Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries.

Even as rigorous a determinist as Karl Marx, who at times described the social behaviour of the bourgeoisie in terms which suggested a problem in social physics, could subject it at other times to a withering scorn which only the presupposition of moral responsibility could justify.

A textual critic engaged upon his business is not at all like Newton investigating the motions of the planets: he is much more like a dog hunting for fleas. If a dog hunted for fleas on mathematical principles, basing his researches on statistics of area and population, he would never catch a flea except by accident.

There are words to describe her, my dear, but one does not repeat them in polite company.

Ivy waved her wet handkerchief, as much as to say ‘words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress’. Then, because Ivy never settled for meaningful gestures when verbal embellishments could compound the effect, she said, “Words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress.

Describing the person I am would best be through music. When I’m up on stage and I’m singing my heart out, I am always reminded of life’s best things

Mixtapes are very personal, and they describe who you are better than an album sometimes

Among the many other questions raised by the nebulous concept of “greed” is why it is a term applied almost exclusively to those who want to earn more money or to keep what they have already earned – never to those wanting to take other people’s money in taxes or to those wishing to live on the largesse dispensed from such taxation. No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government

The basis of all true cosmic horror is violation of the order of nature, and the profoundest violations are always the least concrete and describable.

They clearly saw their town as the one exception in an area of the country once described as having enough ignorance to support not simply a four-year university but an eight-year one.

I blast Northern Sky, by the Capital Kings, on the way there, but at the gym, I totally zone out.

Any theory which causes solipsism to seem just as likely an explanation for the phenomena it seeks to describe ought to be held in the utmost suspicion.

I prefer other people to make judgments about the way I play and to characterize me, rather me describe myself.

I’m running out of words to describe this lad.

I used to imagine it. I used to pretend that my Peugeot driving to the gym in the rain in Dublin was a Ferrari on the Vegas strip. And now that I have that? I can’t even describe that feeling. That’s why I like the best – the best cars, the best food, the best watches.

I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

Technology is a word that describes something that doesn’t work yet.

There is no point in using the word ‘impossible’ to describe something that has clearly happened.

I would say natural is the best way to describe the real me. I’m not always going out or dressed up like I am on the red carpet. On a normal day, I wear normal clothes and wear little to no make-up. I’m always a bit girly, though.

I have a 10,000-year-old brain and the boogers of a 7-year-old. That’s how I describe myself.

A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me, there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.

It seems impossible that any man could adequately describe his mother. I cannot describe mine

There have been a few players described as the new George Best over the years, but this is the first time it’s been a compliment to me.