Descriptive Quotes
51 quotes by 49 authors
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The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in…
— Louise Brooks
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The morphological characteristics of plant and animal species form the chief subject of the descriptive natural sciences and are the criteria for their classification. But…
— Karl Landsteiner
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Descriptive anatomy is to physiology what geography is to history, and just as it is not enough to know the typography of a country to…
— Claude Bernard
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For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces, an event rather than an appearance. These forces can only be tackled by…
— Bridget Riley
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Words have a universe of qualities other than those of descriptive relation: Hardness, Density, Sound-Shape, Vector-Force, & Degrees of Transparency/Opacity.
— Clark Coolidge
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word
— Camryn Manheim
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We need to develop a better descriptive vocabulary for lying, a taxonomy, a way to distinguish intentional lies from unintentional ones, and a way to…
— Rivka Galchen
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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages. Adding explanation to the descriptive…
— Akira Kurosawa
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Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all…
— Eric Gill
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The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated sharply from psychology at large…
— Edmund Husserl
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Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.
— C.S. Lewis
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The majority of the people of the world today are unsane, not insane, unsane meaning having been exposed to methods of evaluation that have long…
— Jacque Fresco
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The many varieties and wonderful colors of the modern dahlia make it a totally different flower from the one our grandmothers knew. The names are…
— Helena Rutherfurd Ely
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Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments…
— Marilyn Hacker
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Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the…
— Gavin Bryars
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The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance…
— Wilhelm Wundt
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Moon Phase Astrology is a valuable resource on a neglected topic. Through the use of descriptive and poetic titles, insightful text, and inspiring historic quotes,…
— Christopher Penczak
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Economics, as it is often taught today, portrays us as homo economicus-someone who doesn't vote in presidential elections, doesn't return lost wallets, and doesn't leave…
— Robert H. Frank
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A detective novel should contain no long descriptive passages, no literary dallying with side-issues, no subtly worked-out character analyses, no 'atmospheric' preoccupations. Such matters have…
— S. S. Van Dine
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The thing about Depeche songs is that they’re so descriptive. For me, they tell some kind of story about a character who’s trying to redeem…
— Dave Gahan
Who Wrote These Descriptive Quotes
49 authors contributed a total of 51 Descriptive Quotes, led by these top contributors: