Description Quotes

518 quotes by 442 authors

Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the… — Gore Vidal
There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find out what is… — W. Somerset Maugham
There's nothing the world loves more than a ready-made description which they can hang on to a man, and so save themselves all trouble in… — W. Somerset Maugham
One single glance will conquer all descriptions. — Martin Farquhar Tupper
The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New… — Horace Walpole
Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work process - in… — Nigel Rees
Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight. — Duane Michals
Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one… — Gregory Bateson
Nancy Drew was always changing her outfits. I despised girls' clothing, I couldn't wait to get home from school and get out of it. The… — Alison Bechdel
The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live… — William Irwin Thompson
I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try… — Vanessa Lengies
If I don't have a project going, I sit down and begin to write something - a character sketch, a monologue, a description of some… — Thomas Perry
I wanted to be the conduit for somebody else's experiences, filtered through me, and passed on to other people. Which is the job description, really. — Juliet Stevenson
It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit, or analogy supply;… — Samuel Johnson
There is no point in being a responsible member of society, nor is there any point in being an irresponsible member of society. Both are… — Frederick Lenz
These truths may seem simple and self-apparent and the words easy to say, but the states of mind that you live in as you progress… — Frederick Lenz
The single most important technique for making progress is to write ten words. Doesn't matter if you're badly stuck, or your day is completely jam-packed,… — Naomi Novik
The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization, in his mind,… — Criss Jami
It's just I hate reading the description 'offbeat' about a character in a script, because I, along with Seth Green, Jamie Kennedy and a few… — Breckin Meyer
Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal. — Max Weber

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