Description Quotes

518 quotes by 442 authors

Indeed, the very first acknowledgment (as far as I am aware) of the attraction of mutilated bodies occurs in a founding description of mental conflict.… — Susan Sontag
A snarky but accurate description of monetary policy over the past five years is that the Federal Reserve successfully replaced the technology bubble with a… — Paul Krugman
Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people. — Jose Padilha
Someone has described the modern American as a person who drives a bank financed car over a bond financed highway on credit card gas to… — Paul Billheimer
I feel as though I am trying to describe a three-dimensional experience while living in a two-dimension world. The appropriate words, descriptions, and concepts don't… — Mary C. Neal
I feel that I'm solid at description. — Christopher Bollen
A lot of people they donâ€™t know that Africans even named the stars, that different peoples, different so-called native peoples, have their own names for… — Gayl Jones
There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all-important,… — Robert A. Heinlein
The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand. The… — William Faulkner
In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom. — Samuel Johnson
One who is caught in thought loses one's original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual thing, he fails… — Dalai Lama
In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music. — Paul Gauguin
A picture is never anything but its own plural description. — Roland Barthes
We live in a description of reality. — Jean Houston
To take a journey of a thousand miles, you have to begin with the first step from the place where you stand; the romantic description… — Vimala Thakar
Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long as possible. Thinking and acting are not contrary to… — Ludwig von Mises
There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events beyond the range… — Ludwig von Mises
To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
Line is so versatile - you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or simply put a line around an idea - like a… — Stan Smith
I admire anyone who can come up with something original. But not originality alone, because there can be originality in stupidity, with no musical description… — Charles Mingus

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