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The Mahabharata was not composed with the aim of describing a battle. The description of the battle serves only as a pretext.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Describing the Internet as the Network of Networks is like calling the Space Shuttle, a thing that flies.
— Jon Lester
I have a very difficult time describing my music.
— Les Claypool
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
For the writer under Actually Existing Socialism describing sex is a simple matter: he simply does not do it (the describing, I mean, not the sex).
— Philip Sington
Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles.
— Tracy Chevalier
You know what I thought of when I saw her? That song, 'Boss's Daughter' by Pop Evil. It's like they're describing her." Scott Mason
— Bella Jeanisse
Beware of men who use words that relate pejoratively to females when describing the 'other side.
— Jane Fonda
PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it.
— Ambrose Bierce
Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.
— Dana Carvey
Writing for children is as easy as describing the history of the Byzantium in three words.
— Mo Willems
Mo'Nique is so full of love. I've been describing her as the tree in 'Pocahontas.' She's so wise and loving. She is just everything.
— Gabourey Sidibe
The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
Younger writers are always looking for "blurbs," one of the few words that sounds exactly as awful as the crime it's describing.
— Brian K. Vaughan
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
When it comes to describing our potential physical and cognitive capacities, we are individuals first, and members of the human race second.
— Alexandra Horowitz
It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself.
— J. Milton Hayes
Only the camera seems to be really capable of describing modern life.
— Alexander Rodchenko
There are people who seem to have no notion of sketching a character, or observing and describing salient points, either in persons or things:
— Charlotte Bronte
A mathematician believes that describing the speed of Mercury with equations amounts to science.
— Bill Gaede
In 2056, I think you'll be able to buy T-shirts on which are printed equations describing the unified laws of our universe.
— Max Tegmark
She had had the pain; it had been like being boiled alive in scalding oil and not being able to die to get free of it
— Betty Smith
I didn't want to go there, to those places he was describing, but I didn't want to be where he wasn't.
— Heather Demetrios
It's like describing music. He cannot bring it to life.
— Khaled Hosseini
Describing Endora is like dancing to no music. It's a town where nothing much ever happens, and nothing much ever will.
— Peter Hedges
Not very tall, not very dark but very...very handsome,' was his way of describing himself.
— Anurag Shourie
All writers are to some extent inventors, describing people as they would like to see them in life.
— Harold Bloom
Murder is a crime. Describing Murder is not. Sex is not a crime. Describing sex is.
— Gershon Legman
True wit is everlasting, like the sun; describing all men, but described by none.
— George Villiers, 1st Duke Of Buckingham
The better and longer way is to describe the experience I want the users to have. That means describing the users' world and how my design fits in.
— Giles Colborne
'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.
— Meghan O'Rourke
I'm never going to write a whole paragraph describing what a living room looks like.
— Steven Amsterdam
Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.
— Thomas Carlyle
English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.
— Rita Mae Brown
It's so glamorous, you have to see it. (describing the $92 million Rock & Roll Hall of Fame)
— Aretha Franklin
I am only describing language, not explaining anything.
— Joseph Kosuth
Prose is all about embellishing and describing.
— Mike Birbiglia
I have trouble describing my own style, since it's sort of like describing my own eye color or something.
— Aimee Bender
Describing colors to a blind is what writing is all about.
— Viraj J. Mahajan
[Describing the soap in the gulag] It smelt as if some sacred physical law had been demeaned in its creation.
— Martin Amis
You know, I'm really not that competent at describing things musically.
— Paul Thomas Anderson
Trying to explain or define grace is like catching the wind in a cardboard box or describing the color green.
— Cathleen Falsani
Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit.
— Caryl Churchill
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
— Stendhal
Words were not just words, describing things a person could see. Even if most did not. Maybe they had to know a thing first, to see it.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Describing yourself by your earthly nativity is carnality. Being born again, your nativity is of divinity.
— Chris Oyakhilome
In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.
— Aleksandar Hemon
The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can't.
— Richard Asher
Describing Robert Bunsen:
As an investigator he was great, as a teacher he was greater, as a man and friend he was greatest. — Henry Enfield Roscoe
As an investigator he was great, as a teacher he was greater, as a man and friend he was greatest. — Henry Enfield Roscoe
Is it me you're describing, or yourself?
— Donna Lynn Hope
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
Judy Blume excels at describing how it feels to be invisible. So how poetic is it that Blume herself is suddenly everywhere?
— Diablo Cody
Kerensky he dismissed in yet another snappy line, describing him as 'a balalaika on which they play to deceive the workers and peasants'.
— Catherine Merridale
I began to formulate a new law describing the relationship of protection to despondency: A sad soul can kill you quicker--far quicker--than a germ.
— John Steinbeck
Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion.
— Georges Braque
The moment i saw you my eyes became a poet describing your flawless beauty, dreaming of you in the boulevard of broken dreams
— Manoj Kumar Duppala
Describing something helps to define it, to give it limits, to set guardrails of understanding around it.
— Jim Butcher
The story was heavy in her hands, the book spread open like legs, the letters very small i spite of describing such a big moment
— Natalia Jaster
I think that leadership more than anything is about setting a course and describing a vision for people.
— Barack Obama
People are already describing it [Skyfall] as the best Bond flick ever, and I really think it will be.
— Naomie Harris
The language we use is extremely powerful. It is the frame through which we perceive and describe ourselves and our picture of the world.
— Iben Dissing Sandahl
Its palliation is a daily task, its cure a fervent hope. - William Castle, describing leukemia in 1950
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
Psychologist Erich Fromm coined the term ["biophilia"] in 1964 as a way of describing the innate attraction to processes of life and growth.
— Adam Leith Gollner
Last night, it was so cold, the flashers in New York were only describing themselves.
— Johnny Carson
He was far more comfortable reading about the lives and ideas of others than describing his own.
— Kate Morton
I'm really, really dumb about describing wine, but I like wine that's full-bodied and dry.
— Esai Morales
There are so many dimensions in my music, and I think mostly what people hear is hope - the describing of experiences and the wonders of life
— Michael Tolcher
My grandma forbid us from describing ourselves as poor. She said, 'we're broke.' Because broke is temporary.
— Deval Patrick
There is no describing the feeling of being mistreated by a successful rival in front of the woman you worship.
— Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a fine addition to the literature of our age?
— Robert Gould Shaw
The truth feels different from other things. The closest you can come to describing it is that it feels like taking a perfect breath.
— David Levithan
Responded with a presidential note describing how Washington defined a "base." Work on the new facility was halted,
— Walter Isaacson
The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.
— Charles Dickens
Discovering new phenomena, but describing those
— Anonymous
Our language for describing emotions is very crude ... that's what music is for, I guess.
— Ben Goertzel
Describing one competitive advantage of IBM's Deep Blue chess computer. It has no fear.
— Yasser Seirawan
I'm really bad at describing my own life.
— Helmut Lang
He had hard, steady eyes, and all the comforting, reassuring charm of a dental drill. - Harry Dresden describing Morgan
— Jim Butcher
[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
— Bernard Berenson
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
Years ago, it had occurred to me that Darwin and Nietzsche agreed on one thing: the defining characteristic of the organism is striving. Describing
— Paul Kalanithi
Face of an angel, voice of a serpent
— Claire C. Riley
In describing someone's character, I reveal my own.
— Mason Cooley