Descriptions Quotes

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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
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
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
Resist Impulses to Label Yourself with Descriptions that Limit You in Any Way. — Wayne Dyer
Look, words are like the air: they belong to everybody. Words are not the problem; it's the tone, the context, where those words are aimed,… — Unknown Author
By creating useful job descriptions and making clear what qualifications should be expected, the Department aims to help improve schools' ability to recruit the right… — Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
One of the more pretentious political self-descriptions is 'Libertarian.' People think it puts them above the fray. It sounds fashionable, and to the uninitiated, faintly… — George Carlin
But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite clear they were… — Robert Jay Lifton
What appear to us to be causal explanations are in fact just storiesâ€”descriptions of what happened that tell us little, if anything, about the mechanisms… — Unknown Author
I mean not to accuse any one, but to take the shame upon myself, in common, indeed, with the whole parliament of Great Britain, for… — William Wilberforce
Avoid restaurants with names that are improbable descriptions, such as the Purple Goose, the Blue Kangaroo or the Quilted Orangutan. — Calvin Trillin
I still lack a political, religious and philosophical world view - I change it every month - and so I'll have to limit myself to… — Anton Chekhov
The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions… — Alan Watts
It is impossible to describe a landscape so validly as to exclude all other descriptions, for no one can see the landscape in all its… — Frithjof Schuon
Darwin, Marx, and Freud meet. They may have understood other things, but the human soul, and in particular the soul of Culture-man, they did not… — Francis Parker Yockey
We can think of descriptions almost as computer languages, an operative description that only deals with very simple operations. Its code is sex - Male,… — Frederick Lenz
Descriptions of my work depress me. They make me feel pinned down. — Thom Mayne

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