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You want to stay here and sleep your life away? That's it?" "If you knew what would make you happy, wouldn't you do it?" I asked her. "See, you do want to be happy. Then why did you tell me that being happy is dumb?" she asked. "You said that to me more than once." "Let me be dumb," I said, glugging the NyQuil. "You go be smart and tell me how great it is. I'll be here, hibernating." Reva rolled her eyes. "It's natural," I told her. "People used to hibernate all the time." "People never hibernated. Where are you getting this?" She could look really pathetic when she was outraged. She got up and stood there holding her stupid knockoff Kate Spade bag or whatever it was, her hair pulled back into a ponytail and crowned with a useless, plastic, tortoiseshell headband. She was always getting her hair blown out, her eyebrows waxed into thin, arched, parentheses, her fingernails painted various shades of pink and purple, as though all of this made her a wonderful person. "It's not up for discussion, Reva. This is what I'm doing. If you can't accept it, then you don't have to.

. . . a dirty exterior is a great enemy to beauty of all descriptions.

All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.

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

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.

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

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

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

Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description.

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

Charm is that extra quality that defies description.

Build a shield between yourself and the descriptions of the world that everyone else has.

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.

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

Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine.

But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

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

Discovered W. Somerset Maugham in about 5th grade. Didn't understand the plots, but loved the descriptions.

Damn description, it is always disgusting.

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

German can take a lot more pathos than English can. When you say "pathetic" in English it's a disparaging term, but when you say "pathetisch" in German it's just a description, not necessarily negative. That says a lot already.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I don't think you have to earn your income as an artist to be an artist. But if you are an artist, then art is what you do, whether or not you're paid for doing it; it is what you do, not what you are. I regard artist not as a description of temperament but as a category of profession, of vocation.

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

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

In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

I had vainly been seeking a description of consciousness within science; instead, what I and others have to look for is a description of science within consciousness. We must develop a science compatible with consciousness, our primary experience.

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

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.

I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of pornography), and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.

It is impossible to describe a landscape so validly as to exclude all other descriptions, for no one can see the landscape in all its aspects at the same time, and no single view can prevent the existence and validity of other equally possible views.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Liberals and leftists are not wrong in describing romanticism as reactionary, because it did indeed become that after 1810. The problem is that they make that description true of the movement as a whole, as if romanticism were essentially reactionary.

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

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

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.

J.P. Donleavy - now he's one writer I am consistent with. He's written books that I can definitely connect with. He has amazing insights which other people missed out on. Even with his descriptions of Northern Ireland.

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.

Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people.