Quotes About Description

Margaret had a face like the ass end of a gasoline truck and a body to match.

A good set of data can go a long way toward describing human behavior as long as the proper questions are asked of it. Our job in this book is to come up with such questions.

The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action.

Los seres humanos son curiosos sobre la estructura y la función de todo, y no iba a ser menos en el caso de ellos mismos; nuestra capacidad para contar historias refleja nuestra capacidad para describirnos a nosotros mismos.

Memory is not a description of the objective past. Memory is a tool. Memory is the past's guide to the future. If you remember that something bad happened, and you can figure out why, then you can try to avoid that bad thing happening again.

Describir nunca es bastante.

Sleekpaw was a yellow she-cat, and

He was watching Violet. Her fur had the rich darkness of storm clouds. Her long tail was thick and sleek. Her ears were wide and soft, framing her pretty face perfectly

A game concept is a description of a game detailed enough to begin discussing it as a potential commercial product—a piece of software that the public might want to buy.

Etgar means "challenge." And my family name is Keret, which means "urban." So my name is "urban challenge." My joke is, it's a good description of a birth but a strange name for a human being.

It is important to point out that the mathematical formulation of the physicist's often crude experience leads in an uncanny number of cases to an amazingly accurate description of a large class of phenomena.

I'd be perfectly happy with a mathematically precise description of how time began. I see science and religion as being two completely different things. I don't see science as relevant to the question of whether or not there's a God.

The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.

I don't like to put labels on anyone. I'm a reporter. I'd rather observe and describe and question.

We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe.

I feel character description from a book can mislead you and actually make you fall off course when you're representing a character using a script.

As I've said repeatedly, Republicans are very good at describing things in black and white; Democrats are very good at describing the 11 shades of gray.

I don't put a lot of description in the books because I write books the way I like to read them, and that is I like to build images and be a creative reader, and so I write that way.

I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene.

Well if I was going to describe my audience, it's going to take longer than you'd ever expect, hundreds of years in fact, because there's many of them, all over the world.

If you look at the language of illness, you can use it to describe race - you could experience race as an illness. You can experience income level, at many different levels, as a form of illness. You can experience age as an illness. I mean, it's all got an illness component.

all descriptions of God are necessarily wrong, because an infinite, timeless consciousness can have no characteristics that can be properly translated into physical terms. Love, light, and bliss come the closest.

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

So astonishing was his physique that another man unabashedly described young Abraham Lincoln as "a cross between Venus and Hercules.