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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 stippledwith 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
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
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
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
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
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[Mab] was pale, beautiful on a scale that beggared simple description, and I harbored a healthy and rational terror of her.
— Jim Butcher
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
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
The half-concealed disasters that constitute a life.
— Don DeLillo
Smart as a whip, kinky enough to own one.
— R.G. Alexander
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
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
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
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
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
In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom.
— Samuel Johnson
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
