Descriptions Quotes

106 Descriptions quotes by 95 unique authors

Studying the universe engages us in something bigger than ourselves. Science tries to describe, in terms we can only grasp intuitively, things that are beyond… — Guy Consolmagno
One who is caught in thought loses one's original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual thing, he fails… — Dalai Lama
If you are deaf, you need captions for spoken elements. If you are blind, you need voiced descriptions of Web contents and spoken renderings of… — Vinton Cerf
The world of enlightenment, and that which creates enlightenment, is much different than what most people would think. Most people have Hallmark Card descriptions of… — Frederick Lenz
Build a shield between yourself and the descriptions of the world that everyone else has. — Frederick Lenz
A preacher must have some intelligence to charm the people by his florid style, by his exhilarating system of morality, by the repetition of his… — Jean de la Bruyere
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. — William Hazlitt
Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations. — Daniel Kahneman
Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It's cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype says. This is… — Camilla Lackberg
I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions… — John Locke
If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'. — Winona Ryder
All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the Russians. But in… — Leo Tolstoy
Still in my coat and hat, I sank onto the stair to read the letter. (I never read without making sure I am in a… — Diane Setterfield
The old, slow, creaking descriptions are a thing of the past; today the rule is brevity - but every word must be supercharged, high-voltage. — Yevgeny Zamyatin
Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films. — Terry Pratchett
I hate those endless descriptions of a heroine's physical attributes . . . it really bothers me how in books it seems like the only… — E. Lockhart
Siobhan said that when you are writing a book you have to include some descriptions of things. I said that I could take photographs and… — Mark Haddon
[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons… — Anton Chekhov
The Master made it his task to destroy systematically every doctrine, every belief, every concept of the divine, for these things, which were originally intended… — Anthony de Mello
The Four Noble Truths are pragmatic rather than dogmatic. They suggest a course of action to be followed rather than a set of dogmas to… — Stephen Batchelor

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