Description Quotes

518 quotes by 433 authors

Corporate types love to pretend their life is exciting. The whispers, fist-pumping and animated hand gestures are all designed to lift our job description from… — Chetan Bhagat
[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons… — Anton Chekhov
You surely can't be trying to blame us for Erak's habit of charging ashore waving an axe and grabbing everything that isn't nailed down? No… — John Flanagan
Conflict is the microscope of a book. When it's trained on a character, you see what's underneath the narratives of physical description. You see whether… — J R Ward
Itâ€™s a gift to joyfully recognize and accept our own smallness and ordinariness. Then you are free with nothing to live up to, nothing to… — Richard Rohr
the description of lust was simple: two people learn they're compatible , attraction grows, and the ancient instinct to preserve the species kicks in. — Nicholas Sparks
The Divine was beyond description, beyond knowing, beyond comprehension. To say that the Divine was Creation divided by Destruction was as close as one could… — Tom Robbins
Ankh-Morpork! Pearl of cities! This is not a completely accurate description, of course â€” it was not round and shiny â€” but even its worst… — Terry Pratchett
I was vanquished by a deer!' A giant magical flying deer with fangs,' Seth said, parroting a description Gavin had shared earlier. That sounds a… — Brandon Mull
The Master made it his task to destroy systematically every doctrine, every belief, every concept of the divine, for these things, which were originally intended… — Anthony de Mello
Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description. — Anthony de Mello
The prince's official job description as king will be 'defender of the faith,' which currently means the state-financed absurdity of the Anglican Church, but he… — Christopher Hitchens
What are you? (a Daimon) Oh please, let me give you the job description. Me, Dark-Hunter. You, Daimon. I hit, you bleed. I kill, you… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
The Four Noble Truths are pragmatic rather than dogmatic. They suggest a course of action to be followed rather than a set of dogmas to… — Stephen Batchelor
Photographers tend not to photograph what they canâ€™t see, which is the very reason one should try to attempt it. Otherwise weâ€™re going to go… — Duane Michals
I take issue with many people's description of people being "Illegal" Immigrants. There aren't any illegal Human Beings as far as I'm concerned. — Dennis Kucinich
The great object of life is Sensation - to feel that we exist - even though in pain - it is this "craving void" which… — Lord Byron
Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine. — Ellen Hopkins
I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened by actions. — Jack Kerouac
Capturing the beauty of the conversion of the water into wine, the poet Alexander Pope said, "The conscious water saw its Master and blushed." That… — Ravi Zacharias

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