#describing

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means. ↗

— Paul de Man

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

— Stephen Malkmus

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I'm really, really dumb about describing wine, but I like wine that's full-bodied and dry. ↗

— Esai Morales

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As an artist, you don't think about the parabola or the arc you're describing or where you're going to ultimately end up, you're just kind of crawling around, seeing what's out there. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

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Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations. ↗

— Roger Penrose

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If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a fine addition to the literature of our age? ↗

— Robert Gould Shaw

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Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world. ↗

— Naomi Weisstein

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I'll continue on the path I've been taking, feet on the ground, describing people's lives, describing people's emotions, writing from the standpoint of the ordinary people. ↗

— Mo Yan

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Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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

— Paul Thomas Anderson

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