Description Quotes
518 quotes by 433 authors
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You’re a guardian angel now.â€.... I’m your guardian angel,†he said. “I get my very own guardian angel? What, exactly, is your job description?†“Guard…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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Don't go into great detail describing places and things, unless you're ÂMargaret Atwood and can paint scenes with language. You don't want descriptions that bring…
— Elmore Leonard
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What the—Have you been crying?" Tohrment demanded. "Are you all right? Dear God, is it the baby?" "Tohr, relax. I'm a female, I cry at…
— J R Ward
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Pain is pain. It needs no description.
— Christopher Paolini
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I don't have the strength to keep writing this. To go on living with this feeling is painful beyond description. Isn't there someone kind enough…
— RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa
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The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural…
— Albert Einstein
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I speak and speak,†Marco says, “but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. The description of the world to which you lend…
— Italo Calvino
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And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only silence.
— Mark Z. Danielewski
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No religion I ever encountered made any sense. None are consistent. Most gods are megalomaniacs and paranoid psychotics by their worshippers' description. I don't see…
— Glen Cook
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When you realize that there's a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you've identified the problem, and now you…
— Anthony Kiedis
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Was it me you were discussing?†he countered with lifted brows. “I couldn’t tell from the description you were giving. Since when am I kind,…
— Judith McNaught
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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
— Alan Watts
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Revealingly, the central function of the Constitution as law--the supreme law--was to impose limitations not on the behavior of ordinary citizens but on the federal…
— Glenn Greenwald
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Does she still love you?" "I don't think so," Magnus said dryly. "She wasn't very pleasant the last time I saw her. Of course, that…
— Cassandra Clare
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You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl. That's part of the job description, Mr.…
— Tammara Webber
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Just listen,†she said. “You can’t kill him in cold blood.†“Whyever not?†Ye gods grant me patience. “Because he’ll be dead,†she said as…
— Loretta Chase
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Alphas simply did not grovel; arrogance was part of the job description.
— Gail Carriger
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I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping.
— Dean Young
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My needs were simple I didn't bother much with themes or felicitous phrases and skipped fine descriptions of weather, landscapes and interiors. I wanted characters…
— Ian Mcewan
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Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.
— Anne Enright
Who Wrote These Description Quotes
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