Description Quotes

518 quotes by 442 authors

A dream inspiring a story is different than placing a description of a dream in a story. When you describe a character's dream, it has… — Jeff VanderMeer
The pursuit of the vibrant seems to be the universal job description of the nation's city planners nowadays. It is also part of the Obama… — Thomas Frank
Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're… — William Gibson
The main challenge that television presents is that I have a tendency to say things with a great deal of precision and accuracy. Often a… — Brian Greene
America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This… — Ralph Ellison
I feel my fuller-bodied characters are all in the independent films I do, and in the studio productions, I have to work harder to dimensionalize… — Vera Farmiga
There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn't bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins… — Mia Farrow
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. — William Hazlitt
Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations. — Daniel Kahneman
A skilled worker, regardless of the job description, remains a treasure. — Madeleine M. Kunin
Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It's cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype says. This is… — Camilla Lackberg
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul,… — D. H. Lawrence
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two,… — John Locke
I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions… — John Locke
There's an adage that is an apt description of the new dynamic at work between brands and consumers connected through social media: People support what… — Simon Mainwaring
For myself, the only way I know how to make a book is to construct it like a collage: a bit of dialogue here, a… — Hilary Mantel
This is the entertainment industry, so game designers have to have a creative mind and also have to be able to stand up against the… — Shigeru Miyamoto
I can be described as many things, but no description of me is complete without saying 'Englishman.' My parents were from Liverpool and emigrated to… — Mike Myers
I love food. I mean, I really love food. I take pictures of my finest, funniest and most fascinating dishes, post them on Twitter, and… — Rachel Nichols
The Tea Party is simply a loose description of local activism driven by Americans who want smaller government and more self-reliance. That sounds like what… — Bill O'Reilly

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