Quotes About Description

she was skinny, like a salted anchovy, she gave off an odor of wildness, she had a long face, narrow at the temples, framed by two bands of smooth black hair. But

History does not need explanatory principles, but only words to tell how things were.

The percentage of sales or service target in job description is nothing but the indicator of an atrocity on that person in an organization.

Metadata, in its most informal but most prevalent definition, is "data about data.

This means that the attributes used to describe an information resource are metadata about that resource.

Bibliographic control (more often referred to as information organization today) is the process of describing information resources and providing name, title, and subject access to the descriptions, resulting in records or individual metadata statements that serve as surrogates for the actual items of recorded information.

According to Marcia Lei Zeng and Jian Qin, an ontology describes (a)the types of things that exist (classes), (b)the relationships between them (properties), and (c)the logical ways those classes and properties can be used together (axioms).46

With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.

You gotta know the details to paint a really good picture in the reader's mind on what's happening.

Percy's callous description of humanity as "seven billion morons" was uncomfortably close to the truth.

The tests which showed that this was the only rifle which had the markings which were shown on the bullets; the fact that a man was seen by several witnesses, not identified, but seen in the window with the general description of what he looked like.

I woke up in London one morning in the middle of an adrenaline surge, and I was just lying there - the sun was coming up - trying to think of the best way to describe this feeling, and 'pang' was the only word I could really use to describe it.

I think it's clear to most people that the description of pro-life Democrat is accurate. I've been very consistent. What it means is I try to support policies that help women and children both before and after birth.

Every description of natural processes must be based on ideas which have been introduced and defined by the classical theory.

I always found it satisfying that gravity was described by Einstein's geometric theory of general relativity.

Rossi was the first to describe another system working with valves in parallel; it has the advantage that it can easily be extended to coincidences between more than two events, and is therefore predominantly used today.

Often you find the character through the things they say. How they talk about other people, how they describe themselves - which is very rare.

It's no longer possible to simply build English country houses out of words, because they've already been so thoroughly described that all the applicable words have been used up, and one is forced to build them instead out of words recycled and scavenged from other descriptions of other country houses.

Reporters for the B.B.C. have such an extraordinary effect on the people they meet - wherever they go the natives sing. It seems so strange, they never do it when I am travelling, The B.B.C. oughtn't to let them, it spoils the programme. Just when you are hoping for a description of some nice place, everybody suddenly bursts out singing. Even Displaced Persons do it. And singing sounds much the same everywhere, so I switch it off.

a thin woman about fifty with a face like a silver hatchet.

The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points.

description is deadly to a prose poem.

I swear I'm licked before I start, trying to tell you all what Mr. Onselm looked like. Words give out — for instance, you're frozen to death for fit words to tell the favor of the girl you love. And Mr. Onselm and I pure poison hated each other. That's how love and hate are alike.