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The limitations that we can see of the sexual description of reality are very apparent. Very few men attain enlightenment, even fewer women. — Frederick Lenz

Night was fading over the fields as if the rain had washed the darkness out of the hem of its garment. — Cornelia Funke

He swung around. His body, bathed in the first rays of the sun, was stippled
with color like a stained glass saint. — Cameron Dane

The job description for a queen changes with the times. — Queen Rania Of Jordan

If it is possible for the human tongue to give the fullest description of God, I have come to the conclusion that God is Truth. — Mahatma Gandhi

Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description. — Anthony De Mello

Serving humanity is fulfilling the description of Christ — Sunday Adelaja

The Book of Revelation is a description of one path to the New Jerusalem, but this scenario is not inevitable. — Barbara Marx Hubbard

Dark-bright fire lit eyes — Audre Lorde

Tomorrow was over the horizon and it would take an entire day to reach — Jonathan Safran Foer

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

I'll order anything that has the word 'fig' or 'crusted' in the menu description. — Michael Carbonaro

A picture is never anything but its own plural description. — Roland Barthes

She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything that was pleasant to do. — John Steinbeck

With these three qualities, it cannot be made the subject of description; and hence we blend them together and obtain The One. — Lao-Tzu

Her virtues were too numerous to describe, and not sufficiently interesting to deserve description. — Anthony Trollope

His eyes reflected the open grey of the autumnal sky. — Juliet Marillier

My new job description is making you laugh and chasing away the bad dreams." "I — Rachel Van Dyken

No matter what the job description says, your real job is to make the boss look good. — Lois Wyse

'Lucky Us' ends with a description of a photograph of the novel's fictional family. I could never get enough of my own family photo albums. — Amy Bloom

Description here. — Minecrafty Boy

They're politicians," her father pointed out dryly. "A good grip on reality isn't part of the job description. — Christopher G. Nuttall

Dorothy scratched her dark head, yawning wide, and white feathers floated out of her hair. — Laurie Lee

A dirty exterior is a great enemy to beauty of all descriptions. — Mary Martha Sherwood

What it must feel like to lie back with cut wrists in a warm bath, a voluptuous dwindling feeling. — Michael Cisco

As that ripe summer turned to autumn, the sunlight cooled to a slantwise gleam, bronzing the beach grass and setting the beetle-bung trees afire. — Geraldine Brooks

I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled. — Sam Taylor-Johnson

Listen to Paulette's description of her own values development, and you will begin to understand her uncommon strengths and — Thomas D. Kuczmarski

I am not someone who throws around the word 'self-esteem.' It is a fictional description. — Nicolle Wallace

The most foolish description of the young is that they are rebellious. The truth is that they are a fellowship of cowards. — Manu Joseph

Lying to the American people wasn't part of my job description. — Ralph W. Moss

Eyeing her as a critic eyes a doubtful painting. — Thomas Hardy

The yells and yammering, croaking, jibbering and jabbering; howls, growls and curses; shrieking and skriking, that followed were beyond description. — J.R.R. Tolkien

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

There's another word for a charmer, a more accurate description.
Sociopath — Sasha Grey

The kiss, the bodily surrender which would seem natural and but moderately attractive ... — Marcel Proust

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 — Michel De Montaigne

I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in their head. — Noah Baumbach

In description words adhere to certain objects, and have the effect on the sense of oysters, or barnacles. — William Carlos Williams

Multiple descriptions are better than one. — Gregory Bateson

[Mab] was pale, beautiful on a scale that beggared simple description, and I harbored a healthy and rational terror of her. — Jim Butcher

Both gospels employ the term "Son of God" exactly as it is used throughout the Hebrew Scriptures: as a royal title, not a description. — Reza Aslan

It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside. — Maud Hart Lovelace

Detonations crash in from nearby like walls she's a void at the center of. — Garth Risk Hallberg

One cannot build a future based on the description of a criminal past. — Max Gallo

But how can one regret what, to the mind, has never existed? Even loss is an inaccurate description, for what loss is without the awareness of losing? — Nicole Krauss

Who was that lad they used to try to make me read at Oxford? Ship- Shop- Schopenhauer. That's the name. A grouch of the most pronounced description. — P.G. Wodehouse

He had the complexion, lightly webbed, of outdoor living and indoor drinking, and was a high, handsome man who might have been cruel. — Shirley Hazzard

