Describing Quotes

The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting and I think worth describing in detail.

Screenplay is the toughest form of writing for me, because you need to be in present tense. You need to be describing things as they occur.

When my husband first read a draft, he said, "You spend too much time describing the characters' outfits." He was right. I removed much of the clothes talk, but quite a bit remained.

I'm basically talking to the audience, standing alone, describing the weather. It's very rudimentary, the dialogue, saying what the weather is like that day.

I'm incapable of describing the feeling with which I left. I wouldn't want it ever to be repeated, but I would have considered myself unfortunate if I'd never experienced it.

It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself.

Of course, politicians always say they're just describing their opponents' positions, even if they are in fact offering absurd caricatures, if not outright lies.

The critic is actually describing a conscious representation of their interaction with the wine, and therefore the score of rating is a property of that interaction and not the wine itself

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

Describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial: These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.

Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.

Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have.

Why, listening to Obama talk about his economic triumphs over the last three years might make you want to move to the country he was describing. Too bad that country exists primarily in his own head.

I've referred to [Marcus Lemonis] as my celebrity crush. I'm totally describing my celebrity crush, and that was not the question. But I am a fan of his. I really am.

The closest I can get to describing what happens is that voices come to me. I feel like I'm accessing something that is deeper and richer than me.

I may sound douchey describing myself, but I can live with myself and no one gets yelled at.

I think when dictionaries define words, there's a sort of hair-splitting that to most people doesn't make any sense, which is we're not describing what a thing is.

I hate the word juicy in describing anything: lips, plots, oranges. But especially novels. It feels - icky. Reminds me of saliva.

I'm no good at describing my books. 'Holes' has been out now for seven years, and I still can't come up with a good answer when asked what that book is about.

Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of color. Thus it is incapable of producing a picture of this color.

In describing someone's character, I reveal my own.

'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.

There are so many dimensions in my music, and I think mostly what people hear is hope - the describing of experiences and the wonders of life

I just go for what makes me feel good. Especially in 2011, it's so easy to sound like a dickhead when describing yourself because anything anyone says is a catch-word or a buzz-phrase.

People are already describing it [Skyfall] as the best Bond flick ever, and I really think it will be.

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

You know, I'm really not that competent at describing things musically.

There is one thing where people are always right. It is when they are describing what they have been feeling when watching your film. You cannot say: No, you did not feel like that!

While I am describing to you how Nature works, you won't understand why Nature works that way. But you see, nobody understands that.

English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.

The problem with describing poets as legislators is that at that level of politics - politics as political invention - poets have no special skills and are not apt to.

Within a Metaphysics of Quality, science is a set of static intellectual patterns describing this reality, but the patterns are not the reality they describe.

Mathematicians are inexorably drawn to nature, not just describing what is to be found there, but in creating echoes of natural laws.

I'm more into describing a scenario and I move around in that scenario.

I'm never going to write a whole paragraph describing what a living room looks like.

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.

Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles.

The language we use is extremely powerful. It is the frame through which we perceive and describe ourselves and our picture of the world.