Describable Quotes

#1. a singularity is not even mathematically describable.

Pierre St. Clair

#2. If one faces facts one must admit that nearly everything describable as Socialist literature is dull, tasteless, and bad

George Orwell

#3. Reach isn't describable in terms of cause and effect anymore: it's simultaneous.

Jennifer Egan

#4. The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set ... is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as 'chaos'.

Benoit Mandelbrot

#5. The basis of all true cosmic horror is violation of the order of nature, and the profoundest violations are always the least concrete and describable.

H.P. Lovecraft

#6. The pathway to peace is an in describable journey of facing ones darkness, to find ones light. If they told you it's easier to give up, you met a fool; if they told you; it's easier to grow, you met the wise.

Nikki Rowe

#7. A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.

Rudy Rucker

#8. The named was born from the unnamed ... all being flows from non-being ... the describable world emanates from an indescribable source.

Laozi

#9. It is possible to know when, at least basically, we please God. In fact, Joseph Smith taught that one of the conditions of genuine faith is to have "an actual knowledge that the course of life which [one] is pursuing is according to [God's] will."

Neal A. Maxwell

#10. I can't get rid of the sadness," Laronne said.
"Well," David said, "then we'll just keep it company.

Heidi Durrow

#11. The chips were the enablers, limited pellets of silicon that served an apparently unlimited range of functions, as like a single snackfood delivering the tastes of chocolate, vanilla, pork rind, popcorn, pretzel, and chip in every bitesized bite.

Joshua Cohen

#12. I think it is more of an intuitive, circular kind of personality, for starters. And, as I say of horses, the secret to breeding great horses is the three B's: bones, brains, and balance. If you look at art, it shares some of the same qualities.

Alice Walton

#13. The Gay News critic wrote that I 'carried the lilt of the Irish without the brogue'.

Stephen Fry

#14. What is needed for a sound expansion of production is additional capital goods, not money or fiduciary media. The credit expansion is built on the sands of banknotes and deposits. It must collapse.

Ludwig Von Mises

#15. I will respect everyone, even if they treat me poorly, because I am not responsible for the misguidance of others.

Emma Paul

#16. Let me see a complete reorganization of the North Atlantic fleet's defensive strategy against Nazi U-boats. And if it won't go on one side of one sheet of paper, it hasn't been properly thought out - Winston Churchill.

Patrick Robinson

#17. I really believe the most handicapped [person] in the whole world is a negative thinker.

Heather Whitestone

#18. He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)

Irvin D. Yalom

#19. The gateway to the underworld is seen as part antiquity and part theatre. Welcome to the lower depths.

Peter Ackroyd

#20. Recovery from complete and utter exhaustion facilitates individual creativity

Phillip Gary Smith

#21. the body is only a puppet to the mind

Jay Yang

#22. Ty Cobb was still fighting the Civil War, and as far as he was concerned, we were all damn Yankees. But who knows, if he hadn't had that terrible persecution complex, he never would have been about the best ballplayer who ever lived.

Sam Crawford