Quotes about Description

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery. Votes: 4

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description. Votes: 4

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall. Votes: 4

You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same. Votes: 4

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else. Votes: 4

Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need. Votes: 3

Description before prescription is the trait of a leader!!! Votes: 3

Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story. Votes: 3

Description begins in the writer's imagination, but should finish in the reader's. Votes: 3

Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand. Votes: 3

Love is something so divine, Description would but make it less; 'Tis what I feel, but can't define, 'Tis what I know but can't express Votes: 3

Description needs to slide into a story like a snake through grass - silently, almost invisibly, without calling attention to itself. It should enrich every story moment without slowing the action. Votes: 3

Don't be limited by your job description. Votes: 2

A skilled worker, regardless of the job description, remains a treasure. Votes: 2

What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close. Votes: 2

The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title Votes: 2

The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. Votes: 2

I can't please everyone. That's not in my J.D., you know, not in my job description. Votes: 2

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. Votes: 2

Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt. Votes: 2

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. Votes: 2

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings. Votes: 2

What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer. Votes: 2

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: 2

The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena. Votes: 2

Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc. Votes: 2

I like to be right. I try not to miss the big ideas, forget the little ones, and try to get them right. End of job description. Votes: 2

As with all commandments, gratitude is a description of a successful mode of living. The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us. Votes: 2

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description. Votes: 2

Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another. Votes: 2

Alan Turing gave us a mathematical model of digital computing that has completely withstood the test of time. He gave us a very, very clear description that was truly prophetic. Votes: 2

I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything have one primary concern - mankind. Votes: 2

Like all good citizens, the elderly and people with disabilities want to eradicate waste and fraud from government, but helping people with special needs meet their basic needs doesn't fit this description. Votes: 2

I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand. Votes: 2

My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they swallow me as a description of his misery. Votes: 2

All I can really say is it's bloodier than hell. In this one I'm going to be much more direct and honest in my description of the actual killings and the crime scene. Votes: 2

Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show that Votes: 2

The type of figleaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes. Votes: 2

I find it an absolute pleasure to read travel guides, especially the Michelin guides, and their description of places I know I'll probably never visit. I spend a large part of my life reading descriptions of restaurants. Votes: 2

Our situation here, without any exaggeration, is beyond description almost; it is such as eye has not seen nor ear heard, nor hath it ever entered into the heart of men to conceive Boston ever to arrive at. Votes: 2

The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are caught up in the description, as most people are, then you will never see the mountain Votes: 2

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: 2

I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual formations of modernity. Calling this a postmodern age reproduces the modernist assumption that history must be policed by periods. Votes: 2

There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn't bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins of other people. And while it's hard to see, it's important to understand that these people exist. Votes: 2

I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere. Votes: 2

This is the entertainment industry, so game designers have to have a creative mind and also have to be able to stand up against the marketing people at their company - otherwise they cannot be creative. There are not that many people who fit that description. Votes: 2

I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after I was doing comedy. There was a paper called the 'Boston Phoenix,' and someone wrote a description of what I was doing and that's where I first saw 'deadpan.' Votes: 2

My only description for me is that there's no throwaway people. That's the creed that I live by. It doesn't matter if I'm singing or not. That's the kind of person that my father and mother wanted me to be. The end obligation is to make people feel good about who they are. Votes: 2

Think about the comfortable feeling you have as you open your front door. That's but a hint of what we'll feel some day on arriving at the place our Father has lovingly and personally prepared for us in heaven. We will finally - and permanently - be 'at home' in a way that defies description. Votes: 2

I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so often there'll be something I can use later: a joke, a description, a quote. It's an invaluable aid when it comes to winning arguments. 'That's not what you said on February 3, 1996,' I'll say to someone. Votes: 2

The generation of Isaiah did not require the detailed description; his account, "I saw the Lord," &c., sufficed. The generation of the Babylonian exile wanted to learn all the details. ...Isaiah was so familiar with it that he did not consider it necessary to communicate it to others as a new thing, especially as it was well known to the intelligent. Votes: 2

