Descriptive Quotes

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Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being… — C.S. Lewis
A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical. — Paul Dirac
It was that quality that led me into aviation in the first place â€” it was a love of the air and sky and flying,… — Charles Lindbergh
So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it. — Camryn Manheim
Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive; it can tell… — Jonathan Sacks
I'm not the most detailed writer. I have a tendency to be more action-oriented vs. descriptive. — Lisa Gardner
Metrical geometry is thus a part of descriptive geometry, and descriptive geometry is all geometry. — Arthur Cayley
A living organism must be studied from two distinct aspects. One of these is the causal-analytic aspect which is so fruitfully applicable to ontogeny. The… — Gavin de Beer
Science, as long as it limits itself to the descriptive study of the laws of nature, has no moral or ethical quality and this applies… — Ernst Boris Chain
The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh-Morpork some legislation… — Terry Pratchett
What parents said they valued most were discussions with teachers and heads, and what they wanted was more descriptive information in their children's school reports.… — Carol J. Adams
Reconnaissance memoranda should always be written in the simplest style and be purely descriptive. They should never stray from their objective by introducing extraneous ideas. — Napoleon Bonaparte
It is through color changes that we go forward... all decisions come about as the picture is made and in response to painterly demands. The… — Wolf Kahn
In 1879 the Bengali scholar S.M. Tagore compiled a more extensive list of ruby colors from the Purana sacred texts: â€˜like the China rose, like… — Victoria Finlay
The violence in the Old Testament and New Testament is descriptive. The violence in the Koran is for all time and it is prescriptive. And… — Pamela Geller
If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary. — Robert Delaunay
The only sort of descriptive adjective or catch phrase for my music would be 'eclectic.' — Moby
At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you… — Peter Singer
Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Grapes are juicy. Strawberries. Oranges. Good pork chops are succulent," said Dusty. "But the word isn't accurately descriptive of a person." Smiling with delight, Ahriman… — Dean Koontz

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