Description Quotes
If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point.
The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is.
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.
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.
I call myself a playmaker sometimes - but that's just a word. I don't feel like I have to have a title or a job description.
The last person I ever want working for me is someone who says 'that's not in my job description.
When philosophers try to understand consciousness, much of what they claim is not conceptual analysis at all, though it may be shopped under that description.
Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.
I met soldiers coming back from war and I was impressed by their description of PTSD, all the symptoms: the outburst of violence, the impossibility to cope with reality anymore, all that stuff.
Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far with description. I think you've got to keep it short, crisp and clean
There are hopes, the bloom of whose beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of description; too lovely, too delicate, too sacred for words, they should only be known through the sympathy of hearts.
Scatterbrain is one of those harmless little words you use a million times... Then it turns up in a crime scene description.
My opinion with respect to immigration is, that except of useful mechanics and some particular description of men and professions, there is no use of encouragement.
Every animal that walks the earth, or swims, or flies is precious beyond description, something so rare and wonderful that it equals the stars or the ocean or the mind of man.
There's something about rushing water that I can watch for hours and feel as if I need to do nothing more. It's alive in a way that's greater than any description of it.
I have no decision-making role at all in my job description. I would have liked an explanation as to why I was moved from first base coach to the ambassadorship, but none was ever given.
I am ever more intrigued by the correspondence between mathematics and physical facts. The adaptability of mathematics to the description of physical phenomena is uncanny.
landscape, that vast still life, invites description, not narration. It is lyric. It has no story: it is the beloved, and asks only to be contemplated.
Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.
And when you clear away the cobwebs of the description of every job in the world, at the bottom of that job is service. It's service. And I took that ethic and applied it to my writing craft.
The less serious running of any description which an athlete indulges in before eighteen, the better for his future prospects.
The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.
One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't.
Needless to say, there was no one around remotely fitting the description of a normal person: I was at a writing conference.
I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
That's what alcoholics do. It's in their job description: fall apart and then keep falling apart.
The Book of Revelation is a description of one path to the New Jerusalem, but this scenario is not inevitable.
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
My job is to watch the powerful. It's a simple job description, watch powerful people and make sure they don't hurt the folks.
I really like 'This Side of Paradise' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I think it's a cool description of a character.
When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find this a very consolatory question.
I just try to be honest, because I think that's part of my job description as a writer.
I'd like to find someone to procreate with - as sexy as that sounds. If you're out and about and fit the description, come up and say hi. I won't bite. Well, maybe a little, if you're lucky.
When I see people talking on the internet about me or my work it's almost always more a description of themselves and so I never really think of myself as anything more than just who I always was.
It is often said that reading is a gift, but to my mind that is an insufficient description, for the size of the gift of reading is so vast that it is difficult to see what is outside its wrapping.
I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all.
