It's strictly coincidental that Pluto of course was named for the god of the underworld and we're describing these Halloween moons
It's so glamorous, you have to see it. " (describing the $92 million Rock & Roll Hall of Fame)
I just go for what makes me feel good. Especially in 2011, it's so easy to sound like a dickhead when describing yourself because anything anyone says is a catch-word or a buzz-phrase.
Everything that can happen, does. That's quantum mechanics. But this does not mean everything happens. The rest of physics is about describing what can happen and what can't.
English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.
Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the eye, as the sun paints in a camera obscura. (Describing his poetic ideal, 1817)
The Bible itself does not seem too bothered by the idea that talking of God suffering might in any way diminish God, or detract from his perfection. On the contrary, the Bible seems to revel in the richness of describing God in ways that reflect our own human realities.
There is no describing the feeling of being mistreated by a successful rival in front of the woman you worship.
He read me extracts from a medical journal describing the progress of a staphylococcus aureus infection. And then he pleasured me with a potato.
In describing someone's character, I reveal my own.
There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.
The closest I can get to describing what happens is that voices come to me. I feel like I'm accessing something that is deeper and richer than me.
The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can’t.
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
We are working on creating self-describing, self-organizing, self-diagnosing and self-repairing networks.
There is one thing where people are always right. It is when they are describing what they have been feeling when watching your film. You cannot say: No, you did not feel like that!
David Foster Wallace is a big idol of mine. His writing is so clear that for years I'd read him and think, My God, he is actually writing the way I think. He's describing the thoughts in my head. And then I realized, No, wait. He's just such a good writer, so transparent and articulate, that when he describes his thoughts, I think they're my own.
I think when dictionaries define words, there's a sort of hair-splitting that to most people doesn't make any sense, which is we're not describing what a thing is.
This word gets overused in describing actors but I think it applies to Mike [Tyson] in this case - he was totally fearless. He jumped in and played with us comedically and improvised a lot. A lot of jokes in those scenes with him are from him improvising.
I like writing in an illustrative, descriptive way. I prefer describing to rather than explaining.