Quotes About Description

She tried to grin, grateful. Of course: fund raising. The core of every job description in the nation, from schoolchildren on up to the president.

Terminus sniffed. "I guard borders. I don't kill giants. It's not in my job description.

In case you're wondering, Old York looks absolutely nothing like New York. It looks older. Magnus Chase, master of description. You're welcome.

she were forced to describe it, she would say that it tasted exactly like squirrel: fuzzy, damp, slightly nutty. "Have you lost your

Laconic" and "sarcastic," as the men in my regiment would later invariably describe me. Classic New England.

The horror of profound depression, and the hopelessness that usually accompanies it, are hard to imagine for those who have not experienced them. Because the despair is private, it is resistant to clear and compelling description.

He was tall and scrawny with a face that could be mistaken with Keith Richards on a bad day.

My nephew is a manipulative, scheming, unscrupulous son of a bitch. And those are his good qualities.

Picture a place called the Karma Kafe and it'll save me the bother of describing it. There was nothing in it you wouldn't expect, from the Buddha flowerpots to the wallpaper decorated with symbols that probably said, If you bought this just because it looked pretty, may Buddha piss in your coffee, you culturally ignorant moron.

As I started along the path, I noticed a young, dark-haired woman. But not Mina Lee. This one was taller than me, with long black hair that curled over her faded denim jacket. Native or Latina. She was watching me and making no effort to hide it. Mina Lee's partner? If so, she needed lessons in subtlety even more than Mina did.

este modo, los rusos describieron una trayectoria envolvente cuyos flancos se cerraron en tenaza en las proximidades de una ciudad llamada Tannenberg. Ambos

He's got hands so long and white and dainty I think they carved each other out of soap.

The power we call God defies description.

How could I describe our relationship even to myself without either disparaging it or insulting it with the tawdry decoration of sentimentality?

Well, what's wrong?" "I don't know, Doc, I just can't describe it! Please come over right away! Come now!

She has brown hair, and speaks small like a woman.

Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect-- as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode.

they think the image must remain in their conscious view the whole time they're describing it. Not so. Even if the image flickers for a second and disappears, you can still keep describing it from memory, just as you described the Taj Mahal.

it is psychologically impossible to describe a person or object from memory without first forming a mental image of it

The enterprise of describing something in language that has never been described before is a very difficult thing to do. When you decide to do away with old cliches or old phraseologies, and to come up with a new way of saying something, it's extremely difficult.

He had a face roughly the shape and color of a clumsily peeled Idaho potato, and he had a jaw like the end of a cigarette carton.

A buyer persona profile is a short biography of the typical customer, not just a job description but a person description," says Adele Revella,

Albert Einstein was asked one day by a friend "Do you believe that absolutely everything can be expressed scientifically?" "Yes, it would be possible," he replied, "but it would make no sense. It would be description without meaning—as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation in wave pressure." RONALD W. CLARK, Einstein: The Life and Times

Wow. So what was the vampire like?" "Pale. Big. Toothy," the trooper answered.