Describing Quotes - Page 9

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

  Jon Lester

  Space, Calling, Internet

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• The word hammockable (describing two trees that are the perfect distance apart between which a hammock can be hung) is not in the dictionary, but it should be. [Of lying in hammocks]

  Dan Kieran

  Distance, Lying, Two

  Dan Kieran, Tom Hodgkinson (2012). “The Book of Idle Pleasures”, p.194, Random House

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• I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin

  Anne Tyler

  Character, Writing, Two

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• My other car is a vehicle with a bumper sticker describing this car.

  Damien Fahey

  Car, Bumper Sticker, Vehicle

  Twitter post from Apr 25, 2013

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• Trying to explain or define grace is like catching the wind in a cardboard box or describing the color green.

  Cathleen Falsani

  Color, Wind, Grace

  Cathleen Falsani (2008). “Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he closes his eyes. For instance: you will capture the truth of a moonlit night if you'll write that a gleam like starlight shone from the pieces of a broken bottle, and then the dark, plump shadow of a dog or wolf appeared. You will bring life to nature only if you don't shrink from similes that liken its activities to those of humankind.

  Anton Chekhov

  Dog, Writing, Eye

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• But psychology is a more tricky field, in which even outstanding authorities have been known to run in circles, 'describing things which everyone knows in language which no one understands'.

  Raymond Cattell

  Running, Circles, Psychology

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• I don't like people to feel completely described by the clothes they wear of mine. I want them to feel that they're describing themselves.

  Isaac Mizrahi

  Artist, Swag, Clothes

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• When I write about "realizations," I am describing a state in which a practitioner has wisdom of who she or he is, and has embodied that wisdom; it has become integrated into daily life, thoughts, and activities. We often view "awakening" as first step towards such realization. Awakening can occur in the blink of an eye, frequently through the direct, heart-opening (heart-breaking) transmission of grace from an awakened teacher.

  Russell Targ

  Teacher, Writing, Heart

  Russell Targ (2010). “Limitless Mind: A Guide to Remote Viewing and Transformation of Consciousness”, p.15, New World Library

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• Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient—dealing with it by making statements about it, authorizing views of it, describing it, by teaching it, settling it, ruling over it: in short, Orientalism as a Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient.

  Edward Said

  Teaching, Views, Style

  Orientalism introduction (1978)

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• The Old Testament is a chronicle of horrors, describing an egocentric collection of supernatural beings who were always doing rotten things to gentle souls like Job

  John A. Keel

  Bible, Jobs, Supernatural Beings

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• If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags or some mad regime - Pol Pot or others - that had no concern for human beings.

  Dick Durbin

  Believe, Fbi Agents, Mad

  Speech on the Senate floor, www.washingtontimes.com. June 16, 2005.

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• The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death.

  Stanislav Grof

  Gdp, Objectivity, Data

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• Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly real. They come, we imagine, directly to us without human meddling, and they are the most effortless food for the mind conceivable.

  Walter Lippmann

  Real, Printed Word, Yesterday

  "Public Opinion". Book by Walter Lippmann, 1922.

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• We are not only interested in those aspects of the mystery of the Roman Catholic Church which set her apart from the other Christian communities, but also to show how often they are central beliefs by describing what is specifically Catholic in such a way that the partner in dialogue can see, even from his own standpoint, the inner consistency.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Christian, Community, Catholic

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• Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.

  Paul de Man

  Mean, Doe, Language

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• I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe. And respect for the subject, by describing it as it is. A photograph must be responsible to both.

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Thinking, Two

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• 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.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Girl, Kings, Writing

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• I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things.

  Vin Scully

  Baseball, Games, Guy

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• Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor’s New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations.

  Roger Penrose

  Book, Thinking, Views

  "Secrets of the Old One". "Groks Science" with Frank Ling, grokscience.wordpress.com. January 18, 2009.

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• The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Nature, Book, Enchantment

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• It is only when science asks why, instead of simply describing how, that it becomes more than technology. When it asks why, it discovers Relativity. When it only shows how, it invents the atom bomb, and then puts its hands over its eye and says, My God what have I done?

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Eye, Science, Technology

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.219, Ultramarine Publishing

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• Science is really about describing the way the universe works in one aspect or another in all branches of science-how a life-form works, how this works, how that works. ... You have to have a natural curiosity for that.

  Steven Chu

  Science, Curiosity, Branches

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• This is all very fine, but it won't do-Anatomy-botany-Nonsense! Sir, I know an old woman in Covent Garden, who understands botany better, and as for anatomy, my butcher can dissect a joint full as well; no, young man, all that is stuff; you must go to the bedside, it is there alone you can learn disease!
  Comment to Hans Sloane on Robert Boyle's letter of introduction describing Sloane as a 'ripe scholar, a good botanist, a skilful anatomist'.

  Thomas Sydenham

  Science, Men, Garden

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• In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.

  Alvin Toffler

  Change, Communication, Fire

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