Quotes About Describe

I remember being taken to visit houses by my father, who then tested my powers of observation by expecting me to describe the things I had seen... Unusual furniture always seemed easier to remember than other things.

Well, let us say inexplicable. There is no point in using the word impossible to describe something that has clearly happened. But it cannot be explained by anything we know.

seldom traveled. Not really. Travel was too damn unpredictable. Instead, they contrived daydreams. They chose template fictions that matched, or came close enough to, the vacation they wanted to describe to their friends back home.

You cannot describe the beauty of nature in words, you cannot capture the feeling of God in camera. Its about the moment you set yourself free and live it.

Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it.

We can only describe actual performance goals that are realistic

it is a journey to the language that can describe what is so hard to utter.

It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt.

Language lacks the power to describe Faith.

A poet does not see or hear or feel things that others do not see or hear or feel. What makes a person a poet is the ability to recall what she has felt and seen and heard. And to relive it and describe it in such a way that others can then see and feel and hear again what they may have missed.

I'm not sure it is possible to describe just how hard it is to acquire a reputation as a drunk in Russia.

Into one docile river, I heaved the non-word Shadowlawn. Lettering upward, cheerful as a duck, the log did not sink but happily bobbed elsewhere as if seeking finer property to describe.

As soon as you define what an assault weapon is, you know, you can't sell a weapon, and here's how we describe it, gun manufacturers just make one adjustment or two, and they say, 'See, this isn't subject to the limitation.'

The arrogance of metaphor when facts save people's lives. The succour of metaphor when facts inadequately describe people's lives.

Strong-willed, intelligent, sharp-tongued, doesn't suffer fools gladly . . . remind you of anyone?" "Yes. Gordon." "Interesting," said the man. "Because those are the exact same words he used to describe you.

What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns.

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.

Tell me every detail. All but the dull parts, I mean.

It's a weird thing, my shows. I don't know how to describe it, but I feel because I go about the casting process so slowly that it does feel like an instant family.

It's obviously presumptuous in some ways to talk about somebody's sexuality who's not here to describe themselves.

The American writer has his hands full, trying to understand and then describe and then make credible much of American reality.

It is not at all antisemitic to describe a state as racist.

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.

Every system is built from a domain-specific language designed by the programmers to describe that system. Functions are the verbs of that language, and classes are the nouns.