Descriptive Words Quotes

#1. I won't say the pain was indescribable, since there are plenty of good descriptive words: excruciating, agonizing, unbearable, and so on.

Jeff Strand

#2. I could be described, sure, with words like cool guy or, again, cool incarnate, rebel, badass, whatever, but I viewed these as just descriptive words . . . they serviced me; I no longer was defined by any of them, and I no longer sought to become the definition of anything other than myself.

A.D. Aliwat

#3. Presidents, whether things are good or bad, get the blame. I understand that.

George W. Bush

#4. Words have a universe of qualities other than those of descriptive relation: Hardness, Density, Sound-Shape, Vector-Force, & Degrees of Transparency/Opacity.

Clark Coolidge

#5. I enjoyed having a reputation as being wild, but these days I try not to worry about what people think in the privacy of their own brain or what they write in the bizarre publicity of their own newspapers, because all of those things are meaningless.

Russell Brand

#6. If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea ...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#7. [Y]ou were too alert to the figurative possibilities of words not to see the phrase [angle of repose] as descriptive of human as well as detrital rest. As you said, it was too good for mere dirt; you tried to apply it to your own wandering and uneasy life ... I wonder if you ever reached it.

Wallace Stegner

#8. When I chose to leave a career as a young lawyer in Washington to move to Arkansas to marry Bill and start a family, my friends asked, 'Are you out of your mind?'

Hillary Clinton

#9. The words came so fast they seemed to roll down hill. Nobody ever calls it all that; it's just spring wheat, but I like the words. They heap up and make a picture of a spring that's slow to come, when the ground stays frozen late into March and the air is raw, and the skies are sulky and dark

Mildred Walker

#10. Plus he was naturally lucky at cards. As Mam had always said, lucky at cards, or lucky at life. One or the other. Not both.

Cinda Williams Chima

#11. The last few years haven't been as good so I can fly under the radar, come in and do the best I can and I don't have all these high hopes placed on me.

Katie Hoff

#12. Commonsense will never come from following your heart; wisdom is only stored in the mind.

Shannon L. Alder

#13. Just don't let the hype of what people are saying and how much they love you, y'know, just take the compliment and be thankful that people are complimenting you, but don't let it consume you; don't let your circumstances around you and the way people view you make you act a certain way.

Mary J. Blige

#14. If you need to conceal your true nature to get in the door, understand that you'll probably have to conceal your true nature to keep that job.

Seth Godin

#15. She had large, questioning eyes that seemed to draw me in and a sense of quiet outrage that simmered just beneath the surface. More than anything, within her features, there was a streak of wild quirkiness that made her dazzlingly attractive.

Jasper Fforde

#16. Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me.

Dennis Bergkamp

#17. When you have girl children they torture you!

Pat Benatar

#18. Sometimes even hearing a bad idea is a great way to get to a good idea.

Charlie Day

#19. His voice was like the cracking of ice on a winter lake, and the words were mocking

George R R Martin

#20. When I reach puberty I'm definitely going to grow a beard.

Max Beesley

#21. It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.

Vernon Howard

#22. You know how on the evening news they always tell you that the stock market is up in active trading, or off in moderate trading, or trading in mixed activity, or whatever. Well, who gives a

Dave Barry