The quote-unquote 'description' of a leading man was once your tall, handsome man with the build of whatever, almost a trophy to some degree. I think now it's about making a leading man what you want a leading man to be. In this day, you can't deny talent. You look at Jonah Hill, you look at Zach Galifianakis, you look at myself. Votes: 2

There aren't many great passages written about food, but I love one by George Millar, who worked for the SOE in the second world war and wrote a book called 'Horned Pigeon.' He had been on the run and hadn't eaten for a week, and his description of the cheese fondue he smells in the peasant kitchen of a house in eastern France is unbelievable. Votes: 2

The description is not the described. Votes: 0

To me, self-description is a calamity. Votes: 0

What is your one-sentence job description? Votes: 0

Damn description, it is always disgusting. Votes: 0

My job description is... being enthusiastic. Votes: 0

We live in a description of reality. Votes: 0

Pain is pain. It needs no description. Votes: 0

The power we call God defies description. Votes: 0

I feel that I'm solid at description. Votes: 0

Sisters ruin everything. It's in their job description. Votes: 0

Charm is that extra quality that defies description. Votes: 0

The power of the rosary is beyond description. Votes: 0

But mothers lie. It's in the job description. Votes: 0

Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too. Votes: 0

The job description for a queen changes with the times. Votes: 0

A picture is never anything but its own plural description. Votes: 0

Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight. Votes: 0

But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach. Votes: 0

Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description. Votes: 0

Lying to the American people wasn't part of my job description. Votes: 0

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description. Votes: 0

Politicians, it's in their job description to just lie, every day. Votes: 0

The empowered woman is powerful beyond measure and beautiful beyond description. Votes: 0

The observer cannot be left out of the description of the observation. Votes: 0

Science is the description of phenomena and the formulation of their relations. Votes: 0

Alphas simply did not grovel; arrogance was part of the job description. Votes: 0

The artist's morality lies in the force and truth of his description. Votes: 0

Even in the midst of love-making, writers are working on the description. Votes: 0

Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description. Votes: 0

It's definitely part of my job description not to be too fat. Votes: 0

The excitement of dreams coming true is beyond the description of words. Votes: 0

For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict. Votes: 0

Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal. Votes: 0

How can you run for president if you don't know the job description? Votes: 0

How can you run for president if you dont know the job description? Votes: 0

One cannot build a future based on the description of a criminal past. Votes: 0

An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind. Votes: 0

We turned an anthem into an assignment, a poem into a job description. Votes: 0

Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible. Votes: 0

My job description is that I'm a rock star. And I'm good at it. Votes: 0

Amy Winehouse - her surname's beginning to sound like a description of her liver. Votes: 0

We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place. Votes: 0

I regret very much that I have painted a picture that requires any description. Votes: 0

Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description. Votes: 0

In a universe that defies description, all systems of belief can only be false. Votes: 0

A singer is someone who puts out an album. That's a very generous description. Votes: 0

Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description. Votes: 0

It is incumbent upon every person of every description to contribute to his country's welfare. Votes: 0

I don't like the word 'businesswoman.' Perhaps 'committed mother' would be the best description. Votes: 0

The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness?" Votes: 0

Terminus sniffed. "I guard borders. I don't kill giants. It's not in my job description. Votes: 0

Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact. Votes: 0

Lovecraft gives me the pip as he uses so much description that needs heavily condensing. Votes: 0

The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Votes: 0

Seedy wasn't a fair description for the place, because seeds imply eventual regrowth and renewal. Votes: 0

There was a time when "sound as a dollar" was a description, not a joke. Votes: 0

The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title. Votes: 0

It would never occur to me not to look dreadful if that's the job description. Votes: 0

That's what alcoholics do. It's in their job description: fall apart and then keep falling apart. Votes: 0

That still feels like the most accurate description - I felt homesick, but I was home. Votes: 0

The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera. Votes: 0

For a sorcerer, reality, or the world as we all know it, is only a description. Votes: 0

Being a caregiver for your child is part of the job description of being a mammal. Votes: 0

In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music. Votes: 0

Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. Votes: 0

The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is. Votes: 0

Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject. Votes: 0

I am not someone who throws around the word 'self-esteem.' It is a fictional description. Votes: 0

Commentating, illustrating, description-giving Adjective expert. Analyzing, surmising, Musical, myth-seeking people of the universe... This is yours! Votes: 0

