(417 quotes found)
“The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“I have seldom been described as shy.”
Nicholas Sparks
“OLEAGINOUS, adj. Oily, smooth, sleek. Disraeli once described the manner of Bishop Wilberforce as "unctuous, oleaginous, saponaceous." And the good prelate was ever afterward known as Soapy Sam. For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.”
Charles Lindbergh
“I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger,' and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.”
Ben Affleck
“I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“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
“I'm sometimes described as a flamboyant leader and a hip-shooter, a fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants operator. But if that were true, I could never have been successful in this business.”
Lee Iacocca
