Descriptive Quotes

51 quotes by 49 authors

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
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
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
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
Words have a universe of qualities other than those of descriptive relation: Hardness, Density, Sound-Shape, Vector-Force, & Degrees of Transparency/Opacity. — Clark Coolidge
I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word — Camryn Manheim
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
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
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
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
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. — C.S. Lewis
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The thing about Depeche songs is that theyâ€™re so descriptive. For me, they tell some kind of story about a character whoâ€™s trying to redeem… — Dave Gahan

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