Famous quotes containing the word describe:
“I have been disappointed in all my expectations of Australia, except as to its wickedness; for it is far more wicked than I have conceived it possible for any place to be, or than it is possible for me to describe to you in England.”
—Henry Parkes (1815–1896)
“Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a word to compass these things, a world that is a long, brute game, then we bump against another mystery: the inrush of power and delight, the canary that sings on the skull.”
—Annie Dillard (b. 1945)
“I can’t describe it, what I’m feeling and what I’m thinking. This means something. This is important.”
—Steven Spielberg (b. 1947)