Describing Quotes

You won't catch Liberal Democrats describing trade unionists as wreckers. - Charles Kennedy

You might be a redneck if...you've been on TV more than 5 times describing the sound of a tornado. - Jeff Foxworthy

You know, I'm really not that competent at describing things musically. - Paul Thomas Anderson

Winston Churchill came closest to describing the conflict's immensity and importance when he called it the first world war, with the prize being the eastern half of North America... The war brought about a shift that opened a four-decade-long overture to an age of empires and revolutions that endured from the mid-18th century until the beginning of the 20th. - Fred Anderson

When you're looking for innovative and creative solutions to problems, the more diverse perspective you can bring, the more likely you can come up with a good solution. We've got to do a better job of describing what engineering is and stimulating the imagination of young people to understand there is some really challenging and interesting work in this field. - John Wall

When you are describing A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things With a sort of mental squint. - Lewis Carroll

When they ask for your occupation, I can't imagine there would be a little box to check describing my job. - Sarah Patterson

When people ask what my best work is, it's the bus. I thought you ought to be living your art, rather than stepping back and describing it. - Ken Kesey

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images. - Niels Bohr

When I talk to college students about Spy, it's like I'm describing something that happened in the 19th century. We were very lucky. We started Spy at a time when our generation had arrived at full adulthood and wanted to connect to its anti-establishment youth. - Kurt Andersen