Description Quotes

518 quotes by 442 authors

The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as… — Ann Radcliffe
All human beings bear God's image and must be respected for what each person is. Therefore, no external description of one's being, whether based on… — John Shelby Spong
The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. — Louis E. Boone
There is nothing like wine for conjuring up feelings of contentment and goodwill. It is less of a drink than an experience, an evocation, a… — Thomas Conklin
I have this tattooed on my left side! I love the saying and it's a perfect description of Karma, don't judge/discriminate and don't do to… — Plato
When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love, we become singers… — Martin Prechtel
In those same decades, most UFO sightings were made in the daytime and frequently at close range, when shapes and surface features could be distinguished,… — Don Berliner
Whether you are Minor White or Robert Frank, almost every photograph starts with an act of pure description - a window. But every now and… — Alec Soth
All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses. — Gautama Buddha
Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied… — Albert Camus
War is awful. Nothing, not the valor with which it is fought nor the nobility of the cause it serves, can glorify war. War is… — John McCain
Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality. — Albert Einstein
Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The last person I ever want working for me is someone who says 'that's not in my job description. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes,… — Sergei Eisenstein
I do not know what might be the most fitting description.... I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a… — Pope Francis
Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually speak. — Rose Tremain
Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far with description. I… — Brad Thor
The person who is working on his or her family history fits the description of one who is fulfilling his or her duty. I know… — Thomas S. Monson
Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly real.… — Walter Lippmann

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