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Acting has been described as farting about in disguise.
— Peter O'Toole
There is a peculiarity in the countenance, as everybody knows, which, though it cannot be described, is sure to betray the Englishman.
— George Henry Borrow
As a self described idealistic I never consider myself as single. I like to say that I'm in between romances at the moment.
— Carl Henegan
In the corporate world, if you have analysts, due diligence, and no horse sense, you've just described hell.
— Charlie Munger
When a man suffers from delusions he is described as mad but when a million do so they belong to a world religion
— Anthony Storr
The act of saying that things exist that cannot be described in words shakes a universe where words are the supreme belief.
— Frank Herbert
The development of the individual can be described as a succession of new births at consecutively higher levels.
— Maria Montessori
Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
— William Butler Yeats
To hear years of one's life, one's passion, described so casually, relegated so absolutely to the past, was breathtaking.
— Kate Morton
My parents lived likeas the neighbours described thema pair of chopsticks, always in harmony.
— Anchee Min
I think that's all a form of wanting to let go, of wanting to get out ... It's not something easily described or understood.
— Marilyn Manson
Words are, quite simply, weapons. How a person or an act or a thought looks depends entirely upon how - and by whom - it is described.
— Carolyn Hart
When you're sentenced to drive a Smart car on a road where everything else has a speed best described by its mach number, you tend to pay attention.
— Charles Stross
I guess the idea of stepping out from behind the "camouflage of routine," as someone once described it, still intimated me.
— Alice Steinbach
Someone once described Ken Lewis to me as the most competitive person in the history of the United States, including the Union Army.
— Charles Duhigg
Someone once described the information business as exactly the opposite of sex. When it's good, it's still lousy.
— Michael Bloomberg
Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.
— Claude Debussy
Someone once described me as a maverick and that's what I would say. I'm a maverick not by choice but by conviction.
— Van Morrison
Britain is doing brilliant things around the world and that is why I described as a 'superpower on development.'
— Andrew Mitchell
It is uplifting to lose one?s faith in a reality which looks the way it is described in a newspaper.
— Karl Kraus
Reagan is described as delivering Barry Goldwater's doctrine with John F. Kennedy's technique.
— H.W. Brands
Discernment can be described as the ability to find the root of the matter, and it relies on intuition as well as rational thought.
— John C. Maxwell
I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A man's character is best described in his epitaph
— Marilyn L. Rice
Either well succeed, or we wont succeed. And the definition of success as I described is sectarian violence down. Success is not no violence.
— George W. Bush
Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
— Wislawa Szymborska
The King's 28 letters have been described by scholars as the world's best alphabet and the most scientific system of writing.
— Jared Diamond
People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too.
— George Carey
Regeneration, however it is described, is a divine activity in us, in which we are not the actors but the recipients.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
Experience is something you have to go through yourself to be able to fully described the act.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
God is not described in equations.
— Sean M. Carroll
Certain gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks.
— Ian Hamilton Finlay
data for transmission. One is described in RFC 1042, and the other
— Matthew S. Gast
My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.
— Arnold Schoenberg
To be described is to be seduced. Shit. One turn of phrase. One thing noticed that she'd never noticed. It works always.
— Dave Eggers
My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective.
— Tim Robbins
I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.
— Gene Tierney
I am annoyed to find myself continually described by people whom I have never set eyes on as bad-tempered.
— Evelyn Waugh
Let me state here and now that the black woman in America can justly be described as a 'slave of a slave.
— Frances M. Beal
Because we're soul mates, just like Aristophanes described- one soul in two bodies. You're my missing half. You're my bashert.
— Sylvain Reynard
Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own - but that we could never have described on our own.
— Alain De Botton
The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.
— Edward Abbey
The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
— Rene Descartes
Under patriarchy the female did not herself develop the symbols by which she is described. As
— Kate Millett
All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
— Albert Einstein
I've made my own music, and the way I've always described it is Peggy Lee with an electric guitar, or Billie Holiday with some PJ Harvey in there.
— Evan Rachel Wood
Miracle: An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.
— Elbert Hubbard
Life has to be described in pure and simple physical and physiological terms. It must be demystified and depsychologised
— U.G. Krishnamurti
Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Fiction described reality better than non-fiction.
— Tommy Wallach
I don't like people to feel completely described by the clothes they wear of mine. I want them to feel that they're describing themselves.
— Isaac Mizrahi
Bentham was an atheist and in no sense of the word could he be described as a theologian.
— James E. Crimmins
And how can someone be described as flawless [or protector] who is not freed from his lower self
— Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali
Humanity is best described as inhumanity.
— Pat Conroy
There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed.
— Garry Winogrand
The traditional face of Africa includes an attitude towards man which can only be described as being socialist
— Kwame Nkrumah
Umpiring is best described as the profession of standing between two seven-year olds with one ice cream cone.
— Ron Luciano
Nothing has really happened unless it's been described [in words].
— Virginia Woolf
I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Italy was the only place I'd visited where people described kitchen implements as having souls of their own.
— Jen Lin-Liu
I have described myself as being 'gently eccentric.'
— Daniel Radcliffe
I have described Swaraj as Ramarajya and Ramarajya is an impossibility unless we have thousands of Sitas.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The way that everyone described me. Why couldn't I be hot? I mean, seriously? For like one day.
— Nicole Hildreth
God has been described by all the scriptures of the world as protector and saviour of the sinner.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Whenever I hear anything described as a heartless assault on our children I tend to think it's a good idea.
— William Kristol
Nature allows only experimental situations to occur which can be described within the framework of the formalism of quantum mechanics
— Werner Heisenberg
The lady is proverbial for her skill in eluding definition ... she may be described merely as the female of the favored social class.
— Emily James Smith Putnam
Larry Wall's classic Programming Perl described the three programmer's virtues: hubris, laziness, and impatience.
— C.J.S. Hayward
Photons are accurately and legitimately described as waves and particles at the same time. They are genuine wavicles.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.
— Margaret Laurence
Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.
— Marcel Duchamp
These years can be both manageable and meaningful - not a "long good-bye" as it's often described, but a "long hello.
— Martha Stettinius
Modern agriculture has been accurately described as a way of turning oil into food. As the price of oil continues to rise, so will the price of food.
— Jeremy Grantham
Whatever our frame of mind, whether ecstasy or depression, David has exactly described our emotions.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
