#describing

How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see. ↗

— Umberto Eco

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Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

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It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself. ↗

— J. Milton Hayes

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Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history. ↗

— Anita Baker

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I'm really bad at describing my own life. ↗

— Helmut Lang

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At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space - abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms. ↗

— Benjamin Whorf

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Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right, you'll win. That if you start describing what you favor as a 'moral value' - 'affordable health care is a moral value' etc., - then you'll appeal to red-state voters. ↗

— Eric Liu

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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that. ↗

— Yann Martel

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I just don't talk about who I'm going out with, that's it. It's an odd thing to sit around describing yourself to 10 different people every 5 minutes yet it's kind of therapeutic in a way. ↗

— Radha Mitchell

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I don't like people to feel completely described by the clothes they wear of mine. I want them to feel that they're describing themselves. ↗

— Isaac Mizrahi

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