Description Quotes - Page 2

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

Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.

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

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.

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

I have never supported white supremacism but I read this [this description of me] in the papers.

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.

We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place.

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.

We live in a description of reality.

To me, self-description is a calamity.

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

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

What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close.

What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is.

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

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

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.

For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.

The description is not the described.

One who is caught in thought loses one's original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual thing, he fails to perceive it.

Pain is pain. It needs no description.

A picture is never anything but its own plural description.

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

The job description for a queen changes with the times.