#describe

More often than not, however, the person who flatly states 'Elves aren't like that!' is hard pressed to describe how they really look.... as if Tolkien has summoned archetypes from so deep in our minds that we can only recall them incompletely. ↗

— John Howe

#deep #describe #elves #hard #how

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe. ↗

— John Hurt

#describe #everything #ferment #going #happens

Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#described #love #perfection #properly #study

The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#analyze #describe #get #make #model

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#future #i #prevent #try

Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#book #contain #course #describe #earth

I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic. ↗

— George Crumb

#confused #described #frequently #hear #i

In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#atmosphere #could #describe #main #mood

To describe and explain my ideas is to lose them. ↗

— Marino Marini

#explain #ideas #lose #them

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#appear #been #bipolar #describe #ends