Description Quotes

518 quotes by 433 authors

The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera. — John Marshall
The greater the burden a man takes upon his shoulders, the stronger he must be to carry it. No words are unmentionable, no action or… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson
My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they swallow… — John Cleveland
The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we… — John Templeton
The tests which showed that this was the only rifle which had the markings which were shown on the bullets; the fact that a man… — John Sherman Cooper
If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives, and if he is going to… — Henry Cabot Lodge
Our situation here, without any exaggeration, is beyond description almost; it is such as eye has not seen nor ear heard, nor hath it ever… — Peter Oliver
Part of my plan was not only to introduce all useful animals that I possibly could into this part of Australia, but also the most… — George Grey
It was an unbelievable experience! The brakes, the g-forces and the power of the engine are beyond description. Thanks to BMW and WilliamsF1 for giving… — Sebastian Vettel
Storms are sex. They exist alongside and are indifferent to words and description and dissection. — Kevin Patterson
As a militant troublemaker, I once wrote that it was the duty of every woman worthy of the description to upset men at least three… — Julie Burchill
The advantage of writing from experience is that it often provides you with details that you would never think of yourself, no matter how rich… — Christopher Paolini
My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in the… — Marilynne Robinson
My father died when I was 9 years old. The miserable condition of my family at that time is beyond description. My family, solitary and… — Chiang Kai-shek
I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer, just as liberalism is a misnomer for… — Ronald Reagan
If experience has established any one thing in this world, it has established this: that it is well for any great class and description of… — Matthew Arnold
Don't overwrite description in a story - you haven't got time — Unknown Author
LEVIATHAN, n. An enormous aquatic animal mentioned by Job. Some suppose it to have been the whale, but that distinguished ichthyologer, Dr. Jordan, of Stanford… — Ambrose Bierce
Even if I use sweet phrases in this description, I cannot even be sure that what I write here is true, precisely because I do… — Sorin Cerin
Whenever I fill out the job description I put 'songwriter,' never 'singer' or 'artist.' Singers come and go. — Brian McKnight

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