“The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are caught up in the description, as most people are, then you will never see the mountain”
Jiddu Krishnamurti
“I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.”
Albert Einstein
“I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am pretty, but not beautiful. I have friends, but I am not the peacemaker. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.”
Marilyn Monroe
“It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality.”
Richard M. Nixon
“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.”
Maya Angelou
“The critic should describe, and not prescribe.”
Eugene Ionesco