Description Quotes

518 quotes by 442 authors

Being a caregiver for your child is part of the job description of being a mammal. — Mayim Bialik
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. — Lord Chesterfield
When I'm not the Tiger Mom, I'm a professor at Yale Law School, and if one thing is clear to me from years of teaching,… — Amy Chua
The First Lady role is really difficult. It has no job description... You have to create it for yourself. — Hillary Clinton
I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a… — Leonard Cohen
What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close. — Tori Amos
Charm is that extra quality that defies description. — Alfred Lunt
Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to them. Patent fees… — Lawrence Hargrave
But if the two countries or governments are at war, the men of science are not. That would, indeed be a civil war of the… — Humphry Davy
Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition of despotism-the last,… — Alexander Hamilton
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… — Fritjof Capra
More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is… — Jonathan Kozol
Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing. — Ishmael Reed
A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens, from the richest to the poorest, as it was the earliest, so… — Thomas Jefferson
Words and ideas are a description of reality, silence is a negation of reality. What is the reality itself? — John Daido Loori
Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the… — Jane Austen
A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to… — George Bernard Shaw
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… — Charles Caleb Colton
All descriptions of matter are descriptions of modes of human perception within consciousness. — Deepak Chopra
Sit not down without assurance. Get alone, and bring thy heart to the bar of trial: force it to answer the interrogatories put to it… — Richard Baxter

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