Quotes About Describing A Person

#1. The problems in describing a person are essentially problems of knowing a person.

Donald Antrim

#2. But doing 'Parenthood,' I've never ever been happier in 35 years. I drive to work and I drive home. I'm like a factory worker and that is in my DNA. I love having a steady job with the same people. It's made me so much calmer and more content. Now I just hope the series goes on for 15 years.

Dax Shepard

#3. And we would always be looking for the light ... together.

A Meredith Walters

#4. As fallible humans, we usually slip too far over one edge or the other - all wrath and judgment or all grace and love.

Eric Wilson

#5. Where did you learn that smile? Have you been practicing in front of a holo of Han Solo?
Mara to Luke

Aaron Allston

#6. He started out by saying that people were describing me as a taciturn and withdrawn person and he wanted to know what I thought. I answered, It's just that I don't have much to say. So I keep quiet.

Albert Camus

#7. A painting of a person can be descriptive, but for me it's about all the things that make up a picture - the feelings, the brushstrokes - more than describing somebody. People latch on to the personalities when they talk about my work and forget the other parts.

Elizabeth Peyton

#8. Actually, there is no such thing as a homosexual person, any more than there is such a thing as a heterosexual person. The words are adjectives describing sexual acts, not people. The sexual acts are entirely normal; if they were not, no one would perform them.

Gore Vidal

#9. I left that church with rich and royal hatred of the priest as a person, and a loathing for the church as an institution, and I vowed that I would never go inside a church again.
[Eugene V. Debs, describing his teenage reaction to a hellfire lecture by a priest]

Eugene V. Debs

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

Ambrose Bierce

#11. You even consider the idea of leving with a thing posessed. You could do it. You have to do something. You have to do someone.

Amanda Boyden

#12. How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see.

Umberto Eco

#13. Twitter Terrorist, billionaire heir, ex-con, computer geek, bad boy - none of those terms came close to describing Kyle Rhodes. He was, simply, a good person, and a confident, intelligent man to boot, and she found that combination absolutely irresistible.

Julie James

#14. You have to find yourself. When you meet him again, you have to know who you are. He's finding out who he is.

Lesley Lokko

#15. Every intelligent person, whether he's an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.

Yehuda Amichai

#16. 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

#17. In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.

Adam Savage

#18. The primary opportunity is to use a model or paradigm for describing ADD that's not disease-based and doesn't imply brain damage or what many children interpret as some type of retardation ... a person must have hope; this model restores self-esteem, thus empowering individuals to change.

Thom Hartmann

#19. I guess the best thing I do of all is ride. Horsemanship, I have a natural flair for it.

Sylvester Stallone

#20. No one's normal. It's all just varying degrees of being weird." - Nerida

Fainne J. Firmin

#21. The tradition of professional baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is, "Do anything you can get away with."

Heywood Broun

#22. I am very strong & robust & not of the delicate sex nor of the fair but of the deficent in look ...

Marjorie Fleming

#23. (Edward describing Angeline's bonnet)
"Then it is overbright and those colors should never been seen togther upon the same person, not to mention the same garment ." he said. "And it actually suits you perfectly. It suits your character.

Mary Balogh

#24. He is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk but then insist on a stoical indifference to the fright afterward. Jefferson Davis's future wife describing him at first meeting.

Shelby Foote

#25. Words were not just words, describing things a person could see. Even if most did not. Maybe they had to know a thing first, to see it.

Barbara Kingsolver

#26. Describing the person I am would best be through music. When I'm up on stage and I'm singing my heart out, I am always reminded of life's best things.

Thia Megia