No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery. Votes: 4
Harriet Ann JacobsDescription begins in the writer's imagination, but should finish in the reader's. Votes: 3
Stephen KingA skilled worker, regardless of the job description, remains a treasure. Votes: 2
Madeleine M. KuninWhat girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close. Votes: 2
Tori AmosThe saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. Votes: 2
Louis E. BooneI can't please everyone. That's not in my J.D., you know, not in my job description. Votes: 2
Maria SharapovaThe empowered woman is powerful beyond measure and beautiful beyond description. Votes: 0
Steve MaraboliAbstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description. Votes: 0
Robert GennThe artist's morality lies in the force and truth of his description. Votes: 0
Jules Amedee Barbey d'AurevillyThe observer cannot be left out of the description of the observation. Votes: 0
John Archibald WheelerThe excitement of dreams coming true is beyond the description of words. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaScience is the description of phenomena and the formulation of their relations. Votes: 0
Boris SidisFor better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict. Votes: 0
John le CarreEvery type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal. Votes: 0
Max WeberEvery word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description. Votes: 0
Anthony de MelloA singer is someone who puts out an album. That's a very generous description. Votes: 0
Kirsten DunstIn a universe that defies description, all systems of belief can only be false. Votes: 0
Austin Osman SpareI regret very much that I have painted a picture that requires any description. Votes: 0
Winslow HomerWe must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place. Votes: 0
Ludwig WittgensteinAmy Winehouse - her surname's beginning to sound like a description of her liver. Votes: 0
Russell BrandPhysics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible. Votes: 0
Niels BohrDon't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description. Votes: 0
C. S. LewisIt would never occur to me not to look dreadful if that's the job description. Votes: 0
Lesley ManvilleLovecraft gives me the pip as he uses so much description that needs heavily condensing. Votes: 0
Leah MooreTerminus sniffed. "I guard borders. I don't kill giants. It's not in my job description. Votes: 0
Rick RiordanIt is incumbent upon every person of every description to contribute to his country's welfare. Votes: 0
George WashingtonI don't like the word 'businesswoman.' Perhaps 'committed mother' would be the best description. Votes: 0
Steffi GrafSeedy wasn't a fair description for the place, because seeds imply eventual regrowth and renewal. Votes: 0
Jim ButcherThe loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Votes: 0
Andre GideFor a sorcerer, reality, or the world as we all know it, is only a description. Votes: 0
Carlos CastanedaBeing a caregiver for your child is part of the job description of being a mammal. Votes: 0
Mayim BialikThat still feels like the most accurate description - I felt homesick, but I was home. Votes: 0
Sarah SilvermanI am not someone who throws around the word 'self-esteem.' It is a fictional description. Votes: 0
Nicolle WallaceThe camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is. Votes: 0
Janet MalcolmIn painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music. Votes: 0
Paul GauguinThe most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera. Votes: 0
John MarshallThat's what alcoholics do. It's in their job description: fall apart and then keep falling apart. Votes: 0
Audrey NiffeneggerAddiction is not a fact of life but a description about how we are choosing to live. Votes: 0
Paul PearsallNo matter what the job description says, your real job is to make the boss look good. Votes: 0
Lois WyseThey presented a description of the world to all of us which was very limited and narrow. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellAn intentional object is given by a word or a phrase which gives a description under which. Votes: 0
G. E. M. AnscombeGradually, you were given a description of the world, a way of seeing, which is largely sexual. Votes: 0
Frederick LenzOne line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't. Votes: 0
Anne LamottI have never supported white supremacism but I read this [this description of me] in the papers. Votes: 0
David DukeIt is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description. Votes: 0
Alan WattsTemptation is impossible for me to resist Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description. Votes: 0
Tom SizemoreIf it has a name or a description it has or will exist at some point in time Votes: 0
Stanley Victor PaskavichI just try to be honest, because I think that's part of my job description as a writer. Votes: 0
Charlie KaufmanA good game has to have a fun core, which is a one-sentence description of why it's fun. Votes: 0
Paul Reiche IIIAnd where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only silence. Votes: 0
Mark Z. DanielewskiReview your description of the world, what it is to be a woman, and see how inadequate it is. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellThe last person I ever want working for me is someone who says 'that's not in my job description. Votes: 0
Neil deGrasse TysonRonnie had it right calling it Torture. That is a much more accurate description the way I see it. Votes: 0
Ronald CoaseI doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described. Votes: 0
Anthony TrollopeA sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world. Votes: 0
John LockeI love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person.' Votes: 3 Vanessa Lengies
After a summer trip to Switzerland, which was rich in experiences, I started writing. In the beginning, I aimed at descriptions of nature and folk life until, as the years passed, the description of man became my chief interest. Votes: 1 Henrik Pontoppidan
String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string. Votes: 3 Edward Witten
The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it. Votes: 1 Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
My mother used to push 'Wuthering Heights' on me as a boy, and I sensed from her breathy description of the story that it would make me laugh. I have no plans to find out if this is true. Votes: 1 Walter Kirn
A skilled worker, regardless of the job description, remains a treasure. Votes: 2 Madeleine M. Kunin