Best 451 quotes in «description quotes» category

. . . where an iron bedstead was wrapped in stillness.

While the bible is GOD because the word of GOD is GOD, please understand that GOD cannot be contained in the bible. To believe otherwise is to make an infinite GOD finite.

. . . while we cooed and fretted and bent our faces into sympathetic shapes in his direction.

Why so sad?" Zach queries in fairy-tale tones. "Rachel?" "O my brother Ivanushka," she recites. "A heavy stone is round my throat, silken grass grows through my fingers, yellow sand lies on my breast." "That's perishing gloomy," Zach remarks. "It ends happily though. Gracious! Everything sounds depressing this morning," adds Rachel. "There's a teacher at my school, she's very young, but she goes, Gracious! Just like a dowager. Makes me laugh. Except this morning. I can't help it. I am too depressed. I hate those voices so much. In the Gardens." "Stop listening," Zach scolds and put his hands in her hair—silken grass grows through his fingers.

With his fair hair and milky skin and rosy cheeks, he looks like he could be an English farmer’s son. But he’s slim, so maybe the sensitive farmer’s son who steals away to the barn to read.

Your personality should be described in poem not in paragraph.

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.

Wings of a half finished book across his chest.

... with a quiet suggestion of infinity...

You can be so much in a room that the world outside turns to water. You've got the heater blowing out burnt air, but you still don't get warm. Your ankles are singed, but your head's in a bucket of ice. Time drips like a stalactite. The water for the coffee boils away in a tree of steam.

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

All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Charm is that extra quality that defies description.

Damn description, it is always disgusting.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

How can you run for president if you dont know the job 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.

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 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 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 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.

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 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 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 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 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.

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 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.

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.