“My own room is next the bath room said Mr Salteena it is a nice light room and my pictures are all in a row.”— Daisy Ashford
“Then the door opened and a man came in. He was a big man, and he looked like a butcher.”— Leigh Brackett
“He had the look of a man who had left his soul in bed that morning and walked out of the house in his skin.”— Katherine Dunn
“Among these temples there is one which is the chief of them all, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe.”— Hernán Cortés
“The continent is too large to describe. It is a veritable ocean, a separate planet, a varied, immensely rich cosmos.”— Ryszard Kapuściński
“The Irish are a rude people, subsisting on the produce of their cattle only, and living themselves like beasts.”— Giraldus Cambrensis
“The whole of the Yukon district, so far as it is at present known, may be described as a region of mountains and valleys, of plateaux and rolling uplands.”— George Mercer Dawson
“The critic is the one who describes. And one can only describe what has left an impression on them.”— Serge Daney
“The feast was over, the board was clear’d, The flawns and the custards had all disappear’d.”— Richard Harris Barham
“The sun was like a great visiting presence that filled the whole valley with its slow grinding patience.”— Richard Brautigan
“The people are light and agile, fierce rather than strong, and entirely bred up to the use of arms.”— Giraldus Cambrensis