Description Quotes

“He had the kind of face that, once seen, is never remembered.”

“The grim coyote squatted nearby, yawning, and the sun was so pitilessly bright that the shadows of the clouds had sharp edges.”

“They were short, with gray skin, and large, slanted eyes.”

“He's as quick as a hiccup.”

“Washington, the city of magnificent distances.”

“They were not human.”

“He was a man of rough, but strong mind; and, though not elegant in his language, was very impressive in his delivery.”

“He speaks in that endlessly patient, soothing tone that doctors use when they are describing the side effects of a drug which will shortly kill you.”

“He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.”

“The stretched-out, shimmering, caesarean-blue hide of the Caribbean.”

“Never did I see so much fighting in so short a time. We drove the British from the field and took their cannon.”

“This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry.”

“The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray, And, darkly circled, gave at noon A sadder light than waning moon.”

“Some vast amount of flesh and bone, Which knoweth not its own mind.”

“His voice was like a sword, less because of its power than its suddenness.”

“...and the sun is a smudged butter-pat in a grey sky.”

“English as tuppence, changing yet changeless as canal water, nestling in green nowhere.”

“Adjectives are words that describe people, places, and things.”

“He could make a monkey out of a ram's horn.”

“Jolly, lovable, and a clod.”