I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description. Votes: 0

For me, good description usually consists of a few well-chosen details that will stand for everything else. Votes: 0

Temptation is impossible for me to resist... Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description. Votes: 0

Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation Votes: 0

Temptation is impossible for me to resist Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description. Votes: 0

Beautiful moments in life need no words for description. Living those moments and feeling the beauty suffices. Votes: 0

Addiction is not a fact of life but a description about how we are choosing to live. Votes: 0

No matter what the job description says, your real job is to make the boss look good. Votes: 0

It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description. Votes: 0

I have never supported white supremacism but I read this [this description of me] in the papers. Votes: 0

One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't. Votes: 0

Gradually, you were given a description of the world, a way of seeing, which is largely sexual. Votes: 0

They presented a description of the world to all of us which was very limited and narrow. Votes: 0

An intentional object is given by a word or a phrase which gives a description under which. Votes: 0

And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only silence. Votes: 0

I just try to be honest, because I think that's part of my job description as a writer. Votes: 0

'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it. Votes: 0

A good game has to have a fun core, which is a one-sentence description of why it's fun. Votes: 0

Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing. Votes: 0

If it has a name or a description it has or will exist at some point in time Votes: 0

To me, feminism is such a simple description: it's equal rights, economic rights, political rights, and social rights. Votes: 0

Someone once told me that being in the closet is like living in a vertical casket. Perfect description. Votes: 0

The First Lady role is really difficult. It has no job description... You have to create it for yourself. Votes: 0

Suicide carries in its aftermath a level of confusion and devastation that is, for the most part, beyond description. Votes: 0

Ronnie had it right calling it Torture. That is a much more accurate description the way I see it. Votes: 0

I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described. Votes: 0

At boarding schools of every description, the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief; and of the senior, vice. Votes: 0

There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president. Votes: 0

As you become more conscious of your body as eternity, a sense of ease, a fullness beyond description occurs. Votes: 0

Review your description of the world, what it is to be a woman, and see how inadequate it is. Votes: 0

Professional is not a label you give yourself - it's a description you hope others will apply to you. Votes: 0

If you're selling something on Craiglist, it's never a good idea to end the description with, May have lice. Votes: 0

Whenever I fill out the job description I put 'songwriter', never 'singer' or 'artist.' Singers come and go. Votes: 0

Whatever my job description consists of, becomes my job. Maybe it's just the way I tackle work, in general. Votes: 0

Unfortunately, unless the job description included a translation of the prologue of The Canterbury Tales, I was dreadfully under-qualified. Votes: 0

You are a genius beyond description, so start telling yourself that and become aware of who you really are. Votes: 0

Words and ideas are a description of reality, silence is a negation of reality. What is the reality itself? Votes: 0

God doesn't call people to a job description, He calls people to Himself and His mission in the world. Votes: 0

I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor. Votes: 0

The last person I ever want working for me is someone who says 'that's not in my job description. Votes: 0

The less serious running of any description which an athlete indulges in before eighteen, the better for his future prospects. Votes: 0

Conceptual art is entirely word-bound. It is, in fact, the kind of art that is exhausted in its verbal description. Votes: 0

Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description. Votes: 0

I wouldn't say being in a film with The Rock was 'motivating.' 'Terrifying' would be a more accurate description. Votes: 0

I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him. Votes: 0

The Book of Revelation is a description of one path to the New Jerusalem, but this scenario is not inevitable. Votes: 0

Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own. Votes: 0

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space. Votes: 0

I really like 'This Side of Paradise' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I think it's a cool description of a character. Votes: 0

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world. Votes: 0

Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description. Votes: 0

You can never appreciate the scent of a flower by another's description. Some things are left to experience. Journey of self. Votes: 0

Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me. Votes: 0

What we need now is the description of the "describer" or, in other words, we need a theory of the observer. Votes: 0

'John Doe' is typically used in a warrant when the accused is known by an alias or by a physical description. Votes: 0

Whereas most other modern composers are engaged in manufacturing cocktails of every hue and description, I offer the public pure cold water. Votes: 0

Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached. Votes: 0

A random sequence is one that cannot be algorithmically compressed : the shortest description of a random sequence is simply the sequence itself. Votes: 0

