Quotes About Description

You would describe a tablet as small and white and expect a doctor to respond, at home, after ten at night. Why not tell be it is round? This is crucial to our case.

He no longer describes the earth as a library globe or a map that has come alive, as a cosmic eye staring into deep space. The earth is land and water, the dwelling place of mortal men, in elevated dictionary terms. He doesn't see it anymore (storm-spiralled, sea-bright, breathing heat and haze and colour) as an occasion for picturesque language, for easeful play or speculation.

Here's a writing craft tool that you can remove from your toolbox and throw away: description. It's the stuff that most readers skim. Even when deftly done using the five senses it's a lead weight. It isn't needed anymore.

comes from Hollywood. When a screenwriter writes a film, she must also write a one-sentence description of the screenplay that makes investors want to take a risk on the story. After that story is turned into a full-length feature, that same one-liner is used to get you to go see the film.

A logline is simply a movie's one-sentence description.

The very conventions of poetry were devised to encode experience, to make it less obvious and thereby more true. To make a metaphor, after all, is to describe something in terms of what it is not , the better to apprehend what it is .

Era del signo de Aries, y la descripción de los que han nacido bajo ese signo, tal como aparece en obras de astrología, le va como un guante. Conseguí, al otro lado del semáforo, que

often a thing that is ugly is ugly in itself, and often a thing that is ugly is only a thing that is forgotten, kept from view and kept from memory, and often a thing that is ugly is not only a definition of beauty itself but also renders beauty as something beyond words or beyond any kind of description.

Words cannot embody; they can only describe.

Mabel likened Lavinia's hand to a demented spider who has fallen into an inkwell.

published in 1974 as "A Protocol for Packet Network Interconnection,"16 gave the first architectural description of how the Internet would function as a network of networks, with TCP/IP as the glue holding it all together. Indeed, "the paper" is why Kahn and Cerf are so often hailed today as the inventors of the Internet, to the extent that any two people can be singled out for that honor: this was pretty much where the Internet began.

We need to do a better job of describing the reality we confront.

he was very lusty, beardless and lady-faced.

We must do away with all explanation and allow only description in its place".

There is nothing like wine for conjuring up feelings of contentment and goodwill. It is less of a drink than an experience, an evocation, a spirit. It produces sensations that defy description.

To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist.

don't just describe an emotion, arouse it, make them experience it, by manipulating the symbol of the emotion, and sometimes we have to come into awareness through the back door.

Fiel, honesta y prudente. Qué palabras tan pasivas, tan plácidas para describir lo que era ella.

his nose an aristocratic arrow.

I guess if everyone was blind, and you tried to describe vision to them, it would sound crazy and made up.

The most pious King Æthelstan' is how he was described on the first page of the gospel book

If we had to sum this new society up in a single word, we might describe it as feudal— but only if we were prepared for an outbreak of fainting fits among medieval historians.

we ought not to attach ourselves to beings, it is not beings who exist in reality and are amenable to description, but ideas.

Similarly, a little later on, the author will point out to us, among the crowd he describes, a "reactionary." That is common enough designation today. But here, I ask Mr. Flaubert again: "A reactionary? How can you recognize one at a distance? Who told you? How do you know about it?" The author evidently is amusing himself, and all these characteristics are invented on a whim.