Description Quotes

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There is no description, no image in any book that is capable of replacing the sight of real trees, and all of the life to… — Maria Montessori
I think 'vegan' is a beautiful word. It is more than just a description for our diet. I see it as a visible template for… — Philip Wollen
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… — Mark Helprin
To be connected with the church is to be associated with scoundrels, warmongers, fakes, child-molesters, murderers, adulterers, and hypocrites of every description. It also, at… — Ronald Rolheiser
When we have this description, of what a sketch is, itsattributes, we can then start inventing new things thatshare those attributes, and therefore improve our… — Bill Buxton
Temptation is impossible for me to resist Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description. — Tom Sizemore
Suicide carries in its aftermath a level of confusion and devastation that is, for the most part, beyond description. — Kay Redfield Jamison
Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff didn't like the word 'horror'. They, like I, went for the French description: 'the theatre of the fantastique'. — Christopher Lee
It is immature and lazy to imagine we know everything there is to know about someone before we know that someone. We don't know their… — Jen Hatmaker
I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description. — John Fowles
Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me. — Hugh Prather
For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped scoops of rainbow… — James Dwight Dana
There never did, there never will, and there never can exist a parliament, or any description of men, or any generation of men, in any… — Thomas Paine
State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not… — John Marshall
The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but… — Isaac Newton
The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description… — Karl Pearson
What makes screenplays difficult are the things that require the most discipline and care and are just not seen by most people. I'm talking about… — Robert Towne
It's easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for me,… — Jhumpa Lahiri
I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor. — John McGahern
Ethnography literally means 'a portrait of a people.' An ethnography is a written description of a particular culture - the customs, beliefs, and behavior -… — Marvin Harris

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