Quotes of: Describing Keyword

Colonel Rolland: [dictating a letter] The plot describes above constitutes, in my view, the most dangerous single conception that the terrorists could possibly have devised to endanger the life of President De Gaulle. If the plot exists as described,...

The Day of the Jackal

There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

I knew why love was always described with eternity. A single minute stretched out for lifetimes.

Death Before Daylight

I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story.

Everything Is Illuminated

Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?

The Forgotten Garden

Only one English word adequately describes his transformation of the islands from worthless to priceless: magical.

Galápagos

Newton was asked as a mathematician, not as a moralist. He replied 'Gentlemen, in applied mathematics, you must describe your unit.

The God of the Machine

The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

The Girl Who Chased the Moon

Gulliver describes a royal personage inspiring awe among the tiny Lilliputians because he was taller than his brethren by the breadth of a human fingernail.

Gulliver's Travels

The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense.

Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide

Where You Hail From Isn't As Important As Who You Are and What You Do...Your Doings Define and Describe You.

The Best Option

I have always had a tremendous amount of energy and any band I was ever in from the age of fourteen, I would always be the one who would describe the future and vibe everyone up.

Jim Capaldi

Some astronauts describe the routine flushing of urine into space, where the freezing temperatures turn the droplets into a cloud of bright, drifting crystals, as being among the most amazing sights they saw on an entire voyage.

Eugene Cernan

Ruby describes the decorations at the banquet. 'It was like little gardens of rhapsody on every table. It was divine.

The Art of Arranging Flowers

I don’t have enough gross words in my gross vocabulary to describe how gross that gross thought is. Gross.

Ask the Passengers

He smiles an honest smile for the first time, and the difference is hard to describe but easy to recognize.

The Space Between

A living poem" had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.

The Notebook

A society, on occasion, can be the worst possible describer of mental health.

Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

The author describes Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn as "seldom at ease without a gavel in his hand.

The Path to Power

I've always been a pretty candid person. I'm not a very secretive person; I'm not a very discreet person. One of my best friends once described me as pathologically indiscreet.

Andrew Sullivan

The best word to describe my father? Thoughtful. There was a tender quality to Dad that his sense of fun could sometimes mask. But, above all, he was sensitive and looked out for those he loved.

Jennifer Grant