Description Quotes
Here's the problem: the description of the world is always reduced to yes or no, black or white. Superficial stories. Superhero stories. One side is the good one. The other one is evil.
To have children is a double living, the earthly fountain of youth, a continual fresh delight, a volcano as well as a fountain, and also a source of weariness beyond description.
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.
Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact.
In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music.
Mathematics is one of the deepest and most powerful expressions of pure human reason, and, at the same time, the most fundamental resource for description and analysis of the experiential world.
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
Most of what Congress does fits the description of forcing one American to serve the purposes of another American. That description differs only in degree, but not in kind, from slavery.
Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations.
In all probability, mental states are processes and activities of the brain. Exactly what activities, and exactly at what level of description, remains to be seen.
The bowler approached the wicket at a lope, a trot, and then a run. He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.
It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.
At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Baalbec and Palmyra.
If I don't have a project going, I sit down and begin to write something - a character sketch, a monologue, a description of some sight, or even just a list of ideas.
Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached.
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.
All I can really say is it's bloodier than hell. In this one I'm going to be much more direct and honest in my description of the actual killings and the crime scene.
What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is.
Many of us knuckle-dragging brush-painters think that 'behind the times' is part of our job description. Why deny ourselves the authentic journey of a time-honoured form?
We can all reduce our life to a description that makes people feel sorry for ourselves or we can expand our life to a dimension where we connect and give to others.
The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.
I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.
As you become more conscious of your body as eternity, a sense of ease, a fullness beyond description occurs.
When I used to model, the job description is 'shut up and pose.' There are people today who would really like me to go back to that old job description and 'just shut up and pose.
Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.
Conceptual art is entirely word-bound. It is, in fact, the kind of art that is exhausted in its verbal description.
No one will be alive by the last book. In fact, they all die in the fifth. The sixth book will be just a thousand-page description of snow blowing across the graves.
Ronnie had it right calling it Torture. That is a much more accurate description the way I see it.
Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.
In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom.
In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.
Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing.
I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.
I just never did buy this idea that you have to live in Los Angeles to be an actor. I didn't see that as a requirement in my job description.
Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.
I lived in a brilliantly lit haze, shifting and flickering according to my changing desires. Of course, that is only a description of being young.
The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is.
I'm a visual thinker. With almost all of my writing, I start with something that's visual: either the way someone says something that is visual or an actual visual description of a scene and color.
Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
