Best 451 quotes in «description quotes» category

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

My job description is... being enthusiastic.

Of all the many memoirs by former Soviet officials, Palazchenko's is among the best written and also the most objective. Even his descriptions of U.S. policy are more accurate and judicious than those of some American scholars.

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

One single glance will conquer all descriptions.

Recipes are just descriptions of one person’s take on one moment in time. They’re not rules.

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

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

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

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

Sisters ruin everything. It's in their job description.

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

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

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.

Terminus sniffed. “I guard borders. I don’t kill giants. It’s not in my job description.

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

The description and explanation is the best part of music reviewing. There is such a thing, and you know it too, as a gift for judgment. If you have it, you can say anything you like. If you haven't got it, you don't know you haven't got it.

The description is not the described.

The fundamental principle in the analysis of propositions containing descriptions is this: Every proposition which we can understand must be composed wholly of constituents with which we are acquainted.

The observer and the universe are part of the same universe. It's what science discovered at the beginning of this century, when they say you can't tell where an atomic particle is. You know where they are, but not their speed; or you know their speed but not their place, because it depends on you. The one who describes is part of the description.

The job description for a queen changes with the times.

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

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

The observer cannot be left out of the description of the observation.

The old, slow, creaking descriptions are a thing of the past; today the rule is brevity - but every word must be supercharged, high-voltage.