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Tag Name "Describe" (858)

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How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see.
Umberto Eco
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The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as in the end his response is aiming at.
Ludwig von Mises
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And then there's also this element of - some people would describe it as spirits or a presence that appears when things are very difficult, physically and emotionally. You know, when you're really putting out. So the third man aura is sort of an appearance. It's the yeti.
Anne Bancroft
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I'm very optimistic. I think if you would describe me, my pretty consistent affect is that I'm a pretty happy person.
Anna Quindlen
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When you delegate work to the member of the team, your job is to clearly frame success and describe the objectives.
Steven Sinofsky
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Quite often, when I describe to people what I want, I'll say overwhelming - I want it to feel like it's phy
Anna Meredith
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I'd describe myself as a pragmatist tinged with idealism.
Vernon A. Walters
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Most papers in computer science describe how their author learned what someone else already knew.
Peter Landin
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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
Vernor Vinge
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The first time I fired up a car, felt the engine shudder and the wheel come to life in my hands, I was hooked. It was a feeling I can't describe. I still get it every time I get into a race car.
Mario Andretti
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I wanted to describe the world at the same time, through image, express what I felt. It was the time of the great documentary filmmakers: Richard Leacock, Joris Ivens. Today, television has put an end to this type of filmmaking.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
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So much there is to see, but our morning eyes describe a different world than do our afternoon eyes, and surely our wearied evening eyes can report only a weary evening world.
John Steinbeck
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A curious thing about atrocity stories is that they mirror, instead of the events they purport to describe, the extent of the hatred of the people that tell them. Still, you can't listen unmoved to tales of misery and murder.
John Dos Passos
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I would describe myself as a budding adventurer. I've transitioned away from being a straight-up backpacker, but I think I need another trip or two to get the adventurer degree.
Andrew Skurka
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There are things you can describe in life and things you just can’t. There are dangers and adventures, miseries and fear that you can tell about… well, then there’s hope and joy and love – and those are beyond the power of words to describe.
Andrew Klavan
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There are things you can describe in life and things you just can’t. There are dangers and adventures, miseries and fear that you can tell about… well, then there’s hope and joy and love – and those are beyond the power of words to describe.
Andrew Klavan
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No words will ever describe the exquisite beauty and charm of this mountain park – Nature’s landscape garden at once tenderly beautiful and sublime. No wonder it draws nature-lovers from all over the world.
John Muir
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There's just something about Highbury that is difficult to describe. When you first arrive, you hardly see the stadium and wonder where it is but then you find it between two blocks of flats
Thierry Henry
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It is the duty of the writer to describe.
Virginia Woolf
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I always let other people describe me because if I describe myself you will not understand.
Carolina Herrera
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If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
W. Edwards Deming
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If I describe a person's physical appearance in my writing, which I often do, especially in fiction, I never say someone is black or white. I may describe the color of their skin - black eyes, beige skin, blue eyes, dark skin, etc. But I'm not talking about race.
Jamaica Kincaid
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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
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