Description Quotations

The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe.

It's definitely part of my job description not to be too fat.

I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique - you didn't see that as a job description anywhere.

I can be described as many things, but no description of me is complete without saying 'Englishman.' My parents were from Liverpool and emigrated to Canada before I was born.

Descriptions of my work depress me. They make me feel pinned down.

Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.

What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close.

My job description is... being enthusiastic.

For a sorcerer, reality, or the world as we all know it, is only a description.

Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations.

It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.

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.

I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.

But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is.

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

Charm is that extra quality that defies description.

What is your one-sentence job description?

Pain is pain. It needs no description.

Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.

Multiple descriptions are better than one.

To me, self-description is a calamity.

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.

We live in a description of reality.

Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff didn't like the word 'horror'. They, like I, went for the French description: 'the theatre of the fantastique'.

Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.

The power of the rosary is beyond description.

Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me.

We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.

Seedy wasn't a fair description for the place, because seeds imply eventual regrowth and renewal.

A singer is someone who puts out an album. That's a very generous description.

What we take anything to be profoundly affects how we go about describing it, and how we describe something profoundly affects how we go about explaining, accounting for, or understanding what is what we are, in a sense, defining, by our description.

God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification

Recipes are just descriptions of one person’s take on one moment in time. They’re not rules.

Even in the midst of love-making, writers are working on the description.

I can't please everyone. That's not in my J.D., you know, not in my job description.

'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.

Trade is a social act. Whoever undertakes to sell any description of any goods to the public, does what affects the interest of other persons, and of society in general; and thus his conduct, in principal, comes within the jurisdiction of society.

We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place.

The observer cannot be left out of the description of the observation.

Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people.

Damn description, it is always disgusting.

Alphas simply did not grovel; arrogance was part of the job description.

For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.

Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine.

A skilled worker, regardless of the job description, remains a treasure.

Love scenes, if genuine, are indescribable; for to those who have enacted them the most elaborate description seems tame, and to those who have not, the simplest picture seems overdone.

I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description.

I wanted to be the conduit for somebody else's experiences, filtered through me, and passed on to other people. Which is the job description, really.

I've been called a minimalist composer for more than 30 years, and while I've never really agreed with the description, I've gotten used to it.

The job description for a queen changes with the times.

What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is.

A picture is never anything but its own plural description.

Ronnie had it right calling it Torture. That is a much more accurate description the way I see it.

Don't be limited by your job description.

The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not.

You are a genius beyond description, so start telling yourself that and become aware of who you really are.

The description and explanation is the best part of music reviewing. There is such a thing, and you know it too, as a gift for judgment. If you have it, you can say anything you like. If you haven't got it, you don't know you haven't got it.

I regret very much that I have painted a picture that requires any description.

That still feels like the most accurate description - I felt homesick, but I was home.

Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it is simply a description of what going back is like.

Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.

One who is caught in thought loses one's original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual thing, he fails to perceive it.

It is incumbent upon every person of every description to contribute to his country's welfare.

Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism.

The description is not the described.

My hope is that the description of God's love in my life will give you the freedom and the courage to discover... God's love in yours.

I have observed that as long as one lives and bestirs himself, he can always find food and raiment, though it may not be of the choicest description.

The power we call God defies description.

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

There was a time when "sound as a dollar" was a description, not a joke.

What comes, will go. What is found, will be lost again. But what you are is beyond coming and going and beyond description.

For me, good description usually consists of a few well-chosen details that will stand for everything else.

Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story.