Describing Size Compared

Famous quotes containing the words describing, size and/or compared:

    “Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.”
    —Naomi Weisstein, U.S. psychologist, feminist, and author. Psychology Constructs the Female (1969)

    “It is very considerably smaller than Australia and British Somaliland put together. As things stand at present there is nothing much the Texans can do about this, and ... they are inclined to shy away from the subject in ordinary conversation, muttering defensively about the size of oranges.”
    —Alex Atkinson, British humor writer. repr. In Present Laughter, ed. Alan Coren (1982)

    “Thought product and food product are to me
    Nothing compared to the producing of them.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)