To make a precise scientific description of reality out of words is like trying to build a rigid structure out of pure quicksilver. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Tornadoes were, in out part of Central Illinois, the dimensionless point at which parallel lines met and whirled and blew up. They made no sense. — David Foster Wallace

A frenzy of activity that had mostly led him in circles: wasn't that a fairly accurate description of lust? — Jennifer Egan

Ian stepped out to where he knew I could clearly see and identify his tall, dark, and dangerous self. — Lisa Shearin

Trouble was her default setting. — C.J. Daugherty

I wouldn't say being in a film with The Rock was 'motivating.' 'Terrifying' would be a more accurate description. — Luke Evans

Temptation is impossible for me to resist ... Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description. — Tom Sizemore

Gloom and anguish is the description of the lives of those who live in darkness — Sunday Adelaja

The half-concealed disasters that constitute a life. — Don DeLillo

Smart as a whip, kinky enough to own one. — R.G. Alexander

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. — Philip Glass

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy. — Truman Capote

The living and dead were thrown together, and the dead looked away first.

-Description of Doomsday — Stanley Elkin

What we need now is the description of the "describer" or, in other words, we need a theory of the observer. — Heinz Von Foerster

All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera. — John Marshall

Like an entirely cloudless sky when one is going mountaineering ... — Marcel Proust

To put it succinctly: description without prescription is the germ of resignation, and prescription without description is mere whim. — Reza Negarestani

We live in a description of reality. — Jean Houston

Well, 'vacuum with a sparse dusting of probability waves' is an accurate description of just about everything in the universe, — Neal Stephenson

Even the kids, behind the slice of streetscape floating in the glass, had mastered the art of pretending not to see. — Garth Risk Hallberg

We really have no choice in the matter. We are given a description of the world that is much more potent and much deeper than you might realize. — Frederick Lenz

We turned an anthem into an assignment, a poem into a job description. — Rachel Held Evans

Dr. Wintermute beheld Mrs. Pinchbeck befeathered, beribboned, crinolined, corseted, frizzled, and festooned, though not wasted. — Laura Amy Schlitz

At boarding schools of every description, the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief; and of the senior, vice. — Mary Wollstonecraft

An intentional object is given by a word or a phrase which gives a description under which. — G. E. M. Anscombe

Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal. — Max Weber

His voice reminded me of the slow stretching descent of honey from a highly placed silver spoon. — J.A. George

Damn description, it is always disgusting. — Lord Byron

Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description. — Anna Quindlen

Such was the texture of her marble.
[In a description of Laura Trevelyan.] — Patrick White

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves. — Joseph Addison

Charm is that extra quality that defies description. — Alfred Lunt

Language description and metaphors seem readily available. The things I have to work harder at are plot, pacing, and form. — Sarah Hall

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

That distant look characteristic of people who do not wish to be agreeable ... — Marcel Proust

There's nothing the world loves more than a ready-made description which they can hang on to a man, and so save themselves all trouble in future. — W. Somerset Maugham

There was this hot, yellowy stillness the air always got in the minutes before the last bell, as if it were stiffening itself to be shattered. — Garth Risk Hallberg

There are moments of sincerity. Those moments float away like bubbles but he takes the trouble to dip the wand in the soap and blow them through. — Carole Radziwill

What are you? (a Daimon)
Oh please, let me give you the job description. Me, Dark-Hunter. You, Daimon. I hit, you bleed. I kill, you die. (Zarek) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

You can never appreciate the scent of a flower by another's description. Some things are left to experience. Journey of self. — Truth Devour

I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description — James Joyce

Awestruck, Flora stared at the dishevelled sisters with their blazing faces and radiant ragged wings, who smelled of no kin but the wild high air. — Laline Paull

I keep the description basic as it allows you to mould the story around your life. — Airam

In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom. — Samuel Johnson

My strong suits, coming from poetry, will naturally be description, which I love doing. It comes very easily, and possibly structure, up to a point. — Tobias Hill

my digs look as if they've been dug — David Nicholls

Jacob Thorke. My label, but not the description of a person. The prints are the most permanent thing about me. — Scott Kelly

Rew looked like he had put his face up to the sky in a rainstorm of freckles — Adina Rishe Gewirtz

Some days, the music is not in tune, but it's always a song worth singing.
That's the best description of a good marriage I've ever heard ... — Nora Roberts