The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action. Votes: 0

In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom. Votes: 0

Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man. Votes: 0

My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City. Votes: 0

Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations. Votes: 0

Scatterbrain is one of those harmless little words you use a million times... Then it turns up in a crime scene description. Votes: 0

I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping. Votes: 0

The most foolish description of the young is that they are rebellious. The truth is that they are a fellowship of cowards. Votes: 0

This principle that judges are not politicians lies at the very heart of a judicial job - of the judicial job description. Votes: 0

The truly enlightened are not necessarily very religious. Religon is a convienent description to take care of our fears, to passify us. Votes: 0

Needless to say, there was no one around remotely fitting the description of a normal person: I was at a writing conference. Votes: 0

What comes, will go. What is found, will be lost again. But what you are is beyond coming and going and beyond description. Votes: 0

I take issue with many people's description of people being "Illegal" Immigrants. There aren't any illegal Human Beings as far as I'm concerned. Votes: 0

To make a precise scientific description of reality out of words is like trying to build a rigid structure out of pure quicksilver. Votes: 0

I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique - you didn't see that as a job description anywhere. Votes: 0

The limitations that we can see of the sexual description of reality are very apparent. Very few men attain enlightenment, even fewer women. Votes: 0

Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff didn't like the word 'horror'. They, like I, went for the French description: 'the theatre of the fantastique'. Votes: 0

For me, setting and description is a challenge. I always want to get that part just right, and sometimes the words won't work. Votes: 0

Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.' Votes: 0

the description of lust was simple: two people learn they're compatible , attraction grows, and the ancient instinct to preserve the species kicks in. Votes: 0

I've been called a minimalist composer for more than 30 years, and while I've never really agreed with the description, I've gotten used to it. Votes: 0

In meditation you can erase the conditioning. But still, you have to fight the description of the world that everyone else is carrying around. Votes: 0

I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all. Votes: 0

It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace. Votes: 0

Women have been taught that they are not powerful; they've been given an opposite description, that they are weak. The word "effeminate" implies weakness. Votes: 0

I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in their head. Votes: 0

All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong. Votes: 0

Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs. Votes: 0

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: 0

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: 0

Learning how to live in the greatest peace, partnership, and brotherhood with all men and women, of whatever description, is a moving and fascinating adventure. Votes: 0

To be painted a villain, you have to do something, I guess, evil or something heinous, and I don't know if I fit that description. Votes: 0

I lived in a brilliantly lit haze, shifting and flickering according to my changing desires. Of course, that is only a description of being young. Votes: 0

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better. Votes: 0

When philosophers try to understand consciousness, much of what they claim is not conceptual analysis at all, though it may be shopped under that description. Votes: 0

Bliss defies description, obviously, since it annihilates you, since you're not there to experience it. You get the lead-up and the come-down, never the zenith. Votes: 0

I wanted to be the conduit for somebody else's experiences, filtered through me, and passed on to other people. Which is the job description, really. Votes: 0

If it is possible for the human tongue to give the fullest description of God, I have come to the conclusion that God is Truth. Votes: 0

God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification Votes: 0

Once or twice I`ve been described as a light comedian. I consider this the most accurate description of my abilities I`ve ever seen. Votes: 0

I had been pretty well made a prisoner by school, by society. I had been given this description of the world that I couldn't accept. Votes: 0

I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled. Votes: 0

I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled. Votes: 0

I am ever more intrigued by the correspondence between mathematics and physical facts. The adaptability of mathematics to the description of physical phenomena is uncanny. Votes: 0

Lucky Us' ends with a description of a photograph of the novel's fictional family. I could never get enough of my own family photo albums. Votes: 0

My opinion with respect to immigration is, that except of useful mechanics and some particular description of men and professions, there is no use of encouragement. Votes: 0

Many of us knuckle-dragging brush-painters think that 'behind the times' is part of our job description. Why deny ourselves the authentic journey of a time-honoured form? Votes: 0

However well equipped our language, it can never be forearmed against all possible cases that may arise and call for description: fact is richer than diction. Votes: 0

The photograph [of Che Guevara], for a civilization now accustomed to thinking in images, was not the description of a single event... it was an argument. Votes: 0

