Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are looking for a way to describe it that is not phony and doesn't frighten people.

With dismay we have had to note that today even heads of state describe the Holocaust as a 'fairytale' and make anti-Semitic remarks.

James Comey

When I worked as a prosecutor in Richmond, Virginia in the 1990s, that city, like so much of America, was experiencing horrific levels of violent crime. But to describe it that way obscures an important truth: for the most part, white people weren't dying; black people were dying. Most white people could drive around the problem.

Darrell Hammond

I'm not a doctor - so I can't describe flashbacks well - but it is like you're living it again.

When you have time to sit back and look at it, we never thought we'd be where we are right now. Frustrating probably isn't a good enough word to describe how we feel.

We knew their offense was pretty much geared around April, but I've got five and it's hard to stop a team when you got five. There is really no way to describe the defense. We just tried to put pressure on (Sykes), but we knew she was going to get her points.

We kind of describe it as living on Mars or something, another planet.

Bridgit Mendler

Sometimes my lyrics may describe a situation that happened to a friend. Other times, I create a story from the ground up.

Isabel Lucas

I have a lot of vintage, so my style is pretty eclectic of different time periods and styles. I would describe it as comfortable, creative, and vintage.

Charlotte Rampling

I remember my father saying to me once, 'I finally know how to describe you, Charlotte. You're prickly.' And he was right - prickly is a very good description. If I had to be an animal, I'd probably be a porcupine.

Edward Witten

Having those extra dimensions and therefore many ways the string can vibrate in many different directions turns out to be the key to being able to describe all the particles that we see.

Even though, there are many who describe themselves as Christian, most do not heed to God's word without subjectivity.

Paul Theroux

I have always felt that the truth is prophetic, and that if you describe precisely what you see and give it life with your imagination, then what you write ought to have lasting value, no matter what the mood of your prose.

Rutger Hauer

'Blade Runner' is such a unique film. How do you describe a diamond? I don't think you should ever touch it again.

Richard Engel

'Shabiha' is a difficult word to translate into English. It comes from the word Syrians used to describe the luxury Mercedes favored by the Assad family's operatives that the enforcers of the regime used to move money, smuggle weapons and intimidate opponents.

James Farrior

You know he's going to throw something out there they've never seen before. You can't describe how good he is. He's seen everything and done everything.

You know it ain't easy For these thoughts here to leave meThere's no words to describe itIn French or in EnglishWell, diamonds they fadeAnd flowers they bloomAnd I'm telling youThese feelings won't go awayThey've been knockin' me sidewaysThey've been knockin' me out latelyWhenever you come around meThese feelings won't go away They've been knockin' me sidewaysI keep thinking in a moment thatTime will take them awayBut these feelings won't go away.

We've been experiencing God's grace that's how I would describe it.

Adam Burish

Unless you were in that dressing room and around the whole thing, you can't describe it. I don't think I've stopped smiling yet since the game has ended.

Peter Thiel

I would not describe myself as a super early adopter of consumer technology.

Philippe Petit

I would not describe my personality. And I think when you describe people, you are making a mistake. That's not how they are; that's how you perceive them at that moment. It's limiting in front of something that is magnificent and unlimited: life.

Stephen Wolfram

You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have been dominated by what is really a good idea, which is the idea that one can describe the natural world using mathematical equations.

Neal Boortz

Well, I've known Cynthia McKinney for a long time, and there is no way in the world that that word should be used to describe her or her hairdo or any woman -- unless she really is -- or her hairdo.

Sean Burke

We fought hard there and went into the third, and all of a sudden, there are some penalties. And it was over. I don't know how to describe it.

Bernard Berrian

Rex has an intangible kind of thing. You can't really describe it. But it's there.

Revenge is sweet. There's no way to describe it -- it's awesome.

Nobody can describe a fool to the life, without much patient self-inspection

Edmund White

While writing 'City Boy,' I relied mainly on my own memories. In particular, I was able to describe the effect of gay liberation on an individual life (mine) as events paralleled my own growing self-acceptance; in this case, the political truly was the personal.

John Engler

When I think of what I've been through the last 30 months. To think you can play a game like golf ? and play it pretty well ? and then have it taken away from you ... words can't describe what it feels like to get the opportunity to get all that back. It just shows that you should never give up.

Melvin Calvin

To express to you in mere words, our personal feelings on this occasion you must know to be impossible, and particularly so for one who normally has to describe only things outside himself.

Elle King

I used to be afraid to use the word 'pop' to describe my music, but underneath my tough, bad-girl sound, there's some fun.

Lawrence Hargrave

To remove this obstacle I repeat or refer to such knowledge as has come under my notice, my own previously expressed views, and also describe and exhibit my last experiments and explain their novelty and utility.

Laura Ziskin

I describe myself as someone who was always putting on a show, even when I was a little girl. I wanted to be an actress but I liked organizing everybody and putting on plays. I was a producer.