Description Quotes

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It's been said that alcoholics are egomaniacs with low self -esteem. It's the prefect description. Being larger than life and yet your pride is crushed… — Gary Oldman
Ronnie had it right calling it Torture. That is a much more accurate description the way I see it. — Ronald Coase
The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are caught up in… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
When you get past making labels for things, it is possible to combine and transform elements into new things. Look at things until their import,… — Corita Kent
Emo is pathetic. It's a tired attempt at making bad music cool, all while rocking dumb haircuts and unisexual belts. Furthermore, adding the suffix '-core'… — Corey Taylor
In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. For… — Anton Chekhov
Mathematics is one of the deepest and most powerful expressions of pure human reason, and, at the same time, the most fundamental resource for description… — Hyman Bass
A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space. — Garry Winogrand
Habits of thought lead us to brush aside descriptions of cruelty to animals as emotional, for "animal-lovers only"; or if not that, then anyway the… — Peter Singer
...course titles and even course descriptions often fail to reveal what is actually taught (much less learned)... — F. M. Scherer
The rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has ever known; it… — Fulton J. Sheen
America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain. It's 'winner take nothing' that is the great truth of… — Ralph Ellison
I confess I am at a loss to discover what temptation the persons entrusted with the administration of the general government could ever feel to… — Alexander Hamilton
The apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet there is, perhaps,… — James Madison
By a generative grammar I mean simply a system of rules that in some explicit and well-defined way assigns structural descriptions to sentences. Obviously, every… — Noam Chomsky
Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the… — Edsger Dijkstra
Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description. — Barry Goldwater
The true liberty of the press is amply secured by permitting every man to publish his opinion; but it is due to the peace and… — Thomas McKean
This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it much… — Lord Byron
Needless to say, there was no one around remotely fitting the description of a normal person: I was at a writing conference. — Anne Lamott

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