Describing Quotes:

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

- Benjamin Stone

source: "Benjamin Stone | Interview by Ocean Pleasant, Youth Editor". Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Love Is, Thinking, Describing

I've referred to [Marcus Lemonis] as my celebrity crush. I'm totally describing my celebrity crush, and that was not the question. But I am a fan of his. I really am.

- June Diane Raphael

topic: Crush, Fans, Describing

I may sound douchey describing myself, but I can live with myself and no one gets yelled at.

- Kevin Biegel

source: "The Showrunner Transcript: Cougar Town's Bill Lawrence and Kevin Biegel on the Show's Transformation and Masturbating Time Travelers". Interview with Josef Adalian, www.vulture.com. May 18, 2011.

topic: Sound, May, Describing

'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.

- Meghan O'Rourke

topic: Grief, Description, Describing

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

- Richard Asher

source: British Medical Journal 2: 359 (1959)

topic: Greek, Modern, Describing

I am only describing language, not explaining anything.

- Joseph Kosuth

topic: Language, Explaining, Describing

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

- Alexander Rodchenko

topic: Cameras, Modern Life, Describing

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

- Garry Winogrand

source: Source: www.americansuburbx.com

topic: Wells, Describing, Happens

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?"

- David Brooks

source: "Ask the Author Live: David Brooks on the Composure Class". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. January 7, 2011.

topic: Trying, Very Good, Describing

While I am describing to you how Nature works, you won't understand why Nature works that way. But you see, nobody understands that.

- Richard P. Feynman

source: Richard P. Feynman (2014). “QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter”, p.10, Princeton University Press

topic: Way, Describing

In describing someone's character, I reveal my own.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Character, Describing, My Own

I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which we prove, and which we describe grandiloquently as our "creations," are simply the notes of our observations.

- G. H. Hardy

source: G. H. Hardy (1992). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.123, Cambridge University Press

topic: Lying, Believe, Reality, Mathematics And Science, Observing

If words were adequate to describe fully what the dance can do, there would be no reason for all the mighty muscular effort, the discomfort, the sweat and the splendors of that art.

- Jose Limon

topic: Art, Sweat, Effort, Sweating, Describing

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

- George Orwell

topic: Men, Obesity, Robust, Fat Man, Describing

It is impossible to describe a landscape so validly as to exclude all other descriptions, for no one can see the landscape in all its aspects at the same time, and no single view can prevent the existence and validity of other equally possible views.

- Frithjof Schuon

topic: Views, Landscape, Impossible, Describing

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

topic: Giving, Sticks, Designer, Incompleteness, Undefined

People have the idea that an image must stand for something else, that the real meaning needs to be described with language. Instead it is the image itself that is the meaning.

- Mark Ryden

topic: Real, Ideas, People, Surrealism, Describing

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.

- Yehuda Amichai

topic: Intelligent, Artist, Doctors, Describing, Intelligent Person

The designer's role in the development, application and protection of the trademark may be described as pre-creative, creative and post-creative.

- Lester Beall

topic: Creative, Roles, Development, Creativeness, Trademarks

Leadership is an elusive concept, hard to describe and impossible to prescribe. It is more evident in its absence, so that when leadership is needed, its lack is sorely felt.

- Patrick Dodson

topic: Leadership, Impossible, Absence, Lack Of Leadership, Elusive

Despite all the videos you see from the Ministry of Defence or the Pentagon, and all the sanitised language describing smart bombs and pinpoint strikes, the scene on the ground has remained remarkably the same for hundreds of years. Craters. Burned houses. Mutilated bodies. Women weeping for children and husbands. Men for their wives, mothers children.

- Marie Colvin

source: "Marie Colvin: 'Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice'" by Marie Colvin, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2012.

topic: Mother, Husband, Children, Wife Mother, Craters

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.

- Vincent Van Gogh

topic: Life, Night, Giving, Starry Night, Describing

You say the character [of Leo Bloom] was meek and insecure, and you could've been describing me as well. I was a very shy person in those days, and working with Zero [Mostel], who was bigger than life, helped me grow. Zero was a strong influence on me.