I call myself a playmaker sometimes - but that's just a word. I don't feel like I have to have a title or a job description. Votes: 0

Some days, the music is not in tune, but it's always a song worth singing. That's the best description of a good marriage I've ever heard Votes: 0

landscape, that vast still life, invites description, not narration. It is lyric. It has no story: it is the beloved, and asks only to be contemplated. Votes: 0

I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description Votes: 0

In all probability, mental states are processes and activities of the brain. Exactly what activities, and exactly at what level of description, remains to be seen. Votes: 0

My hope is that the description of God's love in my life will give you the freedom and the courage to discover... God's love in yours. Votes: 0

Somebody was telling me about the French Army rifle that was being advertised on eBay the other day - the description was, 'Never shot. Dropped once. Votes: 0

There's nothing the world loves more than a ready-made description which they can hang on to a man, and so save themselves all trouble in future. Votes: 0

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves. Votes: 0

The description of the world that most people have is very limited. They are in the fog. Once in a while a genuine insight comes through. Votes: 0

Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism. Votes: 0

Faith is the physical description of God. That's what He is. It's the only word we have in our language to accurately describe His physical form. Votes: 0

You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl. That's part of the job description, Mr. Maxfield. Votes: 0

A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its description is a foremost resource of the art of fiction. Votes: 0

Line is so versatile - you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or simply put a line around an idea - like a cartoonist. Votes: 0

Most people we observe who practice self-discovery just get caught up in a new description, a new "ism", a new religion, a new god. But nothing changes. Votes: 0

Most people we observe who practice self-discovery just get caught up in a new description, a new "ism", a new religion, a new god. But nothing changes. Votes: 0

I have nothing to tell except travellers' stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it. Votes: 0

At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Baalbec and Palmyra. Votes: 0

To say that a man is made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for those who intend to use him as a fertilizer. Votes: 0

The light in her eyes was beyond description, yet it did not instill improper thoughts: it inspired a love tempered by awe, purifying the hearts it inflamed. Votes: 0

I won't read a book that starts with a description of the weather. I don't read books over 300 pages, though I'll make an exception for Don Delillo. Votes: 0

What are you? (a Daimon) Oh please, let me give you the job description. Me, Dark-Hunter. You, Daimon. I hit, you bleed. I kill, you die. (Zarek) Votes: 0

A snarky but accurate description of monetary policy over the past five years is that the Federal Reserve successfully replaced the technology bubble with a housing bubble Votes: 0

This is exactly how the World Wide Web works: the HTML files are the pithy description on the paper tape, and your Web browser is Ronald Reagan. Votes: 0

When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find this a very consolatory question. Votes: 0

The sorcerer's description of the world is perceivable. But our insistence on holding on to our standard version of reality renders us almost deaf and blind to it. Votes: 0

It's been said that alcoholics are egomaniacs with low self -esteem. It's the prefect description. Being larger than life and yet your pride is crushed with self- loathing. Votes: 0

Cut your manuscript ruthlessly but never throw anything away: it's amazing how often a discarded scene or description, which wouldn't fit in one place, will work perfectly later. Votes: 0

Like most Christians, I believe the Genesis account of creation is a description of six different stages of creation, each of which may have taken eons of time. Votes: 0

We really have no choice in the matter. We are given a description of the world that is much more potent and much deeper than you might realize. Votes: 0

Humanities deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for continuing our quest. and our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in. Votes: 0

I have observed that as long as one lives and bestirs himself, he can always find food and raiment, though it may not be of the choicest description. Votes: 0

The things worth writing about, and the things worth reading about, are the things that feel almost beyond description at the start and are, because of that, frightening. Votes: 0

The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe. Votes: 0

These truths may seem simple and self-apparent and the words easy to say, but the states of mind that you live in as you progress are beautiful beyond description. Votes: 0

I 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: 0

Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be. Votes: 0

Laws of nature don't know they are "fixed." That's a human pattern seeking description that comes out of our need to survive. It isn't an objective description of anything. Votes: 0

If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point. Votes: 0

When you realize that there's a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you've identified the problem, and now you can do something about it. Votes: 0

