Code Quote by Frederick Lenz

This word "description" may be disconcerting when used to refer to what is generally called a translation. But when one wishes to render a…

— Gaston Bachelard

We've been socialised and told that there is a way to describe people, and that way is by their gender or their sex.

— Asia Kate Dillon

We agree that language functions in a certain way so that we can understand each other; but within that are built all sorts of…

— John Yau

“Description begins with visualization of what it is you want the reader to experience. It ends with you translating what you see in your…

— Stephen King

I thought having to explain the risibility of gender codes would be mostly behind us by now.

— Zoe Buckman

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually…

— Paul de Man

Language is not just a code; you are writing into its history, into its tides.

— Hisham Matar

Sex? It's a primitive language the whole world speaks, some fluently.

— Shill

The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.

— Garth Stein

The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.

— Anish Kapoor

Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It's a language…

— Ben Gibbard

Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.

— Robert Genn