Description Quotes - Page 3

Addiction is not a fact of life but a description about how we are choosing to live.

One cannot build a future based on the description of a criminal past.

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

We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.

When we have this description, of what a sketch is, itsattributes, we can then start inventing new things thatshare those attributes, and therefore improve our currenttechnics by inventing new and better tools that help ussketch.

It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.

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

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

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

Science is the description of phenomena and the formulation of their relations.

Whatever my job description consists of, becomes my job. Maybe it's just the way I tackle work, in general.

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

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.

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.

For me, good description usually consists of a few well-chosen details that will stand for everything else.

Don't be limited by your job description.

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

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

What we take anything to be profoundly affects how we go about describing it, and how we describe something profoundly affects how we go about explaining, accounting for, or understanding what is what we are, in a sense, defining, by our description.

'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.

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

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

One single glance will conquer all descriptions.

The power we call God defies description.

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.