The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn. Votes: 0

Neither believe nor reject any thing because any other person, or description of persons have rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven... Votes: 0

I think sensitive is the wrong description of me. I'm British, actually, so quite bad at expressing myself in conversation, as any ex-girlfriend will tell you. I'm probably emotionally stunted. Votes: 0

The prescription of the equality of human beings is not a description of an alleged actual equality among humans: it is a prescription of how we should treat human beings. Votes: 0

To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture. Votes: 0

I 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: 0

I just never did buy this idea that you have to live in Los Angeles to be an actor. I didn't see that as a requirement in my job description. Votes: 0

I wish I were better at straightforward description. I feel like I'm usually overdoing it or underdoing it, and it takes a lot of tweaking to get the details right. Votes: 0

A lot of young people who I employ expect a raise after three months or expect not to have to put in more work than what's in their job description. Votes: 0

As a militant troublemaker, I once wrote that it was the duty of every woman worthy of the description to upset men at least three times a day, on principle. Votes: 0

You write the facts as you see them, and there isn't a lull with a lot of description. No wonder people like to write about murder mysteries and dead bodies! Votes: 0

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: 0

It is possible--indeed possible even according to the old conception of logic--to give in advance a description of all 'true' logical propositions. Hence there can never be surprises in logic. Votes: 0

Love scenes, if genuine, are indescribable; for to those who have enacted them the most elaborate description seems tame, and to those who have not, the simplest picture seems overdone. Votes: 0

I don't have the strength to keep writing this. To go on living with this feeling is painful beyond description. Isn't there someone kind enough to strangle me in my sleep? Votes: 0

Despite the unrivaled empirical success of quantum theory, the very suggestion that it may be literally true as a description of nature is still greeted with cynicism, incomprehension, and even anger. Votes: 0

I'd like to be seen as an average Australian bloke. I can't think of... I can't think of a nobler description of anybody than to be called an average Australian bloke. Votes: 0

Mathematics is one of the deepest and most powerful expressions of pure human reason, and, at the same time, the most fundamental resource for description and analysis of the experiential world. Votes: 0

I can be described as many things, but no description of me is complete without saying 'Englishman.' My parents were from Liverpool and emigrated to Canada before I was born. Votes: 0

The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being. Votes: 0

To have children is a double living, the earthly fountain of youth, a continual fresh delight, a volcano as well as a fountain, and also a source of weariness beyond description ... Votes: 0

Women do not help each other attain enlightenment because in the description of the world they've been given, unlike that of men, it's every woman for herself in order to survive. Votes: 0

Most of what Congress does fits the description of forcing one American to serve the purposes of another American. That description differs only in degree, but not in kind, from slavery. Votes: 0

It's just I hate reading the description 'offbeat' about a character in a script, because I, along with Seth Green, Jamie Kennedy and a few others, have cornered the market on 'offbeat. Votes: 0

The theist must present an intelligible description of god. Until he does so, god makes no more sense than unie; both are cognitively empty, and any attempt at proof is logically absurd. Votes: 0

The terrain of the mysteries is the ordinary. To seek out mystery, we don't have to go anywhere. We must simply change our preception, our description, our consciousness of where we are. Votes: 0

Intricately plotted, beautifully paced, The Music of the Spheres is an elegant historical novel rich in detail, at times Dickensian in its description of London. Elizabeth Redfern has made an exciting debut. Votes: 0

There is nothing like wine for conjuring up feelings of contentment and goodwill. It is less of a drink than an experience, an evocation, a spirit. It produces sensations that defy description. Votes: 0

The pursuit of the vibrant seems to be the universal job description of the nation's city planners nowadays. It is also part of the Obama administration's economic recovery strategy for the nation. Votes: 0

When you get past making labels for things, it is possible to combine and transform elements into new things. Look at things until their import, identity, name, use, and description have dissolved. Votes: 0

Use description of landscape to help you establish the emotional tone of the scene. Keep notes of how other authors establish mood and foreshadow events by describing the world around the character. Votes: 0

I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything, have one primary concern - mankind. Votes: 0

Ethnography literally means 'a portrait of a people.' An ethnography is a written description of a particular culture - the customs, beliefs, and behavior - based on information collected through fieldwork. Votes: 0

