Quotes About Description

It is difficult to describe paths of thought where there are already many paths laid down, and not fall into one of the grooves

I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.

Executive teams we have worked with can often, in hindsight, lay out a clear chronology of the stages of their organization's development and the events that triggered the transition from one stage to the next. But in the moment these same people found it very difficult to describe exactly what was happening.

The most dreadful scenes, the worst in Dante's Inferno, for example, can be visualized by the inner eye; and sounds, too, are conveyed to us in a description so that they can be heard mentally; but it is not so with smells.

Her wavy, shoulder-length hair was the colour of polished mahogany.

The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.

he was tall and lean, had hollow cheeks, thick pale lips, and a nose like a big ragged chunk of granite shoved into his face. His

no complex, nonlinear system can be adequately described by dividing it up into subsystems or into various aspects, defined beforehand.

He said all I could do was tell them, so that is what I did, I told them all the long the short and the tall

People sometimes say: 'A picture is worth a thousand words.' That's true. But language is never far away. To talk about the picture, you may need a thousand words.

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

Todas as cores da poesia, apesar de esplêndidas, nunca podem pintar os objetos naturais de tal modo que se torne a descrição pela paisagem real. O pensamento mais vivo é sempre inferior à sensação mais embaçada.

Yes, I know this narrative is crowded with beautiful women - Mrs. Pearson, Mrs. Maycott, Mrs. Lavien, Mrs. Bingham. We might form a cricket team of beautiful women. I cannot help it if they are the ones who excite my notice and so trouble myself to describe.

It's a pretty crazy task to try to describe God "quickly." Everything starts with a healthy fear of Him.

Faith is the physical description of God. That's what He is. It's the only word we have in our language to accurately describe His physical form.

There is a power in God's gospel beyond all description.

The wonders of God is beyond description.

The fact that mathematics does such a good job of describing the Universe is a mystery that we don't understand. And a debt that we will probably never be able to repay.

But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

What would be the description of happines? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it, can be told.

A chronicle is very different from history proper.

I had what can only be described as the worst voice in the history of music.

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.

No charm, no humor, no wit -- and a personality which can only be described as 'icky.' .