- Gene Wilder

source: Source: keranews.org

topic: Strong, Zero, Character, Describe Me, Describing

Enchanting is not the word that would immediately spring to mind when describing a play that deals with fractal geometry, iterated algorithms, chaos theory and the second law of thermodynamics, but it is a perfect fit for Tom Stoppard's astonishing 1993 play, which is as beautiful as it is brilliant. This is one Stoppard drama that you don't have to be Einstein to understand -- you can feel it as well as think it. (...) Breathtaking, exhilarating and deeply satisfying.

- Lyn Gardner

topic: Beautiful, Spring, Drama, Fractals, Thermodynamics

I'm telling as an actual source to the press,I'm telling you as a source that, to the best of my knowledge, and based on conversations that the RNC has had with the FBI, I know of no instance that [George Stephanopoulos] describing involving the RNC or the RNC's data.

- Reince Priebus

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Data, Conversation, Source, Describing

As for whether genre considerations influence what I write, they don't at all, but I might sell more books if they did. The Night Journal is a hodge-podge of historical fiction, western, mystery, and contemporary domestic drama. It doesn't settle into a specific market, reviewers have a hard time describing it, and sometimes it gets classified weirdly in bookstores. But from a writer's standpoint, I like that it's hard to categorize.

- Elizabeth Crook

source: Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com

topic: Drama, Book, Writing, Describing, Historical Fiction

The problem with describing poets as legislators is that at that level of politics - politics as political invention - poets have no special skills and are not apt to.

- Robert Hass

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Skills, Political, Special, Describing

If I had to choose between the two ways of approaching the deity, I should prefer the existential relational way, to the abstract philosophical way. I think it is truer, or in any case, less misleading, to say that God is an old Jew with a white beard whom I love, than to say that God is the ground of being and meaning, or to say that God is a name denoting the ultimate mystery. I prefer the bold primitive colors of the Biblical way of describing God.

- Frank Moore Cross

topic: Philosophical, Biblical, Thinking, Describing

In general, the attitude towards Nazi Germany was not that hostile, especially if you look at the U.S. State Department reports. In 1937 the State Department was describing Adolf Hitler as a "moderate" who was holding off the forces of the right and the left.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Source: thehumanist.com

topic: Attitude, Germany, Looks, Describing

David Foster Wallace is a big idol of mine. His writing is so clear that for years I'd read him and think, My God, he is actually writing the way I think. He's describing the thoughts in my head. And then I realized, No, wait. He's just such a good writer, so transparent and articulate, that when he describes his thoughts, I think they're my own.

- Damian Kulash

source: "Damian Kulash of OK Go: On Creativity, Design, and Activism". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Writing, Thinking, Years, Describing

I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin and then in the act of confession I beg for your forgiveness and redemption.

- Aleksandar Hemon

topic: Games, Path, Redemption, Describing

The closest I can get to describing what happens is that voices come to me. I feel like I'm accessing something that is deeper and richer than me.

- Kate DiCamillo

source: Source: www.teachingbooks.net

topic: Voice, Deeper, Feels, Describing

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.

- Tony Burke

topic: Government, Challenges, Debt, Describing

When in doubt, the rule of threes is a rule that plays well with all of storytelling. When describing a thing? No more than three details. A character's arc? Three beats. A story? Three acts. An act? Three sequences. A plot point culminating in a mystery of a twist? At least three mentions throughout the tale. This is an old rule, and a good one. It's not universal - but it's a good place to start.

- Chuck Wendig

topic: Writing, Character, Play, Describing

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

- Susan Fiske

topic: Thinking, Differences, People, Describing

When I returned to short stories, I'd started working on what is still central to much of what I try to do: putting myself in the place of the alien rather than describing it from an outside point of view.

- Karin Tidbeck

source: Source: www.raintaxi.com

topic: Views, Trying, Stories, Describing

I certainly don't feel like I have a monopoly on [opinions] because I have the job at FOX - any one of a thousand people could have the job. There are people out there that have just as educated an opinion on what I'm calling or describing as I do.