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having. Votes: 0

Generalizations about the "way women are" and estimates of what is appropriate for most women no longer justify denying opportunity to women whose talent and capacity place them outside the average description. Votes: 0

The cause, then, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the conditions, positive and negative, taken together; the whole of the contingencies of every description, which being realized, the consequent invariably follows. Votes: 0

Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe them to you, and to- morrow you arrive there, and know them by inhabiting them. Votes: 0

It's the nature of hearts to break. It's in their job description. When a heart is doing what it's supposed to be doing, it holds nothing back. And sometimes it gets broken. Votes: 0

When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love, we become singers of grief and weavers of elegant description. Votes: 0

Thus the theory of description matters most. It is the theory of the word for those For whom the word is the making of the world, The buzzing world and lisping firmament. Votes: 0

We can all reduce our life to a description that makes people feel sorry for ourselves or we can expand our life to a dimension where we connect and give to others. Votes: 0

It is hard to see how one could begin to develop a quantum-theoretical description of brain action when one might well have to regard the brain as "observing itself" all the time! Votes: 0

The description you have been given of the world is an aberrant one. It does not accept and give proper place to the nagual, to the mysterious unknown that is our heritage. Votes: 0

No one will be alive by the last book. In fact, they all die in the fifth. The sixth book will be just a thousand-page description of snow blowing across the graves ... Votes: 0

Every animal that walks the earth, or swims, or flies is precious beyond description, something so rare and wonderful that it equals the stars or the ocean or the mind of man. Votes: 0

There's something about rushing water that I can watch for hours and feel as if I need to do nothing more. It's alive in a way that's greater than any description of it... Votes: 0

I met soldiers coming back from war and I was impressed by their description of PTSD, all the symptoms: the outburst of violence, the impossibility to cope with reality anymore, all that stuff. Votes: 0

I start with voice, maybe a sentence. That sentence might embody an image, and I go from there. One sentence to the next. Sound drives the work these days - sound before description. Votes: 0

She looked at me for a second and said, "Oh, never mind. I guess it's true what Mom said? That you've led a sheltered life?"I said I thought the description fairly apt." Votes: 0

The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be. Votes: 0

Diversity, or the state of being different, isn't the same as inclusion. One is a description of what is, while the other describes a style of interaction essential to effective teams and organizations. Votes: 0

She looked at me for a second and said, "Oh, never mind. I guess it's true what Mom said? That you've led a sheltered life?"I said I thought the description fairly apt. Votes: 0

If I don't have a project going, I sit down and begin to write something - a character sketch, a monologue, a description of some sight, or even just a list of ideas. Votes: 0

My very first products were hand-made, one-of-a-kind pins. When I finally realized I could repeat a phrase to make multiples, intellectuals gone bad, a fairly succinct description of my own life, seemed appropriate. Votes: 0

There is no description, no image in any book that is capable of replacing the sight of real trees, and all of the life to be found around them in a real forest. Votes: 0

I've come to see the mosh pit as an apt description of American society - and of my childhood home. I was number nine of ten creative, mostly loud kids competing for airspace. Votes: 0

Every specific human being, however, thinks, judges, imagines, wills and expresses himself or herself in a unique, dissimilar, and unrepeatable mode--a mode of unpredictable difference, or otherness, which objectively defies description or delimitation. Votes: 0

Here's the problem: the description of the world is always reduced to yes or no, black or white. Superficial stories. Superhero stories. One side is the good one. The other one is evil. Votes: 0

It seems to me the worst of all the plagues is the slug, the snail without a shell. He is beyond description repulsive, a mass of sooty, shapeless slime, and he devours everything. Votes: 0

It's just I hate reading the description 'offbeat' about a character in a script, because I, along with Seth Green, Jamie Kennedy and a few others, have cornered the market on 'offbeat.' Votes: 0

Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description. Votes: 0

We are looking for a complete, coherent, and simple understanding of reality. Given what we know about the universe, there seems to be no reason to invoke God as part of this description. Votes: 0

I have this tattooed on my left side! I love the saying and it's a perfect description of Karma, don't judge/discriminate and don't do to someone what you wouldn't want done to you. Votes: 0

