Description Quote by Claire Messud

For a sorcerer, reality, or the world as we all know it, is only a description.

— Carlos Castaneda

Nobody would know me from my own description of myself; which is why, when called upon (rarely, I grant) to provide an account, I…

— Claire Messud

“And it explains much about me, too, about the limits of my experience, about the fact that the person I am in my head…

— Claire Messud

Confidence the ability to believe in one's self...sounds about right perfect description of myself

— Anonymous

“Do you know what I would answer to someone who asked me for a description of myself, in a hurry? This: ?? !! For…

— Anaïs Nin

I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all.

— Duane Michals

My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they…

— John Cleveland

The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title

— Gene Tierney

The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is.

— Janet Malcolm

Part of my plan was not only to introduce all useful animals that I possibly could into this part of Australia, but also the…

— George Grey

Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations.

— Alan Keyes

First of all, principles should be general. That is, it must be possible to formulate them without use of what would be intuitively recognized…

— John Rawls