.
Curtis Martin
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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 -
I have done my best to this single end, to aid as many as possible in a very recondite as well as laborious matter, and truly and completely to describe the structure of the human body which is formed not of ten or twelve parts - as it may seem to the spectator - but of some thousands of different parts.
Andreas Vesalius -
The similarity between the big directors I've worked with is that they allow the writer to find a way of doing what they want done without saying 'do it this way.' They describe what they want, then letting the writer figure out a way to do it.
Steven Zaillian -
You will meet their children through their eyes. One of the most poignant moments is when I asked each to describe the moment they found out their child had been killed. So this is a very personal side to each one of these mothers "Mothers of the Movement".
Ed Gordon -
Describe snow to someone who's lived in the desert. Depict the colour blue for a blind man. Almost impossible to fashion the word.
Andrea Levy -
One feels 'the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech' in trying to describe things intangible.
Ernest Shackleton
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I'll never forget the moment I became a dad. It's hard to describe-that level of responsibility, the desire to give such joy, the clarity: Nothing is more important than this.
Tom Cruise -
I liked his richness of feeling. I don't know how else to describe it. No matter what he was doing, he felt it. He just seemed so open.
Keanu Reeves -
Looking back at my career, if there's one word that most people use to describe me, it's intense.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa -
The words graphic designer, architect, or industrial designer stick in my throat, giving me a sense of limitation, of specialisation within the specialty, of a relationship to society and form itself that is unsatisfactory and incomplete. This inadequate set of terms to describe an active life reveals only partially the still undefined nature of the designer.
Alvin Lustig -
I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.
Richard Powers -
Kate, don't be like that. You know I only did so well because I yearn-see, SAT word- to follow you to college and steal your heart." "Uh-huh. Too bad for you I don't plan on attending clown college." He grinned. "Only you would ignore the incredibly sweet thing I just said." "Only you would describe one of your asinine comments as incredibly sweet.
Elizabeth Scott
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I don't think that crazy should have a negative connotation - it just means that you're fun. I think that crazy is just a term that boring people use to describe fun people.
Jenny Mollen -
'Widow' is a word I never thought would describe me, but I had to learn to deal with that.
Eve Arden -
You describe your reality in the highest resolution even when it’s a nightmare and in doing so, you live your own life, not a cliche others have formulated for you.
David Grossman -
Plus Ginnifer’s Sexoskeleton, which would take way too long to describe.
Charlie Jane Anders -
The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.
Thomas Carlyle -
War is such a peculiar thing - inaugurated by the whims of few, affecting the fate of many. It is difficult, if not impossible, thing to understand, yet we feel compelled to describe it as though it has meaning - even virtue. It starts for reasons often hopelessly obscure, meanders on, then stops.
Errol Morris
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I can’t describe reality; at the most, I can try to capture things that seem to be valid, the way I see them.
Anders Petersen -
I've never felt invincible. I've never used that word to describe me ever.
Serena Williams -
The resulting sound wasn't quite a squawk, wasn't quite a yelp, wasn't quite a gasp. As best she could describe it, it sounded like an angry chicken slapping a puppy with a fish.
Ari Marmell -
It's a truly mysterious and marvelous phenomenon. It's hard to describe.
Chip Taylor