Description Quotes

Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it is simply a description of what going back is like.

The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena.

At boarding schools of every description, the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief; and of the senior, vice.

Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless.

It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.

It is hard to see how one could begin to develop a quantum-theoretical description of brain action when one might well have to regard the brain as "observing itself" all the time!

Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.

No matter what the job description says, your real job is to make the boss look good.

When you get past making labels for things, it is possible to combine and transform elements into new things. Look at things until their import, identity, name, use, and description have dissolved.

My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City.

Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description.

The power of the rosary is beyond description.

Words and ideas are a description of reality, silence is a negation of reality. What is the reality itself?

There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.

Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.

I can't please everyone. That's not in my J.D., you know, not in my job description.

The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe.

However well equipped our language, it can never be forearmed against all possible cases that may arise and call for description: fact is richer than diction.

The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title

Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man.

Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.

Love is something so divine, Description would but make it less; 'Tis what I feel, but can't define, 'Tis what I know but can't express

I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping.

Descriptions of my work depress me. They make me feel pinned down.

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

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

I don't like the word 'businesswoman.' Perhaps 'committed mother' would be the best description.

The artist's morality lies in the force and truth of his description.

My job description is that I'm a rock star. And I'm good at it.

That still feels like the most accurate description - I felt homesick, but I was home.

The ecclesiastical description of Hell is that of a horrible place of fire and torment; in Dante's Inferno, and in northern climes, it was thought to be an icy cold region, a giant refrigerator.

It's been said that alcoholics are egomaniacs with low self -esteem. It's the prefect description. Being larger than life and yet your pride is crushed with self- loathing.

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

String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string.

I have this tattooed on my left side! I love the saying and it's a perfect description of Karma, don't judge/discriminate and don't do to someone what you wouldn't want done to you.

What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer.

The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action.

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

Line is so versatile - you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or simply put a line around an idea - like a cartoonist.

Multiple descriptions are better than one.

Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'

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

I take issue with many people's description of people being illegal Immigrants. There aren't any illegal Human Beings as far as I'm concerned.

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

Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact.

Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.

To me, self-description is a calamity.

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