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The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them. Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places. One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Battle, Else, Fact

I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, every day with a new group of people whom you kind of love and then never see again.
Eddie Redmayne

Love, Movies, Try

Having those extra dimensions and therefore many ways the string can vibrate in many different directions turns out to be the key to being able to describe all the particles that we see.
Edward Witten

Different, Able, Ways

Technically you need the extra dimensions. At first people didn't like them too much, but they've got a big benefit, which is that the ability of string theory to describe all the elementary particles and their forces along with gravity depends on using the extra dimensions.
Edward Witten

Big, Ability, Along

Even now I can't describe why I love skating so much.
Nancy Kerrigan

Love, Why, Skating

I keep saying the word 'weird' over and over again, but it's the only way I can describe it.
Chuck Klosterman

Saying, Keep, Again

I describe myself as a human being.
Jimmy Kimmel

Some writers would be kinder than others, I'm sure. Hopefully they might describe my techniques as a mixture of tried and tested formulas - if it aint broke don't fix it - and unexpected twists.
Paul Kane

Others, Sure, Might

I wouldn't describe that 'position' as 'parasitic.' I'd describe that experience as 'edifying.' I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here.
Bruce Sterling

Experience, Live, Around

My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain. I can only describe the pain as being submerged into a vat of scalding acid that has an electric current running through it. And you can never get out, ever.
Bill Walton

Life, Pain, Through

In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Romantic, Mood, Atmosphere

Any time they try to describe the tsunami to us, I am so touched by how high they look in the air, when they explain it with their hands-they go so high.
Connie Sellecca

Time, Try, High

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

Age, Future, Energy

As for you, my beloved friend, I loyally believe in your uniqueness; but whenever I try to tell to you wherein it consists, I helplessly describe only a type.
Josiah Royce

Friend, Try, Tell

I've always described my taste in fashion and music as being very eclectic and uniquely based off my feelings that day. That's the wonderful thing about style. You can be whatever you want to be. You can describe yourself however you want to describe yourself.
Hayden Panettiere

Music, Yourself, Feelings

I'm not a doctor - so I can't describe flashbacks well - but it is like you're living it again.
Darrell Hammond

Living, Again, Doctor

I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
Dan O'Brien

Time, Good, Trying

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
John Cheever

Rain, Woman, American

To describe the overwhelming life of a tropical forest just in terms of inert biochemistry and DNA didn't seem to give a very full picture of the world.
Rupert Sheldrake

Life, Give, Picture

Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man who does not feel, and describe with rapture, how much he loves his country.
Karl Philipp Moritz

Love, Human, Country

I don't know if there are words to describe my motivation.
Lorrie Fair

Words, Motivation

Savage, despicable evil. That's what we were fighting in Iraq. That's why a lot of people, myself included, called the enemy 'savages.' There really was no other way to describe what we encountered there.
Chris Kyle

Enemy, Evil, Why

I describe my plots as follows; A character is walking down the street when all of a sudden a piano falls on them. They spend the rest of the story digging out from under that piano. How they dig, how long and how well, this all depends entirely on the character.
Sarah Zettel

Character, Long, Down

Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.
Johnny Rotton

Music, Words, Wanted

I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years.
Tom Perrotta

Past, Used, Few

We have a couple of dogs, but I wouldn't describe myself as an animal person.
Pamela Stephenson

Person, Animal, Dogs

It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative.
Jesse Helms

Yourself, Become, Everyone

Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Sex, Woman, Words

What's the shelf life of a 1931 movie? If it still exists, there will always be film buffs and a niche audience who will want to see it. But in terms of people even understanding in common usage, some of the words we use to describe these movies, I don't know how long that's going to last.
Joe Dante

Life, Movies, Long

Raising a daughter is hard work. There's no other way to describe it for me.
Isaiah Mustafa

Work, Hard, Daughter

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