Quotes About Description

Chronicles are not explanatory of what they record.

[A]utumn, that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness, that season which has drawn from every poet, worthy of being read, some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling. She occupied her mind as much as possible in such like musings and quotations...

The really hard thing for both men and women is getting older: it becomes increasingly difficult to live a life based on uncertainty, disempowerment is written into the job description.

I don't think anyone would describe me as an understated advocate. Several people have told me my argument style is very direct and very blunt, which I find mystifying. How could you ever be anything but direct and blunt?

A picture may describe a 1000 words but it will often need 1000 words to describe a picture.

This is the entertainment industry, so game designers have to have a creative mind and also have to be able to stand up against the marketing people at their company - otherwise they cannot be creative. There are not that many people who fit that description.

Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man.

Crikey," he said, "wasn't she gorgeous?" I myself had never really considered using the words "gorgeous" and "spider" in a sentence together. After getting to know the bird-eaters, I finally settled on my own description: "cool.

The description of my character in the first few movies I did was always 'nerdy,' but I liked that; it was way more interesting.

An adjective, such as 'flimsy,' describes someone's access to a thing, such as 'argument.' But that's just that someone's access. It may be accurate. But it's theirs nevertheless.

The oldest emotion in the world may be that of being moved; but to describe it-just to name it-must have been like trying to catch something invisible.

I wanted to describe the world, because to live in an undescribed world was too lonely.

But how can one regret what, to the mind, has never existed? Even loss is an inaccurate description, for what loss is without the awareness of losing?

There was a pedantic tedium to the way the internet was described—a continual onslaught of jargon that insisted something important was happening without fully elucidating what the important thing was.

Using all three forms of communication creates a natural, conversational style. Description combined with occasional instruction, and punctuated with sound effects or exclamations: It's how people talk.

Everyone should use three types of communication. Three parts description. Two parts instruction. One part onomatopoeia. Mix to taste.

and a hooked nose. His skin was the color of weak tea.

Black hair fell past his neck but just short of the shoulders. His head was protected by a stained Mexican sombrero.

Chester Miller was in his late fifties, slim-built except for his belly, which perched on his belt like an egg. A little sleepy.

On describing balding - wild emigrating hair

The color orange is both a quality of an orange and an inescapable description of it. If we find an object, however, that looks like an orange but is brown, it must either be an orange that has gone bad or it is not an orange at all. Similarly, it makes no moral sense to say that a courageous man has decided to be a coward.

Physically, he was a sickly bald-headed man resembling a pallid gland. His

rising approximately 130 feet from the water. A later explorer described the cape as "three great mountains of sand that look like islands

Although incomplete, the description of Lisboa's clandestine voyage was consistent with the strait that Magellan eventually explored.