Best 451 quotes in «description quotes» category

Charm is that extra quality that defies description.

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

Damn description, it is always disgusting.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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