Description Quotes - Page 4

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

I wanted to be the conduit for somebody else's experiences, filtered through me, and passed on to other people. Which is the job description, really.

I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description.

I have observed that as long as one lives and bestirs himself, he can always find food and raiment, though it may not be of the choicest description.

Faith is the physical description of God. That's what He is. It's the only word we have in our language to accurately describe His physical form.

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

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.

But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

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.

Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism.

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.

Alphas simply did not grovel; arrogance was part of the job description.

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

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

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.

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

It's definitely part of my job description not to be too fat.

Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.

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.

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

I feel that I'm solid at description.

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

That's what alcoholics do. It's in their job description: fall apart and then keep falling apart.

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

What is your one-sentence job description?