Overly Descriptive Quotes

#1. All this happened in much less time than it takes to tell, since I am trying to interpret for you into slow speech the instantaneous effect of visual impressions.

Joseph Conrad

#2. Good writing should be grasped at once - in a second.

Francine Prose

#3. I am a very judgmental person. Of myself and other people. I recognise it's a great fault, but I have no power over that.

Richard E. Grant

#4. At the end of the day, anything I think I'm sacrificing I'm just giving up because it makes me feel better.

Robert Downey Jr.

#5. I didn't understand this overwhelming attraction to a boy I just met, but one thing was sure: I was slowly, but deeply, falling for him.

Priya Kanaparti

#6. Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust.

Rajneesh

#7. It's the same at a rock-and-roll concert. You have an opening number with a strong entrance; then you go through a lot of the old standards, building up to your hit song at the end.

Marjoe Gortner

#8. With much prayer, more grace abounds for every good work.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. There is an invisible hand at work in the making of beautiful lives.

Bryant McGill

#10. You have no shame for ruining my shoes, nyet? If it weren't so difficult to replace shoes here in the middle of nowhere, I would let you stomp on the tops of all of them, but such is not the case. If they are ruined, I must go without."
"A barefoot prince? That sounds like a bad Italian opera.

Karen Hawkins

#11. Detroit's political leadership is a parasite that has outgrown its host.

Kevin D. Williamson

#12. And the boys were behind me, a tide-wall of laughter and yelling, hugging my legs, tripping and grabbing, leaping, spinning, stumbling, roaring, shrieking and the boys shouted I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU and their voice was the life and song of their mother. Unfinished. Beautiful. Everything.

Max Porter

#13. Be not afraid of absurdity; do not shrink from the fantastic. Within a dilemma, choose the most unheard-of, the most dangerous solution. Be brave, be brave.

Isak Dinesen