- Joe Buck

source: Source: thebiglead.com

topic: Describing

I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle-dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travellers I have spoken concerning them, describing their tracks and what calls they answered to. I have met one or two who had heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud, and they seemed as anxious to recover them as if they had lost them themselves.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.10, Courier Corporation

topic: Horse, Clouds, Turtles, Tramps, Describing

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

- Zygmunt Bauman

source: Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

topic: Outsiders, Reason, Describe Me, Describing

I hate the word juicy in describing anything: lips, plots, oranges. But especially novels. It feels - icky. Reminds me of saliva.

- Lauren Grodstein

source: Source: www.salon.com

topic: Hate, Orange, Plot, Saliva, Describing

My feeling is, if I can describe the way a steak looks on the plate, when it's just kind of juices are coming out, and it's almost alive, and just wants to be eaten, I hope that people will feel it, more than they will feel me describing the tangy minerality of the dry-aged beef between my teeth.

- Pete Wells

topic: People, Feelings, Beef, Describing

I'm really, really dumb about describing wine, but I like wine that's full-bodied and dry.

- Esai Morales

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Stupid, Wine, Dumb, Really Dumb, Describing

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.

- Pamela Stephenson

topic: Pain, Husband, Childhood, Describing

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.

- Naomi Weisstein

topic: World, Psychologist, Found, Infallibility, Describing

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.

- Mercedes Lackey

topic: Character, Thinking, Impact, Describing

I use a lot of similes and metaphors when I work, simply because it's my best way of describing a building or a scene. I'm terrible at describing landscapes - trees, buildings. The inanimate things don't interest me: I always think, "Oh, no, here comes another building I have to describe." So I usually use a simile or metaphor.

- Robert Cormier

source: Source: www.teachingbooks.net

topic: Thinking, Tree, Use, Describing

The goal in blogging/ business/ inspiring non-fiction is to share a truth, or at least a truth as the writer sees it. To not just share it, but to spread it and to cause change to happen. You can do that in at least three ways: with research (your own or reporting on others), by building and describing conceptual structures, or with stories that resonate.

- Seth Godin

topic: Goal, Three, Fiction, Describing, Three Ways

A mathematician believes that describing the speed of Mercury with equations amounts to science.

- Bill Gaede

topic: Believe, Mercury, Speed, Describing

Jim Pagliaroni joined the club tonight and is going to be a welcome addition. He was describing a girl that one of the ballplayers had been out with and said, “It's hard to say exactly what she looked like. She was kind of Joe Torre with tits.” This joke can only be explained with a picture of Joe Torre. But I'm not sure any exist. He dissolves camera lenses.

- Jim Bouton

topic: Girl, Cameras, Lenses, Torres, Camera Lenses

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.

- Antony Garrett Lisi

topic: Motivation, Inspiration, Mean, Quantum Mechanics, Describing

You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them you are only inventing your own terms about them. And just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth.

- Humphrey Carpenter

source: Humphrey Carpenter (1977). “Tolkien: A Biography”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

topic: Stars, Moving, Ideas, Naming Things, Describing

Modern physics is describing what the ancient wisdom keepers of the Americas have long known. These shamans, known as 'the Earthkeepers,' say that we’re dreaming the world into being through the very act of witnessing it. Scientists believe that we’re only able to do this in the very small subatomic world. Shamans understand that we also dream the larger world that we experience with our senses.

- Alberto Villoldo

source: Alberto Villoldo (2010). “Courageous Dreaming: How Shamans Dream the World Into Being”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Dream, Believe, Long, Modern Physics, Ancient Wisdom

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

- Ambrose Bierce

source: Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.172, 谷月社

topic: Unexpected, Persons, Beneficial, Describing

You might be a redneck if...your belt buckle weighs more than three pounds.

- Jeff Foxworthy

topic: Redneck, Three, Might, Condiments, Ketchup

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

- Chris Oyakhilome

topic: Divinity, Born Again, Describe Yourself, Carnality, Describing

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

- Jonathan Ive

source: "The Chasm of Dissonance: Explaining the 'dis-connects' that seem to haunt our world (Including the ones named Trump and Clinton)" by Michael Lissack, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 13, 2016.

topic: Simplicity, Design, Purpose, Product Design, Describing