Writers aren't in competition with one another. It isn't a zero sum game. If you have a good book, a good cover, a good product description, and a low price, you can sell well. Votes: 0

To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are an accurate scientific description of the means of survival. Votes: 0

Screenplays are not writing. They're a fake form of writing. It's a lot of dialogue and very little atmosphere. Very little description. Very little character work. It's very dangerous. You'll never learn to write. Votes: 0

The only object of theoretical physics is to calculate results that can be compared with experiment... it is quite unnecessary that any satisfactory description of the whole course of the phenomena should be given. Votes: 0

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was. Votes: 0

The Tea Party is simply a loose description of local activism driven by Americans who want smaller government and more self-reliance. That sounds like what the Founding Fathers had in mind, does it not? Votes: 0

I was trying in 'The Power of the Dog' to write a brutally accurate in-your-face, if you will, description of 30 years in the war on drugs. And the effect that that had on people. Votes: 0

Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show that. Votes: 0

There are hopes, the bloom of whose beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of description; too lovely, too delicate, too sacred for words, they should only be known through the sympathy of hearts. Votes: 0

In this book I do not intend to give a blow-by-blow description of a sex bout: I find them inartistic, clinical and unpoetic. The circumstances that lead up to sex I find more interesting. Votes: 0

The ecclesiastical description of Hell is that of a horrible place of fire and torment; in Dante's Inferno, and in northern climes, it was thought to be an icy cold region, a giant refrigerator. Votes: 0

A book can just be a description of a stick being snapped in half. If the reader is brought to feel the plight of the stick, well, you can imagine what that would be like. Votes: 0

When we have this description, of what a sketch is, itsattributes, we can then start inventing new things thatshare those attributes, and therefore improve our currenttechnics by inventing new and better tools that help ussketch. Votes: 0

Ok. You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me a sensitive side, then you turn into a total asshole. Is this a pretty accurate description of our relationship. Votes: 0

As unbalanced parties of every description can never tolerate a free inquiry of any kind, when employed against themselves, the license, and even the most temperate freedom of the press, soon excite resentment and revenge. Votes: 0

Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far with description. I think you've got to keep it short, crisp and clean. Votes: 0

No prosaic description can portray the grandeur of 40 miles of rugged mountains rising beyond a placid lake in which each shadowy precipice and each purple gorge is reflected with a vividness that rivals the original. Votes: 0

To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling things deeply and writing them down is basically my job description. Votes: 0

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort. Votes: 0

Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it is simply a description of what going back is like. Votes: 0

Christianity also stands in opposition to intellectual, as well as physical, health. To doubt becomes sin. 'Faith means not wanting to know what it true' a description that strikes me as stunning and quite exact. Votes: 0

The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification. Votes: 0

Ridicule, the weapon of all others most feared by enthusiasts of every description, and which from its predominance over such minds, often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble. Votes: 0

I'm a visual thinker. With almost all of my writing, I start with something that's visual: either the way someone says something that is visual or an actual visual description of a scene and color. Votes: 0

[John's Adams] description of [Benjamin] Franklin in a letter to [his wife] Abigail in 1775 is laudatory. Only when he experiences all the adulation paid to Franklin in Paris does he begin to change his tune. Votes: 0

Keep any description of trouble or sickness or error minimal, for there is something inside which is listening, and it says, 'Oh! You like this! I will make you a lot more of it.' Votes: 0

I have no decision-making role at all in my job description. I would have liked an explanation as to why I was moved from first base coach to the ambassadorship, but none was ever given. Votes: 0

Corporate types love to pretend their life is exciting. The whispers, fist-pumping and animated hand gestures are all designed to lift our job description from what it really is - that of an overpaid clerk Votes: 0

Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far with description. I think you've got to keep it short, crisp and clean Votes: 0

Any description of a person that comes from the outside is very hard to deal with. People don't like being summarised. It's nice to receive a compliment, but it makes me feel a bit uncomfortable. Votes: 0

I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works. Votes: 0

Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless. Votes: 0

I think the word 'social entrepreneur' is a really good description of what I am. What that means me to is that you have the entrepreneurial gift and spirit to create something out of nothing. Votes: 0