Quotes About Description

I was always just so feminine. I don't think anyone who ever met me would describe me as a man.

Temptation is impossible for me to resist... Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description.

Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue.

I always thought 'chick lit' meant third-person contemporary funny novels, dealing with issues of the day. I mean, it's not the ideal term; when I'm asked to describe what I do, I say I write romantic comedies, cause that's what I feel they are. But I'm quite pragmatic.

Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term to describe portfolios that have been assembled for purposes other than serving the clients' best interests.

My gift, if that's not too grandiose a term, is one for describing novels, biographies, and works of history in such a way that people want to read them.

What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.

The best description of the Old Testament that I heard was that it starts out as mythology, then it becomes legend, then it becomes history. In the mythological period - there is a distinct mythological period in the Old Testament, where the time spans are impossible and really just imagined.

What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself embodies inductive assumptions, even as a statement about the past.

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.

First thing I notice is that said arse is a peach.

rectangular slab of mincemeat that everyone, including the servers, referred to as baked turd.

Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.

She was an extremely attractive woman if you liked the type, which could best be described as homicidal schizophrenic paranoiac with kittenish overtones.

how could you describe a hill and snow to someone who had never felt height or wind or that feathery, magical cold?

It was so - oh, I wish language were more precise! The red was so beautiful!

For the record, I never described Lucy as overweight. I simply reported what she said. I have been very careful not to refer to any woman as old and fat.

Love scenes, if genuine, are indescribable; for to those who have enacted them, the most elaborate description seems tame, and to those who have not, the simplest picture seems overdone. So romancers had better let imagination paint for them that which is above all art, and leave their lovers to themselves during the happiest minutes of their lives.

a face so broad and ruddy that he was dubbed "Bacon Face.

My life has gotten a little more complicated than my ability to describe it. That used to be the definition of madness, now it's just continuous overload.

Appearing thus late in the story, Cecil must be at once described. He was medieval. Like a Gothic statue.

All we're trying to do is word the world. Detail is one way we do that. We enumerate, notate, name the things seen.

Empathy One is to listen for and be curious about the actual situation or problem that the client is describing. Empathy Two is to listen for and be curious about what is really bothering the speaker as she is explaining the problem or the situation.

I suppose I ought to describe my father, but it isn't easy. Sometimes over the years he seemed one thing and sometimes another. He was a good-looking man, strong and ruddy. When I was little he seemed tall to me, but by the time I was thirteen he had become medium.