Description Quotes

518 quotes by 442 authors

The light in her eyes was beyond description, yet it did not instill improper thoughts: it inspired a love tempered by awe, purifying the hearts… — Umberto Eco
Itâ€™s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love… — Anthony Bourdain
Nobody would know me from my own description of myself; which is why, when called upon (rarely, I grant) to provide an account, I tailor… — Claire Messud
No one will be alive by the last book. In fact, they all die in the fifth. The sixth book will be just a thousand-page… — George R. R. Martin
A campaign, like a brand, is not just a number of bits put together-a claim here, a pack shot there, a reason why somewhere else.… — Stephen King
Brand planning must continue to paint a vivid description of the consumer today. The challenge is that it can feel like this picture changes daily.… — James W. Moseley
Love is beyond description; but not beyond demonstrating. Love is beyond the mind because it is always new. Any product of the mind is a… — Barry Long
To say that a man is made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for those who intend to use him as… — Hermann Joseph Muller
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. — John McCain
It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any… — Jane Austen
Our normal expectations about reality are created by a social consensus. We are taught how to see and understand the world. The trick of socialization… — Carlos Castaneda
Imagine a man who doesn't believe in anything, hope for anything, doesn't love anyone. This is a description of a dead or paralyzed soul. This… — Simon Soloveychik
Trying to capture the physicists' precise mathematical description of the quantum world with our crude words and mental images is like playing Chopin with a… — George Johnson
Even in the lives of fishes, sensation is seldom a matter of one thing or another. Senses overlap. The lines between them often tend to… — Lyall Watson
Alan Turing gave us a mathematical model of digital computing that has completely withstood the test of time. He gave us a very, very clear… — George Dyson
The things worth writing about, and the things worth reading about, are the things that feel almost beyond description at the start and are, because… — Douglas Coupland
As with all commandments, gratitude is a description of a successful mode of living. The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings… — James E. Faust
To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling things… — Deb Caletti
Someone once told me that being in the closet is like living in a vertical casket. Perfect description. — Jane Velez-Mitchell
A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its description is a foremost resource of the art of… — John Updike

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