Description Quotes

518 quotes by 442 authors

It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile, by secretly evoking… — C.S. Lewis
Developing fewer features allows you to conserve development resources and spend more time refining those features that users really need. Fewer features mean fewer things… — Jakob Nielsen
Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own. — Andrew Mason
"I know perfectly well that at this moment the whole universe is listening to us," Jean Giraudoux wrote in The Madwoman of Chaillot, "and that… — Frank Drake
The description is not the described. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I don't like the word 'businesswoman.' Perhaps 'committed mother' would be the best description. — Steffi Graf
All elongated objects, such as sticks, tree-trunks and umbrellas(the opening of these last being comparable to an erection) may stand for the male organ...Boxes, cases,… — Sigmund Freud
There are multiple descriptions of the same real world situation. The only justification for language is to empower yourself. If the verbal description you create… — Moshe Feldenkrais
Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is a creature of… — William Henry Hudson
At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Baalbec… — Horace Walpole
I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I'll write descriptions of what scenes should… — Harvey Pekar
The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not. — Richard Rorty
All descriptions of reality are limited expressions of the world of emptiness.Â Yet we attach to the descriptions and think they are reality.Â That is… — Shunryu Suzuki
I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of pornography), and perhaps I… — Potter Stewart
No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery. — Harriet Ann Jacobs
Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description. — Robert Genn
Resist Impulses to Label Yourself with Descriptions that Limit You in Any Way. — Wayne Dyer
I wish I could tell you about the South Pacific. The way it actually was. The endless ocean. The infinite specks of coral we called… — James A. Michener
I heard the opening bar of 'Help' as I headed down Polk Street. Every single time I've heard that tune I've taken it as some… — Oscar Zeta Acosta
Despite the unrivaled empirical success of quantum theory, the very suggestion that it may be literally true as a description of nature is still greeted… — David Deutsch

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