Describing Quotes - Page 2

• I may sound douchey describing myself, but I can live with myself and no one gets yelled at.

  Kevin Biegel

  Sound, May, I Can

  "The Showrunner Transcript: Cougar Town's Bill Lawrence and Kevin Biegel on the Show's Transformation and Masturbating Time Travelers". Interview with Josef Adalian, www.vulture.com. May 18, 2011.

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• I think there's a huge difference between describing norms in a vivid way and singling out individual people.

  Susan Fiske

  Thinking, Differences, People

  "We talked to the scientist at the center of a brutal firestorm in the field of psychology". Interview with Rafi Letzter, www.businessinsider.com. September 26, 2016.

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• When I returned to short stories, I'd started working on what is still central to much of what I try to do: putting myself in the place of the alien rather than describing it from an outside point of view.

  Karin Tidbeck

  Views, Trying, Stories

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• While I am describing to you how Nature works, you won't understand why Nature works that way. But you see, nobody understands that.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Way

  Richard P. Feynman (2014). “QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter”, p.10, Princeton University Press

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• I certainly don't feel like I have a monopoly on [opinions] because I have the job at FOX - any one of a thousand people could have the job. There are people out there that have just as educated an opinion on what I'm calling or describing as I do.

  Joe Buck

  Jobs, People, Foxes

  Source: thebiglead.com

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• I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle-dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travellers I have spoken concerning them, describing their tracks and what calls they answered to. I have met one or two who had heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud, and they seemed as anxious to recover them as if they had lost them themselves.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Horse, Clouds, Turtles

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• As to describing me as an outsider throughout, and an outsider through and through - I have no reason to disagree.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Outsiders, Reason, Describe Me

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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• I hate the word juicy in describing anything: lips, plots, oranges. But especially novels. It feels - icky. Reminds me of saliva.

  Lauren Grodstein

  Hate, Orange, Plot

  Source: www.salon.com

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• My feeling is, if I can describe the way a steak looks on the plate, when it's just kind of juices are coming out, and it's almost alive, and just wants to be eaten, I hope that people will feel it, more than they will feel me describing the tangy minerality of the dry-aged beef between my teeth.

  Pete Wells

  People, Feelings, Beef

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I'm really, really dumb about describing wine, but I like wine that's full-bodied and dry.

  Esai Morales

  Stupid, Wine, Dumb

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.

  Pamela Stephenson

  Pain, Husband, Childhood

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• Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.

  Naomi Weisstein

  Nature, World, Psychologist

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• I've referred to [Marcus Lemonis] as my celebrity crush. I'm totally describing my celebrity crush, and that was not the question. But I am a fan of his. I really am.

  June Diane Raphael

  Crush, Fans

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• I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Character, Thinking, Impact

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• 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.

  Robert Cormier

  Thinking, Tree, Use

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The goal in blogging/ business/ inspiring non-fiction is to share a truth, or at least a truth as the writer sees it. To not just share it, but to spread it and to cause change to happen. You can do that in at least three ways: with research (your own or reporting on others), by building and describing conceptual structures, or with stories that resonate.

  Seth Godin

  Goal, Three, Fiction

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

  Bill Gaede

  Believe, Mercury, Speed

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• Jim Pagliaroni joined the club tonight and is going to be a welcome addition. He was describing a girl that one of the ballplayers had been out with and said, “It's hard to say exactly what she looked like. She was kind of Joe Torre with tits.” This joke can only be explained with a picture of Joe Torre. But I'm not sure any exist. He dissolves camera lenses.

  Jim Bouton

  Girl, Cameras, Lenses

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• Everything that can happen, does. That's quantum mechanics. But this does not mean everything happens. The rest of physics is about describing what can happen and what can't.

  Antony Garrett Lisi

  Motivation, Inspiration, Mean

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• You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them you are only inventing your own terms about them. And just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth.

  Humphrey Carpenter

  Stars, Moving, Ideas

  Humphrey Carpenter (1977). “Tolkien: A Biography”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• Modern physics is describing what the ancient wisdom keepers of the Americas have long known. These shamans, known as 'the Earthkeepers,' say that we’re dreaming the world into being through the very act of witnessing it. Scientists believe that we’re only able to do this in the very small subatomic world. Shamans understand that we also dream the larger world that we experience with our senses.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Dream, Believe, Long

  Alberto Villoldo (2010). “Courageous Dreaming: How Shamans Dream the World Into Being”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Unexpected, Persons, Beneficial

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.172, 谷月社

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

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Sound, Might

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• Describing yourself by your earthly nativity is carnality. Being born again, your nativity is of divinity.

  Chris Oyakhilome

  Divinity, Born Again, Describe Yourself

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

  Jonathan Ive

  Simplicity, Design, Purpose

  "The Chasm of Dissonance: Explaining the 'dis-connects' that seem to haunt our world (Including the ones named Trump and Clinton)" by Michael Lissack, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 13, 2016.

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