Famous quotes containing the words definite and/or descriptions:
“White ... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black.... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“Matter-of-fact descriptions make the improbable seem real.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)