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Quotes About Description

And still you are not the guy and still you fit the description because there is only one guy who is always the guy fitting the description.
~ Claudia Rankine
And you are not the guy and still you fit the description because there is only one guy who is always the guy fitting the description.
~ Claudia Rankine
And you are not the guy and still you fit the description because there is only one guy who is always the guy fitting the description. I
~ Claudia Rankine
And you are not the guy and and still you fit the description because there is only one guy who is always the guy fitting the description.
~ Claudia Rankine
A picture may be worth a thousand words but it needs a thousand words to describe a picture.
~ Clifford Thurlow
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
~ Clifton Fadiman
Her novels, which I have not yet read, are usually described as the work of a writer's writer, or perhaps of someone who has been to the Institute for the Theory of Literature in Zagreb.
~ Clive James
He's begun a new sword for Madoc.' 'I wouldn't mind ruining that before it's put to my throat,' says Cardan. 'Look for the big one,' I say. 'That'll be it.' The Roach gives me a frown. I can't help not having a better description; the last time I saw it, it was barely more than a bar of metal. 'Really big,' I say. Cardan snorts.
~ Holly Black
His hair dark as the sloes of a blackthorn, tumbled around his cheeks.
~ Holly Black
Mademoiselle des Touches (Camille Maupin) is George Sand in character, and the personal description of her, though applied by some to the famous Mademoiselle Georges, is easily recognized from Couture's drawing.
~ Honore de Balzac
I went yesterday to hunt the little plaid stockings, as you wished; but found that McKnight has quit business, and Allen had not a single pair of the description you give, and only one plaid pair of any sort that I thought would fit "Eddy's dear little feet." I have a notion to make another trial tomorrow morning.
~ Unknown
Well, I don't ever leave out details, in that I don't come up with information or description which I don't then use. I only ever come up with what seems to me absolutely essential to make the story work. I'm not usually an overwriter. As I revise, it's usually a matter of adding in as much vivid details as seem necessary to make the story come clear without slowing down the momentum of the story.
~ Unknown
I'm really bad at describing my books. Journalists like to have things like "It's The Terminator Meets the Seven Dwarfs." And I can't do that with my books. If I could, I probably wouldn't write them.
~ Unknown
I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb.
~ Janet Fitch
Standing beside her was a man I can only describe as a generic fed, with a gray suit and white shirt and shiny black shoes. They were both facing my sister, Sergeant Deborah, and another man I didn't know. He was blond, about six feet tall, muscular, and absurdly good-looking in a rugged, masculine way, as if God had taken Brad Pitt and decided to make him really handsome.
~ Jeff Lindsay
It is wrong," Bohr once said, "to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about nature.
~ Jeffrey M. Schwartz
Your friend's beauty, said he, I should describe as elusive. It is there, but you can easily miss it. Now, in that cap, to my mind, you do miss it.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
who weighs about twelve stone. 
~ Jerome K. Jerome
He was slightly plump, scholarly-looking but still youthful, with black thick-framed glasses and a sharp, prominent nose.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
He looks like a man.' 'How descriptive,' Susan said in a droll tone. 'Remind me never to advise you to seek work as a novelist.
~ Julia Quinn
For me, setting and description is a challenge. I always want to get that part just right, and sometimes the words won't work.
~ Kim Smith
On the one hand, a central part of this theory is the introduction of probability measures which describe what associations and deductions we are likely to make.
~ Unknown
One truly cannot be described, If the one doing the describing Has a bad attitude.
~ Unknown