Top 480 Describing Quotes & Sayings

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

I am only describing language, not explaining anything.

tend to be better at describing feelings and ideas, and worse at painting a picture of any physical thing. I have terrible spatial reasoning skills so even if I were describing my girlfriend, whom I see every day, it sound like I was talking about a child's drawing of her. "Very beautiful. Glasses. Brown hair. Super smart brain. Bigger than our dog. Smaller than me".

Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness.

I always have a hard time describing myself.

I have trouble describing my own style, since it's sort of like describing my own eye color or something.

You won't catch Liberal Democrats describing trade unionists as wreckers.

It was amazing to see Donald Trump on the night before election, who had been describing Hillary Clinton as crooked and corrupt, in a matter of a moment, was describing her as a fine and dedicated public servant, once he had won the election. So, there was a kind of barbarism all the way around, I think, in this political campaign, in which the issues really were boiled down to very small sound bites.

True wit is everlasting, like the sun; describing all men, but described by none.

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

[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.

We create truths by describing, or by re-describing , our beliefs and observations. Our task, and the task of every artist and scientist, is to re-describe our inherited assumptions and invented fictions in order to create new paradigms for the future.

You just touch on things. You don't go round the room describing the furniture.

Describing the Internet as the Network of Networks is like calling the Space Shuttle, a thing that flies.

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

I have a very difficult time describing my music.

English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.

In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.

Beware of men who use words that relate pejoratively to females when describing the 'other side.

The Moon is a white strange world, great, white, soft-seeming globe in the night sky, and what she actually communicates to me across space I shall never fully know. But the Moon that pulls the tides, and the Moon that controls the menstrual periods of women, and the Moon that touches the lunatics, she is not the mere dead lump of the astronomist. . . . When we describe the Moon as dead, we are describing the deadness in ourselves. When we find space so hideously void, we are describing our own unbearable emptiness.

Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion.

You might be a redneck if...you've been on TV more than times describing the sound of a tornado.

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.

As I've said repeatedly, Republicans are very good at describing things in black and white; Democrats are very good at describing the 11 shades of gray.

If you're a white candidate, it is twice as important for you to be talking about racial inequity and not just describing the problem - which is fashionable in politics - but actually talking about what we're going to do about it and describing the outcomes we're trying to solve for.

I have trouble actually describing myself because I'm always suspicious of people who start describing themselves. I'm like, "OK, why are you trying to tell me what you are?"

The gloomiest way of describing the ancient world is it is misogyny from A to Z, really.

Prose is all about embellishing and describing.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

It's strictly coincidental that Pluto of course was named for the god of the underworld and we're describing these Halloween moons

I'm really bad at describing my own life.

You know, I'm really not that competent at describing things musically.

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

Americans like to add the word 'super' when they're describing things.

Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit.

I like writing in an illustrative, descriptive way. I prefer describing to rather than explaining.

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

Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have.

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

It is disheartening when you read an interview with an actress, and it starts by describing what she is wearing.

Last night, it was so cold, the flashers in New York were only describing themselves.

I have trouble describing characters because there is just too much going on in human beings.

People are already describing it [Skyfall] as the best Bond flick ever, and I really think it will be.

A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It's a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for me.

I'll continue on the path I've been taking, feet on the ground, describing people's lives, describing people's emotions, writing from the standpoint of the ordinary people.

Gentleness is an active trait, describing the manner in which we should treat others. Meekness is a passive trait, describing the proper Christian response when others mistreat us.

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

Describing something as the 'Woodstock of...' has taken to mean a one-of-a-kind historic gathering.

Describing one competitive advantage of IBM's Deep Blue chess computer. It has no fear.

Murder is a crime. Describing Murder is not. Sex is not a crime. Describing sex is.

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

Writing for children is as easy as describing the history of the Byzantium in three words.

Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is.

Spiritually, I'm a floating entity, but Buddhism is as close as I can get to describing it.

It's so glamorous, you have to see it." (describing the $92 million Rock & Roll Hall of Fame)

Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a stallholder in a market, it is always ourselves that we are describing.

Money is part of how we move through the world, what stores and restaurants we go into, whether we take a train to the airport or a taxi. Describing characters living in the real world requires describing them engaging with money. There are also so many emotional aspects to money - feelings of inadequacy, feelings of security. I am not sure if there needs to be more about money in fiction, but the absence of this aspect can make a story feel somehow frictionless and unreal.

There is no describing the feeling of being mistreated by a successful rival in front of the woman you worship.

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

Our language for describing emotions is very crude... that's what music is for, I guess.