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Quotes About Description

I do think you have sort of a general philosophical approach that you want from a justice, and I think a strict constructionist would be probably the way I'd describe it.
~ Rudy Giuliani
At length Old Tiro returned, lifting the curtain for his master. How shall I describe Marcus Tullius Cicero? The beautiful all look alike, but a plain man is plain according to his own peculiarity.
~ Steven Saylor
Gazette described his competitor
~ Susan Cheever
Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.
~ Benjamin Tucker
Stii de ce nu pot sfarsi nici o carte? Pentru ca toate eroinele seamana cu tine, si n-am curajul sa te descriu, sa fac literatura din dragostea asta...
~ Mircea Eliade
2. WHAT IS BEING SAID IN DETAIL, AND HOW?
~ Mortimer J. Adler
And the name of the party,' Abigail was saying in her description of one of the founders of the Highgate Review, is Howard Send. Too killing. I called him Passage to India, he was amazed. Of course he's that way, but they often make better friends.
~ Muriel Spark
The world doesn't yield to us directly, the description of the world stands in between.
~ Carlos Castaneda
Tôi có th? k? l?i cho em ná»™i dung câu chuy?n, nhưng làm v?y cÅ©ng ch?ng khác gì mô t? toà thánh ???ng r?ng nó là má»™t ch?ng Ä'á mà trên cùng là chóp nh?n v?y.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I could try to tell you the story, but it would be like describing a cathedral by saying it's a pile of stones ending in a spire.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Suddenly she saw a man who was snapping her picture. She stared at him and realized that he was short, had black hair, a hard face, and was wearing a gray suit. He looked to be of Italian descent. Could he possibly be Benny the Slippery One Caputti?
~ Carolyn Keene
He had thinning brown hair, broad shoulders, sharp blue eyes, and a suggestion of a gut.
~ Charlaine Harris
I would describe Fred Figglehorn to someone who hasn't heard of him as a really hyperactive, temper-throwing teenager who's stuck in the mentality of a 6-year-old.
~ Lucas Cruikshank
My music has been called heavy metal, but that's not an accurate description. I'd rather call it articulate rock because it expresses many feelings and emotions.
~ Billy Squier
Parasta päättämisessä on että päättää antaa olla. Jos on mahdotonta ymmärtää, on lopetettava ymmärtäminen ja vain kuvattava. Ja koska mitään asiaa ei voi käsittää, on vain tehtävä asioista selko.
~ Thomas Bernhard
was die Schriftsteller schreiben ist nichts gegen die Wirklichkeit die Wirklichkeit ist so schlimm dass sie nicht beschrieben werden kann noch kein Schriftsteller hat die Wirklichkeit so beschrieben wie sie wirklich ist das ist das Fürchterliche
~ Thomas Bernhard
She was in person full-limbed and somewhat heavy; without ruddiness, as without pallor; and soft to the touch as a cloud. To see her hair was to fancy that a whole winter did not contain darkness enough to form its shadow: it closed over her forehead like nightfall extinguishing the western glow.
~ Thomas Hardy
He is suddenly, dodderer and ass, taken by an ache in his skin, a simple love for them both that asks nothing but their safety, and he'll always manage to describe as something else--'concern,' you know, 'fondness...
~ Thomas Pynchon
Wow, thick head of dark curly hair. Linebacker shoulders. A nice butt.
~ Kathryn Shay
He looked like a tall, confused dandelion, with his long, thin stem and puff of white hair
~ Kathy Reichs
pounds. Hair: Black and abundant
~ Kathy Reichs
Apparently, it won't do just to tell the reader what a particular character is like. The author needs to show their habits or their words and let the reader form an image on their own.
~ Keigo Higashino
The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense.
~ Kenneth McLeish
No, indeed, 'pig' is very expressive. And an excellent description of a fellow who flirts with his brother's beloved.
~ Kenneth Oppel