Quotes About Description

Nous écrirons : « Nous mangeons beaucoup de noix », et non pas : « Nous aimons les noix », car le mot « aimer » n'est pas sûr, il manque de précision et d'objectivité. […] Les mots qui définissent les sentiments sont très vagues; il vaut mieux éviter leur emploi et s'en tenir à la description des objets, des êtres humains et de soi-même, c'est-à-dire à la description fidèles des faits.

Updike "describes to no purpose.

How could anyone find words to describe Justinian's character?

I now know that if you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.

If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist, and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.

Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry.

I remember exactly what you were wearing, [...] Dark suit, red tie, gold watch, and a blond woman.

The writer's goal is to try to make it frightening without describing it too much, and yet not making it so grey that you don't know what's going on... Your imagination can imagine all sorts of really horrible things, and if you're able to prolong that feeling, then you've succeeded.

My strong suits, coming from poetry, will naturally be description, which I love doing. It comes very easily, and possibly structure, up to a point.

I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.

Was it me you were discussing?" he countered with lifted brows. "I couldn't tell from the description you were giving. Since when am I kind, considerate, refined, and amiable?" "You're angry," Victoria concluded on a sigh. A low chuckle rumbled in his chest and his arms tightened, drawing her close to his leann, muscular body. "I'm not angry," he said in a husky, gentle voice. "I'm embarrassed

Thus the theory of description matters most.It is the theory of the word for thoseFor whom the word is the making of the world,The buzzing world and lisping firmament.It is a world of words to the end of it,In which nothing solid is its solid self.

It matters, because everything we say Of the past is description without place, a cast Of the imagination, made in sound; And because what we say of the future must portend, Be alive with its own seemings, seeming to be Like rubies reddened by rubies reddening.

Great. An asthmatic goon.

Mein Freund der Dichter beschrieb nun die einfachsten Dinge, die er finden konnte",fuhr er fort, "und stellte fest, daß es das Schwierigste überhaupt war. Es war leicht, einen Palast aus Schnee und Eis zu beschreiben, aber unsäglich schwer, dasselbe mit einem einzelnen Haar zu tun. Oder einem Löffel. Einem Nagel. Einem Zahn. Einem Salzkorn. Einem Holzsplitter. Einer Kerzenflamme. Einem Wassertropfen.

No other frontier has ever inspired so many of its people to write. The scenes of California, and the experiences of getting there an dliving there, were so often extraordinary and dramatic that they cried out for description.

People don't choose between things, they choose between descriptions of things.

The study noted that most students preferred the description they gave three years after the event rather than the initial account they gave immediately after the event. His point in citing the study was to say that memory becomes distorted over time.

John] Harrison [could not] express himself clearly in writing.... No matter how brilliantly ideas formed in his mind, or crystallized in his clockworks, his verbal descriptions failed to shine with the same light.... The first sentence [of his last published work] runs on, virtually unpunctuated, for twenty-five pages." Dava Sobel, Longitude, p66

His nose was the size of a small fist and resembled a deformed potato.

Great books, if long enough and full of topical description and contemporary comment, were now coming into even wider public favor. The lengthier and fuller of comment, the better.

MacDuff I knew at Cambridge." "Oh, you did, did you? Describe him." "Tall. Tall and absurdly thin. And good-natured. A bit like a preying mantis that doesn't prey—a non-preying mantis if you like. A sort of pleasant genial mantis that's given up preying and taken up tennis instead.

It was a little like a pikka bird, only rather smaller. That is to say, in fact it was larger, or to be more exact, precisely the same size or, at least, not less than twice the size. It was also both a lot bluer and a lot pinker than pikka birds, while at the same time being perfectly black.

specimens, wait until they've been examined, then put them back." "Bone librarian—a most apt description. How many visiting scientists