Quotes and Sayings About Description
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Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations.
-- Alan Keyes -
One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life.
-- Andrew Solomon -
Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.
-- Anthony de Mello -
That's what alcoholics do. It's in their job description: fall apart and then keep falling apart.
-- Audrey Niffenegger -
In a universe that defies description, all systems of belief can only be false.
-- Austin Osman Spare -
Love is something so divine, Description would but make it less; 'Tis what I feel, but can't define, 'Tis what I know but can't express
-- Beilby Porteus -
When we have this description, of what a sketch is, itsattributes, we can then start inventing new things thatshare those attributes, and therefore improve our currenttechnics by inventing new and better tools that help ussketch.
-- Bill Buxton -
Once or twice I`ve been described as a light comedian. I consider this the most accurate description of my abilities I`ve ever seen.
-- Bing Crosby -
Science is the description of phenomena and the formulation of their relations.
-- Boris Sidis -
Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff didn't like the word 'horror'. They, like I, went for the French description: 'the theatre of the fantastique'.
-- Christopher Lee -
Pain is pain. It needs no description.
-- Christopher Paolini -
My job description is... being enthusiastic.
-- Dhani Harrison -
Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.
-- Duane Michals -
String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string.
-- Edward Witten -
The power of the rosary is beyond description.
-- Fulton J. Sheen -
All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.
-- Gautama Buddha -
It is incumbent upon every person of every description to contribute to his country's welfare.
-- George Washington -
Bliss defies description, obviously, since it annihilates you, since you're not there to experience it. You get the lead-up and the come-down, never the zenith.
-- Glen Duncan -
Multiple descriptions are better than one.
-- Gregory Bateson -
A random sequence is one that cannot be algorithmically compressed : the shortest description of a random sequence is simply the sequence itself.
-- Gregory Chaitin -
What we need now is the description of the "describer" or, in other words, we need a theory of the observer.
-- Heinz von Foerster -
Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me.
-- Hugh Prather -
We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
-- Iris Murdoch -
Of all the many memoirs by former Soviet officials, Palazchenko's is among the best written and also the most objective. Even his descriptions of U.S. policy are more accurate and judicious than those of some American scholars.
-- Jack F. Matlock, Jr. -
The observer and the universe are part of the same universe. It's what science discovered at the beginning of this century, when they say you can't tell where an atomic particle is. You know where they are, but not their speed; or you know their speed but not their place, because it depends on you. The one who describes is part of the description.
-- Jean-Luc Godard -
Seedy wasn't a fair description for the place, because seeds imply eventual regrowth and renewal.
-- Jim Butcher
