Words Describing Quotes

#1. 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

#2. After reading about ten of those self-help books, I saw that they were leading nowhere. They have an immediate effect, but that effect stops as soon as I close the book. They're just words, describing an ideal world that doesn't exist, not even for the people who wrote them.

Paulo Coelho

#3. I strenuously object to the very word "grotesque" which has become hackneyed to the point of nausea ... I would prefer my music to be described as "Scherzo-ish" in quality, or else by three words describing the various degrees of the Scherzo - whimsicality, laughter, mockery.

Sergei Prokofiev

#4. The Eskimos have thirty words for describing different kinds of snow, and modern Russian has about the same number of expressions to describe giving a bribe to a state official.

Victor Pelevin

#5. Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.

Anita Baker

#6. No words, phrases, or sentences are capable of describing or naming the Way, because once it is named, it is a false name and has to be eliminated. Once it is eliminated, only emptiness is left. When the false is abandoned, the true emerges.

Henry Chang

#7. Writing for children is as easy as describing the history of the Byzantium in three words.

Mo Willems

#8. Google 'broccoli casserole' and make the first recipe you find. I guarantee it will be disappointing.

Christopher Kimball

#9. I think of the hundreds of lights dancing across the night sky. "I knew you were watching. I know it sounds stupid, but I felt you with me, and then when you sent that letter describing that night ... " I drop off, unable to find the right words to explain the emotion.

Katie McGarry

#10. And now I know why they invented words for love, why they had to: It's the only thing that can come close to describing what I feel in that moment, the baffling mixture of pain and pleasure and fear and joy, all running sharply through me at once.

Lauren Oliver

#11. But certain favourite roles are played by us so often before the public and rehearsed so carefully when we are alone that we find it easier to refer to their fictitious testimony than to that of a reality which we have almost entirely forgotten.

Marcel Proust

#12. The cold is getting quite severe already; all the quail have gone, and last night there was a full orchestra of wolves outside the post-station.

Clive Phillipps-Wolley

#13. Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.

Yann Martel

#14. It would be like describing colors to someone blind from birth: The words might be understood, but the concept would remain mysterious and private.

Nicholas Sparks

#15. Describing beauty is almost impossible because we perceive it, rather than describe it. If you look at a Rembrandt painting and start to try and describe what the beauty is you see, your words sound absolutely pathetic.

John Lennox

#16. Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#17. 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

#18. Electricity is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth, because they unleash cascades of complementary innovations, like lightbulbs and, yes, factory redesign.

Erik Brynjolfsson

#19. Repetition may not entertain, but it teaches.

Frederic Bastiat

#20. The word photography comes from two ancient Greek words: photo for "light" and graph for "drawing." "Drawing with light" is a way of describing photography.

Vishal Diwan

#21. If dirty words frighten you...I really don't know how you have managed to live so long. People are full of dirty words. The only time they do not use them, most people I mean, is when they are describing something dirty.

James Baldwin

#22. You look like You with the volume turned up

Rainbow Rowell

#23. We have gained reality and lost dream. No more lounging under a tree and peering at the sky between one's big and second toes; there's work to be done. To be efficient, one cannot be hungry and dreamy but must eat steak and keep moving.

Robert Musil

#24. Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: That I have reigned with your loves.

Elizabeth I

#25. 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

#26. Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded, But must be current, and the good thereof Consists in mutual and partaken bliss.

John Milton

#27. Man works primarily for his own self-respect and not for others or for profit ... the person who is working for the sake of his own satisfaction, the money he gets in return serves merely as fuel, that is, as a symbol of reward and recognition, in the last analysis, of acceptance by ones fellowmen.

Otto Rank

#28. If you've lived through it, you already know there are no words that will ever come close to describing it, and if you didn't - you will never understand.

Jodi Picoult

#29. Younger writers are always looking for "blurbs," one of the few words that sounds exactly as awful as the crime it's describing.

Brian K. Vaughan

#30. Her hair gives dawn it's fire, her eyes give dusk her soul"
He knew how to use his voice to melt a girl's heart, to make a girl want to believe. I steeled myself against the seductive words. "Excuse me?"
"It's a line of poetry describing a beautiful girl, one who doesn't seem to know it.

Elizabeth Chandler

#31. So I think it was a good thing It was a little surreal watching Leo scream 'I'm not going to die today!' with our music playing - that was the last thing on my mind when I wrote the song.

Jon Crosby

#32. Let me praise you tonight.
Because tomorrow you cannot be described by words,
While describing you.
Tomorrow, earth and sky will disappear altogether.

Rumi

#33. His work was so great that it cannot be compassed in a few words. His death is one of the greatest losses ever to occur to British science.

{Describing Ernest Rutherford upon his death at age 66. Thomson, then 80 years old, was once his teacher.}

J.J. Thomson

#34. We are very fond of books. You can learn nearly everything from them that rabbits can't teach you.

Alan Snow

#35. Beware of men who use words that relate pejoratively to females when describing the 'other side.

Jane Fonda