Quotes About Description

And you who wish to represent by words the form of man and all the aspects of his membrification, relinquish that idea. For the more minutely you describe the more you will confine the mind of the reader, and the more you will keep him from the knowledge of the thing described. And so it is necessary to draw and to describe.

People tend to be exquisitely precise when describing pain. We don't just say it hurts, we say it throbs or aches; it's a burning, wrenching, gnawing sensation; it's sharp or dull; it chafes; it stings. But where pain specifies, joy generalizes. It was great! we say. Terrific! Beautiful! Fantastic!

When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.

Her hair was the blackest I ever saw. Her eyes matched her hair. Her nose was not quite large enough, I admit. Her mouth and chin were (to quote Mr. Franklin) morsels for the gods; and her complexion (on the same undeniable authority) was as warm as the sun itself, with this great advantage over the sun, that it was always in nice order to look at.

Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description.

Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.

Descrivere ogni cosa in modo scientifico sarebbe possibile, ma assurdo. Non avrebbe senso, sarebbe come descrivere una sinfonia di Beethoven in base alla variazione della pressione d'onda

We thus obtain the following result: every description of events in space involves the use of a rigid body to which such events have to be referred. The resulting relationship takes for granted that the laws of Euclidean geometry hold for 'distances', the 'distance' being represented physically by means of the convention of two marks on a rigid body.

The purpose of mechanics is to describe how bodies change their position in space with 'time'.

A TV show is its characters. When you describe a TV show, you're describing the characters and the situation they're in.

Teachers deserve a well-defined, realistic job description and enough protected school day planning time to fulfill that job within their paid contracted hours.

There are some catastrophes that a poor writer's pen cannot describe and which he is obliged to leave to the imagination of his readers with a bald statement of the facts.

The further Fascism receded into history and the fewer visible fascists there were on display, the more self-proclaimed anti-fascists needed fascism to retain any semblance of political virtue or purpose. It proved politically useful to describe as fascist people who were not Fascists , just as it proved politically useful to describe as racist people who were not racists.

Atractor Extraño: En la física se refiere al algoritmo que describe un sistema complejo y hacia el cual el sistema prospera.

Hildegard of Bingen (1098 - 1189) with her prophetic gift and depth of vision, was the first to describe the healing powers of food. Hildegard's nutritional approach is simple and healthy

What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is itself an adjective meaning 'placed on top', 'added', 'appended', 'foreign'. Adjectives seem fairly innocent additions, but look again. These small imported mechanisms are in charge of attaching everything in the world to its place in particularity. They are the latches of being.

Someone said that my coaching is a combination of Milan's defensive discipline and the Dutch propensity for attacking football, and I think that is a fair description.

I like really, properly detailed, described characters.

Prose is all about embellishing and describing.

She was in the middle thirties, and faintly stout, but she carried her surplus flesh sensuously as some women can.

Science describes things as they are; art as they are felt, as they are felt to be.

These people are more bearable when they describe, since in describing they forget themselves.

I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.

I know it is all right. I wish I could make you feel so, I wish I could describe my feelings.