Quotes About Description

His eyes were like the shoelaces of a harpsichord.

The behaviour of physical, nonbiological objects is so simple that it is feasible to use existing mathematical language to describe it, which is why physics books are full of mathematics.

I was too far away to observe what color Enid Starkie's eyes were; all I remember of her is that she dressed like a matelot, walked like a scrum-half, and had an atrocious French accent.

And remember, whenever you see a character in a novel, let alone a biography or history book, reduced and neatened into three adjectives, always distrust that description.

My joy at the sensation of my mind opening up and expanding was beyond description.

If she did have to describe the kind of person who hunted vampires though, she was certain of one thing. It wouldn't be the kind of person who wore pink fluffy slippers at night and fell asleep in front of the television

The richness of every European language is a richness in ability to describe its own culture, represent its own world. When it ventures to do the same for another culture, however, it betrays its limitations, underdevelopment, semantic weakness.

Talking of the local Sheriff, Jake Valentine, tall and skinny and his wife Myra, She was a short woman, maybe five feet tall in her socks, the top of her head not quite reaching Jake's chest. What she lacked in height she made up for in girth. Jeffrey guessed she was at least a hundred pounds overweight. Standing side by side, the Valentines looked like the living embodiment of the number ten.

of age. No distinguishing tattoos or birthmarks." He looked up, making sure he was being followed. "Five-ten

A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.

No man has ever been able to describe God fully. The same holds true of ahimsa.

For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.

The First Man is completely autobiographical. The mother [Albert Camus] describes is the woman I knew, and she was exactly as he describes her. And this teacher really existed.

I couldn't describe how little interest I have in men. Or I could - but I don't think that it would be appropriate.

Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways.

Man can only describe God in his own poor language.

Mr. Dallstrom is a bald, scarecrow of a man with a poochy stomache. Think of a pregnant Abraham Lincoln.

I don't like the word 'businesswoman.' Perhaps 'committed mother' would be the best description.

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.

You cannot describe the universe completely with any accuracy unless you're willing to admit that it's both physical and mental in nature.

Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.

Quantum field theory arose out of our need to describe the ephemeral nature of life.

The scientistic faith in a science that will one day not only fulfill, but eliminate, personal self-conception through objectifying self-description is not science, but bad philosophy.

Beautiful moments in life need no words for description. Living those moments and feeling the beauty suffices.