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His chin looked as though a farsighted person had attempted to sew two thickly cut pieces of bacon together in a dark room.
— Christopher Paul Curtis
Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films.
— Terry Pratchett
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
— Charles De Secondat
Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people.
— Jose Padilha
She got on a plane to see a client in California and somewhere over Colorado, the pilot somehow missed the sky.
— Jonathan Tropper
What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is.
— Terence McKenna
She resents the chipped paint of the table and the dingy closet they call a dressing room. (Dark City Lights)
— Annette Meyers
If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'.
— Winona Ryder
There are no descriptions, it is almost needless to say, of Caesar, Napoleon, Hitler, or for that matter, Jefferson Davis playing with kittens.
— Margaret Korda
People may be understood through the art they produce or by descriptions from friends and family, by observation, or through their dreams.
— Salomon Grimberg
I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened by actions.
— Jack Kerouac
Descriptions all fall flat and tame unless the Holy Ghost fills them with life and power
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
He struggled wildly and got one hand free just as a fist looped down into his face like a runaway moon.
— Stephen King
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
— William Hazlitt
All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.
— Gautama Buddha
The old, slow, creaking descriptions are a thing of the past; today the rule is brevity - but every word must be supercharged, high-voltage.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
callings have little to do with formal job descriptions. In fact, she believes that just
— Angela Duckworth
One single glance will conquer all descriptions.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Recipes are just descriptions of one person's take on one moment in time. They're not rules.
— Mario Batali
All three explanations - eternal life, reincarnation, and nothingness - are descriptions of the same reality.
— John K. Brown
When the truth is known, all descriptions cease, and silence alone remains. #Yoga Vasistha
— Abhishek Kumar
A damp, gray sky covered southern Ohio like the skin of a corpse.
— Donald Ray Pollock
She is a great gobbler of books, but reads only trash, memorizing nothing and leaving out the longer descriptions.
— Vladimir Nabokov
I warned you about those sexually graphic descriptions. Now you've alienated our only breakfast friend, a homophobic Republican on crack.
— Edmond Manning
Clinical descriptions and Epidemiology
— Ann M. Kring
Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations.
— Daniel Kahneman
The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.
— Neil Gaiman
Matter-of-fact descriptions make the improbable seem real.
— Mason Cooley
Avoid restaurants with names that are improbable descriptions, such as the Purple Goose, the Blue Kangaroo or the Quilted Orangutan.
— Calvin Trillin
I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of personal experiences.
— Antony Beevor
You can be as sharp-tongued as a viper, but you can also be as sweet as wild clover honey.
— Raymond E. Feist
A dirty exterior is a great enemy to beauty of all descriptions.
— Mary Martha Sherwood
I am not fond of lengthy descriptions of phony artworks.
— Rachel Kushner
All descriptions of matter are descriptions of modes of human perception within consciousness.
— Deepak Chopra
Multiple descriptions are better than one.
— Gregory Bateson
Descriptions and analyses of what exists are important but certainly not sufficient. We also need to understand what could be.
— Michael Neocosmos
She'd hardly describe Trent as "cute." Adonis, stud-like, hottie McHot Hot, even pulchritudinous - all acceptable descriptions. Hardly just cute.
— Jennifer Shirk
They are descriptions of what real life looks like, not prescriptions for how to get life.
— Gregory A. Boyd
Course titles and even course descriptions often fail to reveal what is actually taught (much less learned) ...
— F. M. Scherer
The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not.
— Richard Rorty
Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality.
— Albert Einstein
But then one is always excited by descriptions of money changing hands. It's much more fundamental than sex.
— Nigel Dennis
Build a shield between yourself and the descriptions of the world that everyone else has.
— Frederick Lenz
Motherhood is like Albania- you can't trust the descriptions in the books, you have to go there.
— Marni Jackson
There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe.
— Horace Walpole
Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left.
— Barton Seaver
When adding descriptions to your online listings or printed materials, lead with benefits and follow with features.
— James Dillehay