Quotes About Description

No one answered to the description of cook aboard these ships because the job was considered too demeaning.

Although this was his first visit to Brazil, Magellan was familiar with the brilliantly evocative descriptions

Will I stop describing, as only a true Southerner can, a truly awful physical appearance as simply "most unfortunate" as in, "She has a most unfortunate nose"?

Alyec is steely-eyed, chisel-faced young Russian. -Paul

Miss Sarah Pocket, whom I now saw to be a little dry brown corrugated old woman, with a small face that might have been made of walnut shells...

those questions at sufficient length. If a dread of not being understood be hidden in the breasts of other young people to anything like the extent to which it used to be hidden in mine,—which I consider probable, as I have no particular reason to suspect myself of having been a monstrosity,—it is the key to many reservations. I felt convinced that if I described Miss Havisham's as my eyes had seen it, I should not be understood.

with a sharp nose like a sharp autumn evening, inclining to be frosty towards the end.

If only i could get that under control then i feel like i could stay here a long time, watching the days leaking into the nights, swilling over the buildings, bleeding back again. I could lie and not think of anything but ways to describe the sky, the clouds, the light.

She had shins like fireplugs and hips as wide as an oven door. Her head was stuck directly onto her shoulders with the usual Prussian predilection for omitting the neck, and to watch her turn her head in the direction of Aunt Marvel's yodeling demands for attention was to watch a large and noble owl.

Galen didn't know anything about Tarkin, other than that he had served in the Republic Navy before being appointed adjutant general. A tall man some ten or fifteen years older than Galen, he had sunken cheeks, a high brow, and a look of penetrating intelligence.

When I say you're a loser, Beck, I'm not insulting you. I'm describing you." "Whoa," said Tommy, looking up from his phone. "Dial it down a notch." "Yeah, Kaiyo," added Kirk. Kaiyo gave both big brothers a very snarky look. "Remember when I asked you two for your opinion?" she said. "Yeah. Me neither.

I describe Jeb Bush as a 'low-energy' individual, and unfortunately for him, that stuck. And it's true: he's a low-energy person. That doesn't make him a bad person.

'Blade Runner' is such a unique film. How do you describe a diamond? I don't think you should ever touch it again.

I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique - you didn't see that as a job description anywhere.

The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena.

The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe.

Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe.

Unless you have experienced it, it's difficult to describe the virulence of the Twitter storms that were unleashed on Trump skeptics.

In meditation you can erase the conditioning. But still, you have to fight the description of the world that everyone else is carrying around.

How can an adjective in front of a noun not describe the noun? There are dwarf stars, but they're still considered stars.

To deny the reality or logical significance of what we can never describe or understand is the crudest form of cognitive dissonance.

To deny the reality or logical significance of what we can never describe or understand is the crudest form form of cognitive dissonance.

and it will always happen, that the nicest construction that words are capable of, when applied to the description of some thing which either cannot exist, or is too incomprehensible to be within the compass of discription, will be words of sound ony, and though they may amuse the ear, they cannot inform the mind

Scripts that make characters a two-sentence description, I'm not interested in.