Description Quotes

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

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

Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal.

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

God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification

I can be described as many things, but no description of me is complete without saying 'Englishman.' My parents were from Liverpool and emigrated to Canada before I was born.

How can you run for president if you dont know the job description?

This is exactly how the World Wide Web works: the HTML files are the pithy description on the paper tape, and your Web browser is Ronald Reagan.

the description of lust was simple: two people learn they're compatible , attraction grows, and the ancient instinct to preserve the species kicks in.

I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in their head.

I start with voice, maybe a sentence. That sentence might embody an image, and I go from there. One sentence to the next. Sound drives the work these days - sound before description.

A good game has to have a fun core, which is a one-sentence description of why it's fun.

This principle that judges are not politicians lies at the very heart of a judicial job - of the judicial job description.

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

Lying to the American people wasn’t part of my job description.

That's what I'm trying to get over: the idea that anarchism offers a description of equitable relations that go way back rather than a hypothesis of what the future should look like.

Politicians, it's in their job description to just lie, every day.

Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs.

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

Amy Winehouse - her surname's beginning to sound like a description of her liver.

I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.

Don't be limited by your job description.

Humanities deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for continuing our quest. and our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in.

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

Commentating, illustrating, description giving, adjective expert, analyzing, surmising musical myth seeking people of the universe, this is yours.

"You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl. That's part of the job description, Mr. Maxfield."

The pursuit of the vibrant seems to be the universal job description of the nation's city planners nowadays. It is also part of the Obama administration's economic recovery strategy for the nation.

Neither believe nor reject any thing because any other person, or description of persons have rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven.

Temptation is impossible for me to resist Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description.

Like most Christians, I believe the Genesis account of creation is a description of six different stages of creation, each of which may have taken eons of time.

The light in her eyes was beyond description, yet it did not instill improper thoughts: it inspired a love tempered by awe, purifying the hearts it inflamed.

The photograph [of Che Guevara], for a civilization now accustomed to thinking in images, was not the description of a single event... it was an argument.

I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person.

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

There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find out what is wrong with a stalled motorcar. In each case it is special knowledge.

There's nothing the world loves more than a ready-made description which they can hang on to a man, and so save themselves all trouble in future.

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.

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

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

Eloquence is painted thought, and thus those who, after having painted it, add somewhat more, make a picture, not a portrait.

He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.

To label myself is similar to thinking that I can come up with a single phrase to explain the universe.

... there was no need for him to hasten towards the attainment of a happiness already captured and held in a safe place, which would not escape his grasp again.

Unless they are off duty, no matter how wide it is, and even when it is sincere, a smile seems fake if the job description of the person who is smiling includes smiling.

There is little more I can add short of dissecting the man, or going into intimate details such as the modest proportions and slight southeasterly curvature of his manhood.

The only thing that comes close to defining me correctly is my love.

Everything about her was sweet, pale like honey. You would not have been surprised to see a bee caught in the tangles of that yellow hair.

Awestruck, Flora stared at the dishevelled sisters with their blazing faces and radiant ragged wings, who smelled of no kin but the wild high air.

Beauty without a character is a waste.

I look out at the reservation, still and glittering with casinos, and think of all the death dried up and buried in its dirt.