Quotes About Description

the beautiful Joann with the flaming red hair.

Missing entirely from Henry's description had been any hint of the devout strength that flowed into Glass at the sight of the massive peaks.

He wasn't a tough guy. He was "a big warm-hearted monkey," said Bannon, with rather faint praise.

If it can be described, it can be understood. If it can be understood, it need not be feared.

As I drew up the profile I realised that it had so much in common with the profile of Selepe, the Cleveland killer, that it could have described the same man. But a profile describes a personality and not a person and two people could have similar personalities.

was described to me as "emerald green," but that is underselling: it was far richer than that, more vivid, a color so intense I could almost taste it. I could certainly feel it. You know a color has moved you when to see it is only the beginning of the experience.

Do you scent the same things I do?" Ransom made a face when she described what she'd picked up from the passing vamp. "Yeah, except I don't say shit like 'cinnamon spice with a hint of burnt oak.' I say 'dude smells like an electrified tree with a side of doughnut topping.

building a tower of description that was in constant danger of toppling over as more and more clauses were thrown on to it, adjectives and adverbs, bounteous, haltingly, found in pockets and pitched on, similes not spared, prepositions dangling and otherwise, metaphors

De Lacey: It is night in the Garden of Eden. Do you see the moon? Creature: There. There it is. De Lacey: Describe it to me. Creature: Solitary.

When she climbed out of the car, I saw the difference, the sleekness, her buttocks as ripe as mangoes, her arms and legs plump and muscled.

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

In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.

There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract physical description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about nature...

This book is devoted to the impact of the Gibbsian point of view on modern life, both through the substantive changes it has made in working science, and through the changes it has made indirectly in our attitude to life in general. Thus the following chapters contain an element of technical description as well as a philosophic component which concerns what we do and how we should react to the new world that confronts us.

will begin with the analogy of the rose. In the smell of the rose, there is hardly a fragrance that can compare with its beauty. But how would you describe this fragrance? The way we would describe it is that it is closer to the word and feeling of love than any other flower on the Earth

The truth is terrible: describing is destroying.

By nature, it's impossible to describe enlightenment! How do you plan on sharing your enlightenment? Hahaha, that's impossible. Wake up! That'll be the end of the world if you ever succeed!

Our knowledge of dynamic processes is necessarily inferior to our ability to describe stationary conditions.

the facts of economic life cannot be comprehensively described in terms of statistics.

Part of my job as a food writer is to describe food. So my work on 'Top Chef ' I feel, is an extension of that. When we give a criticism to the contestant, we want to make sure we tell them why it's not working and why it would work if they did it a different way.

If you are going to use white man's words to describe yourself, 'avatar' is more accurate than 'walker.

I will come by train. I will wear a yellow bonnet. I am plain and tall.

Ultimately, how far away exactly does a novelist remain? At the margins of life in order to describe it, because if you are immersed in it – in the action – the image you have of it is mixed up.

Una vez le canté los colores a un ciego. Toqué durante siete horas, pero al final me dijo que los veía: verde, rojo y dorado. Creo que eso fue más fácil que lo que intento hacer ahora. Tratar de que la entendáis describiéndola solo con palabras. Vosotros nunca la habéis visto ni habéis oído su voz. No podéis entenderlo.