Describe Quotes

It is impossible to devise a scientific experiment to describe the creation process, or even to ascertain whether such a process can take place. The Creator does not create at the whim of a scientist.
Henry M. Morris

Impossible, Place, Whether

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
Henry Fielding

Men, Individual, Manners

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.
Robert Morgan

Home, Thought, Until

I will go to the next election saying to Australians, vote for me, vote for the Liberal Party, and I will become your PM. So I'm offering myself as the alternative PM - that's one way people describe the Leader of the Opposition - but I'm not in politics for myself to realize a personal ambition.
Malcolm Turnbull

Politics, Saying, Leader

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Books, United, Works

Words are impotent to describe certain emotions.
Ella Maillart

Words, Emotions

Sarcasm is weird. Even not in acting, in life I feel like 'sarcastic' is a word that people use to describe me sometimes so when I meet someone, it's almost like they feel like they have to also be sarcastic, but it can sometimes just come off as mean if it's not used in the right way.
Aubrey Plaza

Life, Someone, Mean

I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.
Werner Herzog

Human, Literature, Condition

It would be far to general a statement to try and describe the daily life of an actor in Hollywood, but I am quite certain that cappucinos have something to do with it.
Corin Nemec

Life, Daily, Try

The Connection Machine was the most powerful supercomputer in the world. It is a complex supercomputer and it will take forever to completely describe how it works.
Philip Emeagwali

Powerful, Forever, Works

If you were to describe me as teetotal, on behalf of my constituency I'd have to sue; that would lose me every vote in the Highlands.
Charles Kennedy

Vote, Lose, Behalf

I would never describe Charlotte as a prude - maybe at the start, but that was in comparison to the other girls. She wasn't willing to do the stuff they were doing - and I mean, thank goodness!
Kristin Davis

Mean, Start, She

At one point, they offered me this part to play a drug-dealing, gun-selling butch lady. I don't know how to describe her but she had like a crew cut and stuff. I was like, 'Is this a joke?' And they said, 'No, we think it would be great because everyone would be like, 'Oh, look at what we've done to Charlotte.' I was like, 'Well I can't do that!'
Kristin Davis

Great, Done, Play

Minimal is the word I'd use to describe how I live and dress, and it's also how I sing. I'm not a big fan of overemoting.
K. D. Lang

Live, Big, Word

'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
Ugo Betti

Nothing, Else, Mad

We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world.
Bruce Jackson

Trying, Action, Three

All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father's peculiarly aggressive comic style. I recently settled on 'defamatory.'
Martin Amis

Life, Father, Style

I think that we have to do our job well, investigate thoroughly and then describe very honestly what we see to the Security Council. And some of the things might please people there and other things may not please the people.
Hans Blix

Job, May, Might

The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.
Lee Strasberg

Try, Blood, Actor

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.
Steve Hackett

Music, Hard, Making

If I had to describe myself to an alien I'd say I was bigger than the average human, enjoy a drink or two with a good meal and have a bigger head than most. I'd also say I'm really handsome - especially if they were a female alien.
Dwayne Johnson

Good, Human, Enjoy

To really be tortured by a song, it needs to be more than just something you don't like or don't get; it has to make your skin crawl by getting under it. Strangely, that last clause could describe provocative or daring music, as well.
Carrie Brownstein

Music, Last, Song

A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
Yann Martel

Movie, Second, Image

I believe the way I describe the problems in Chicago is that it's a metropolitan area. I've said that everywhere. The uneducated child is not just my problem, it's the state's problem. It's also the federal government's problem.
Richard M. Daley

Government, Problem, Said

Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.
Wilhelm Dilthey

Nature, Human, Reality

There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic and is very challenging to describe.
Jerry B. Jenkins

Place, Knowing, Action

If you're a journalist - and I think, on some level, I'm a journalist, and proud to be a journalist, or a documentarian, however you want to describe it - part of what I do has to be the pursuit of the truth.
Errol Morris

Truth, Proud, Level

Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.
Robert Palmer

Trying, Difficult, Dancing

I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'
Felicity Jones

Rock, Chick, Ladylike

I don't quite know what a record is anymore. I don't quite know how to describe it. Don't know how to define it yet, so I'm just letting it gestate, and grow and see if maybe I'll get a better sense of what a record is.
Michael Nesmith

Sense, Quite, Grow

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