I regret very much that I have painted a picture that requires any description. — Winslow Homer Copy Share Image
For me, good description usually consists of a few well-chosen details that will stand for everything else. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It is incumbent upon every person of every description to contribute to his country's welfare. — George Washington Copy Share Image
A singer is someone who puts out an album. That's a very generous description. — Kirsten Dunst Copy Share Image
God doesn't call people to a job description, He calls people to Himself and His mission in the world. — Louie Giglio Copy Share Image
Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt. — Susie Orbach Copy Share Image
An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“He looked as if he had been beaten to death with a wine bottle, but by doing it with the contents of… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
Whereas most other modern composers are engaged in manufacturing cocktails of every hue and description, I offer the public pure cold water. — Jean Sibelius Copy Share Image
Screenplays are not writing. They're a fake form of writing. It's a lot of dialogue and very little atmosphere. Very little description.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
“She was strong and stubborn but loving. She was an untouchable angel with a devil’s mark. She was beautiful.” — Shannon A. Thompson Copy Share Image
Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description. — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
I've come to see the mosh pit as an apt description of American society - and of my childhood home. I was… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
The mandated description of fetal characteristics at two-week intervals, no matter how objective, is plainly overinclusive. [It is] not medical information that… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
If the resurrection of Jesus cannot be believed except by assenting to the fantastic descriptions included in the Gospels, then Christianity is… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“Some boys walk by and you cry, seeing them. They feel good, they look good, they are good. Oh, they're not above… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
For myself, the only way I know how to make a book is to construct it like a collage: a bit of… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“It’s not about describing someone as that’s typically an attempt to make whatever they are comfortable for whoever we are. Instead, we… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Well, I don't ever leave out details, in that I don't come up with information or description which I don't then use.… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
“The viscountess had raised the forefinger of her right hand and made a pretty gesture toward a stool at her feet. There… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
“There was a short railway official travelling up to the terminus, three fairly short market-gardeners picked up two stations afterwards, one very… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Dr. Morris soon recognized that the difference between successful and unsuccessful marriages can often be traced to how well couples are able… — James Dobson Copy Share Image
“On the floor beside the spare pillow that had tumbled from the bed in her sleep was a single yellow flower. Five… — Hazel Gaynor Copy Share Image
We normally think of history as one catastrophe after another, war followed by war, outrage by outrage - almost as if history… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
“Somewhere int he flesh of the earth the dreadful earthquake shuddered, the tide walked to and fro on the leash of the… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
My needs were simple I didn't bother much with themes or felicitous phrases and skipped fine descriptions of weather, landscapes and interiors.… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
As a progressive discipline [biochemistry] belongs to the present century. From the experimental physiologists of the last century it obtained a charter,… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins Copy Share Image
The person who is working on his or her family history fits the description of one who is fulfilling his or her… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Terminus sniffed. “I guard borders. I don’t kill giants. It’s not in my job description. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“I steal," Winkle said, with a smile that said I’m joking and a glint in his eye that said I’m not.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor. — John McGahern Copy Share Image
“If it has a name or a description it has or will exist at some point in time” — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
That still feels like the most accurate description - I felt homesick, but I was home. — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
How can you run for president if you dont know the job description? — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image