Best 451 quotes in «description quotes» category

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

My job description is... being enthusiastic.

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.

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.

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.

The description is not the described.

The job description for a queen changes with the times.

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

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 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.

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 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 world doesn't yield to us directly, the description of the world stands in between. So, properly speaking, we are always one step removed and our experiences of the world is always a recollection of the experience. We are perennially recollecting the instant that has just happened, just passed. Re recollect, recollect, recollect.

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

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

To me, self-description is a calamity.

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.

Trade is a social act. Whoever undertakes to sell any description of any goods to the public, does what affects the interest of other persons, and of society in general; and thus his conduct, in principal, comes within the jurisdiction of society.

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

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

What appear to us to be causal explanations are in fact just stories—descriptions of what happened that tell us little, if anything, about the mechanisms at work.

We live in a description of reality.