Description Quotes

518 quotes by 442 authors

We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action. — Marshall McLuhan
Searching for a better description of this rotting sadness, I came upon the concept of acedia. In Christian theology, itâ€™s an antecedent to sloth, the… — Mishka
I saw that everything famous and beautiful in the world, if we judge by the descriptions and drawings of writers and artists, always loses when… — Giacomo Casanova
I really like 'This Side of Paradise' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I think it's a cool description of a character. — Bridgit Mendler
Satanism encourages its followers to indulge in their natural desires. Only by doing so can you be a completely satisfied person with no frustrations which… — Anton Szandor LaVey
I like to be right. I try not to miss the big ideas, forget the little ones, and try to get them right. End of… — Jeremy Grantham
I loved reading Roald Dahl when I was young but I had forgotten a lot about the books. I read the 'BFG' on the iPad… — Frank Lampard
My job description is... being enthusiastic. — Dhani Harrison
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… — Adriana Trigiani
A random sequence is one that cannot be algorithmically compressed : the shortest description of a random sequence is simply the sequence itself. — Gregory Chaitin
Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone… — Kary Mullis
Your job description as a journalist is to question and scrutinize critically-neve r to repeat claims uncritically, no matter how highly placed the sources in… — Steig Larsson
Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description. — Anna Quindlen
She had her own way of doing all that she did, and this is the simplest description of a character which, although by no means… — Henry James
A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses' tails on cats' bowels, and may be exhaustively described in such… — William James
Few novels truly deserve the description 'rollicking' in the way Mary Novik's Conceit does. A hearty, boiling stew of a novel, served up in rich… — Gail Anderson-Dargatz
When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration of a word;… — Samuel Johnson
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… — Joseph Addison
So near are the boundaries of panegyric and invective, that a worn-out sinner is sometimes found to make the best declaimer against sin. The same… — Charles Lamb

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