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A bruised silence descended on the van.
— Hillary Jordan
We all look back at some time or other and wonder why we didn't listen to our instincts. Why did we hestiate? Why did we lose our dreams?
— Diane Griffith
A voice called out, cold as chloroform and old shame.
— Scott Lynch
When he did appear his eyes were as brown as I remembered, pupils flecked with gold like beach pebbles.
— Amber Dawn
Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Though it had been over a year, she staggered through the world like one freshly bludgeoned by love.
— Alexandra Kleeman
So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it.
— Camryn Manheim
A long descriptive name is better than a short enigmatic name. A long descriptive name is better than a long descriptive comment.
— Robert C. Martin
They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship's wake.
— Cormac McCarthy
A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical.
— Paul Dirac
In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods.
— Hans Arp
People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was color. All the color he had.
— Fredrik Backman
Abilene (AB-a-lene) adj. Descriptive of the pleasing coolness on the reverse side of the pillow.
— Douglas Adams
A shrieking battle cry echoed on the wind, a spine-tingling scream that sounded like the baying of the wolves closing in on their prey.
— Raymond E. Feist
If too descriptive, you lose the readers' ability to interpret. And that's a vital organ you don't want to fuck with.
— Jason Lebowitz
He's been spoiled 'til salt won't save him.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
Writing style can be descriptive without being wordy - and wordy without being descriptive
— Rayne Hall
Metrical geometry is thus a part of descriptive geometry, and descriptive geometry is all geometry.
— Arthur Cayley
My eyes skimmed over the legalese and bureaucratese (two languages I had never mastered), until I found something descriptive to
— Neal Stephenson
Unsettling, like seeing Stalin on a skateboard.
— David Nicholls
Pretty as a painting, but thorny as a rose.
— Jean Zimmerman
Bunches of flowers and kisses, their bodies locked together by a stopwatch.Descriptive on an affair — Susan Richards Shreve
I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
— Camryn Manheim
Even as winter comes, mornings are crisp, and the big, blue sky seems to hang newly washed over the sea of hills.
— Deborah Lawrenson
Just like the sun coming up yonder out of the sea, pushing rays of light ahead of it.
— Esther Forbes
What's descriptive isn't necessarily prescriptive.
— Alistair Begg
The pale sword came shivering through the air
— George R R Martin
The child was slender as fleeting hope.
— William Peter Blatty
Somewhere deep inside, his humanity had been shaken by something so unnatural, so foreign in its essence, his very being withdrew from it ...
— Tamara Rose Blodgett
The summer came upon the country like a conqueror.
— W. Somerset Maugham
I was stupid, the official descriptive phrase for happy.
— Daniel Handler
I feel her wave of worry like a patio heater - faint and ineffective, but constant.
— Neal Shusterman
Because of the foulness of her mother's emotional river, a current which ran swift, changing its path without warning ...
— Tamara Rose Blodgett
Sounds - the stretched-out, far-off kind - drift through the halls, and I close my eyes, trying to break them down.
— Victoria Schwab
His skin was blotched as a dying banana.
— David Mitchell
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His voice was like the cracking of ice on a winter lake, and the words were mocking
— George R R Martin
Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end.
— Haruki Murakami
Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretive.
— Elliott Erwitt
I like writing in an illustrative, descriptive way. I prefer describing to rather than explaining.
— Iron & Wine
It was a clear, black morning, encrusted with stars.
— Donna Tartt
Night came early to this neighborhood, the sun fleeing the sky, leaving heaven black and blue.
— Lisa Scottoline
Crabgrass is aptly descriptive of this hated weed, for it does scuttle quickly through a lawn.
— Allen Lacy
Now here he was: sartorially, facially and interpersonally sharpened; every inch the beatific boffin.
— Sam Byers
And it sounds like two tectonic plates are getting it on somewhere beneath us
— Daniel Jose Older
If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.
— Robert Delaunay
The ghouls leered at her, unbreathing, their flesh crisply necrotic like rice paper pressed over old oozing wounds.
— Scott Lynch
Always refer to those of the female gender as ladies.The descriptive woman is usually reserved in Dixie for females of questionable respect. — Ann Barrett Batson
Her shoes were comfortable. They reflected her hope for the evening.
— William Peter Blatty
Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks.
— Khaled Hosseini
We emerged onto the ruined street, where gaps showed in the rows of buildings like missing teeth
— Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Tess was carried along the wings of the hours
— Thomas Hardy
we may experience an absolute positive change and do the undone if we shift our thoughts from descriptive thinking to prescriptive thinking
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Dorothy scratched her dark head, yawning wide, and white feathers floated out of her hair.
— Laurie Lee
The moon hung heavy over the lake like an overripe orange, trickling its golden stream of light across inky depths.
— Julie Lessman
The river was so blue it seemed to be breathing.
— Brian Morton
God's Word does not merely impart information; it actually creates life. It's not only descriptive; it's effective too, God speaking is God acting.
— Michael Horton
The day was gray, the color of Europe.
— Markus Zusak
For Aaron, looking like a skeleton was very much for life, not just for Halloween
— Kestral M. Gaian
Interactive Decision Theory would perhaps be a more descriptive name for the discipline usually called Game Theory.
— Robert Aumann
I like Sade. I'm re-reading Juliette. I skip the philosophy and read the salacious bits. His descriptive imagination is incredible.
— Michael Gira
The roof was a gymnasium for the winds
— Thomas Hardy
At least descriptive psychology is probably, taken as a whole, a form of anthropomorphism, a nibbling at our own limits.
— Franz Kafka
Some scents sparkle and then quickly disappear, like the effervescence of ctirus zestor a bright note of mint.
— Deborah Lawrenson
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[T]welve year old Libby O'Shea coasted on a homemade swing, toes touching a blinding-blue heaven dolloped with clouds.
— Julie Lessman
Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city.
— Alexander Woollcott
When you have a company name that is to descriptive about what you do, you don't stand out.
— Philip J. Kaplan
... in my spell of uncertainty as to where I was...
— Marcel Proust
There was a hazy damp film in his eyes that I recognized from emotions in old movies, projected large on darkened screens.
— Alexandra Kleeman
She had once been the belle of her circle of small tradesmen and salesmen, but now her little pig eyes with their swollen lids could scarcely open.
— Boris Pasternak
