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I found the brightness of the outdoors, rectangled through large glass panels.
— Alexandra Kleeman
The road of the pass was hard and smooth and not yet dusty in the early morning.
— Ernest Hemingway,
The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is.
— Janet Malcolm
Even the beauty of the landscape was an abstraction, like the beauty of a man in an advertisement for a cologne you could not smell.
— Garth Risk Hallberg
The author's alliterative description of politics since the 1960 presidential debates: "Government by Gotcha".
— David Pietrusza
Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.
— Blaise Pascal
In meditation you can erase the conditioning. But still, you have to fight the description of the world that everyone else is carrying around.
— Frederick Lenz
A random sequence is one that cannot be algorithmically compressed : the shortest description of a random sequence is simply the sequence itself.
— Gregory Chaitin
The truly enlightened are not necessarily very religious. Religon is a convienent description to take care of our fears, to passify us.
— Frederick Lenz
The kind of person took milk in his tea on one day and decided against it on the next.
— Anne Enright
A full description of a person's life, however uneventful or uninteresting, fills a large folder.
— Henning Mankell
I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel,a 50-page description of you sleeping. — Dean Young
No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
Addiction is not a fact of life but a description about how we are choosing to live.
— Paul Pearsall
Thump Milton loomed over Ree, a fabled man, his face a monument of Ozark stone, with juts and angles and cold shaded parts the sun never touched.
— Daniel Woodrell
Its almost as if he was raised by wolves, but wolves who knew the value of a decent education.
— David Nicholls
How impossibly clean-cut, with its twin sets of twelve, neat as walnut shells.
— Karen Thompson Walker
I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.
— John McGahern
The sun shined and winked through wind-rustled leaves to paint the roadway with an ever-shifting mosaic of light and shadows.
— Stackpole, Michael A.
One of the ways to discover our toughness and resiliency is to look back at where we come from. (from Amazon description)
— Jeannette Walls
Until it had acquired the strength to create in my mind a fresh example of absolute, unproductive beauty ...
— Marcel Proust
Amid them and amid the obdurate angels and the wildflowers pushing up through the earth, Richard could again be one among many.
— Garth Risk Hallberg
Conceptual art is entirely word-bound. It is, in fact, the kind of art that is exhausted in its verbal description.
— Alexander Stoddart
He wasn't that good looking, he had the social skills of a wet cat and the patience of a caffeinated hummingbird
— Karen Chance
If one abandons their principles when tested by struggle, they were never true principles but advertisements for character they never possessed.
— Tiffany Madison
You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl. That's part of the job description, Mr. Maxfield. — Tammara Webber
Stu stood nearby also, his camera flash spastic and incessant, like the light of a caffeinated firefly.
— Tamara Ward
Review your description of the world, what it is to be a woman, and see how inadequate it is.
— Frederick Lenz
I can't have everything I feel reduced to a textbook description that fits me, and millions of other broken idiots.
— C.J. Roberts
My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City.
— Philip Morrison
Unfortunately, unless the job description included a translation of the prologue of The Canterbury Tales, I was dreadfully under-qualified.
— Rachel Vincent
If I could tell you about RedI would sing to you of fire Sweet like cherries
Burning like cinnamon Smelling like a rose in the sun — Dixie Dawn Miller Goode
I haven't touched a piece of meat since I read a graphic description of Chicago's slaughterhouses when I was 12.
— Christie Brinkley
He looked as if he had been beaten to death with a wine bottle, but by doing it with the contents of the bottle.
— Richard Brautigan
I think an Agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind. The whole subject [of God] is beyond the scope of man's intellect.
— Charles Darwin
The description of lust was simple: two people learn they're compatible , attraction grows, and the ancient instinct to preserve the species kicks in.
— Nicholas Sparks
To say that a man is made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for those who intend to use him as a fertilizer.
— Hermann Joseph Muller
They presented a description of the world to all of us which was very limited and narrow.
— Frederick Lenz
Joie de vivre. Joy and life together. It's such an ironically perfect description of you.
— Rosamund Lupton
He closed his eyes and let his head fall back, his visage a portrait of sex. (A description of Dante).
— Marita A. Hansen
Only more keenly aware of how her soul starved within her, its wings wasting with the despair of disuse.
— Alison Croggon
But a description of a tree is not a tree, and a thousand paper kisses will never equal the feel of Olly's lips against mine.
— Nicola Yoon
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
We take turns being smart for each other; I think it's part of the job description of being a couple.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
It's definitely part of my job description not to be too fat.
— Elizabeth Hurley
Blue was a fanciful, but sensible thing. Like a platypus, or one of those sandwiches that had been cut into circles for a fancy tea party.
— Maggie Stiefvater
A frenzy of activity that had mostly led him in circles: wasn't that a fairly accurate description of lust?
— Jennifer Egan
It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.
— Maud Hart Lovelace
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
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 dirty exterior is a great enemy to beauty of all descriptions.
— Mary Martha Sherwood
They're politicians," her father pointed out dryly. "A good grip on reality isn't part of the job description.
— Christopher G. Nuttall
And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only silence.
— Mark Z. Danielewski
In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom.
— Samuel Johnson
Jacob Thorke. My label, but not the description of a person. The prints are the most permanent thing about me.
— Scott Kelly
We live in a description of reality.
— Jean Houston
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
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
At boarding schools of every description, the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief; and of the senior, vice.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Canary light of oil lamps
— Jonathan Safran Foer
The observer cannot be left out of the description of the observation.
— John Archibald Wheeler
The 'Wild West' is a good description of law enforcement in the desert southwest USA.
— Steven Magee
His voice reminded me of the slow stretching descent of honey from a highly placed silver spoon.
— J.A. George
I like to be right. I try not to miss the big ideas, forget the little ones, and try to get them right. End of job description.
— Jeremy Grantham
Exceptionalism" is a shared self-description of imperial forms and . . . every empire imagines itself an exception.
— Ann Laura Stoler
... with a quiet suggestion of infinity...
— Marcel Proust
Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing.
— Ishmael Reed
The stark evening sun at the far edge of the town had just unzipped the sky and finally gone down.
— Jack Bunbury
It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
— Alan W. Watts
No, indeed, 'pig' is very expressive. And an excellent description of a fellow who flirts with his brother's beloved.
— Kenneth Oppel
Day by day we are summoned beyond a safe theological "knowledge of description" to one of unpredictable "acquaintance.
— Susan S. Phillips
You are a genius beyond description, so start telling yourself that and become aware of who you really are.
— Rhonda Byrne
Birds looked like an echo of birds, fat white clouds looked as if they were there to sell you fabric softener or air travel or health insurance.
— Alexandra Kleeman
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
— Gaston Bachelard
