#described

I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.' ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#described #downward #had #i #manager

I didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music. ↗

— Norah Jones

#daughter #described #fair #had #i

I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes. ↗

— Karl Rove

#anything #become #called #campaigning #columnist

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich. ↗

— Pierre Salinger

#emotional #emotions #i #i do #my own

We continued to move forward without loss of time, hoping to be able to reach the wood described by the Indians before all our horses should become exhausted. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#become #before #continued #described #exhausted

A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#any #describe #described #hardly #only

John Jones may be described as 'one of the has beens'. ↗

— William Hone

#john #jones #may

Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done. ↗

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

#child #common #cut #described #done

In Modernism, reality used to validate media. In Postmodernism, the media validate reality. If you don't believe this, just think how many times you've described some real event as being 'just like a movie.' ↗

— Brad Holland

#believe #described #event #how #just

My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised. ↗

— Richard John Neuhaus

#church #described #emerge #ever #expressed