Describing Size Compared

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

    “In describing someone’s character, I reveal my own.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “Delusions that shrink to the size of a woman’s glove,
    Then sicken inclusively outwards:
    . . . the incessant recital
    Intoned by reality, larded with technical terms,
    Each one double-yolked with meaning and meaning’s rebuttal:
    For the skirl of that bulletin unpicks the world like a knot....”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.”
    —Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)