Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it. (Augustus Baldwin Longstreet)

Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it.

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

Related topics

attempt frantic language scene

Related quotes

Death cannot be struggled against, brother. It ever arrives, defiant of every hiding place, of every frantic attempt to escape. View quote
Steven Erikson
I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie. View quote
Marianne Wiggins
It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist. View quote
Edward Sapir
There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way. View quote
F. Murray Abraham
With most of my books, I'll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of makes the scene pop. View quote
John Sandford