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I wish I were better at straightforward description. I feel like I'm usually overdoing it or underdoing it, and it takes a lot of tweaking to get the details right.

Lauren Grodstein
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Damn description, it is always disgusting. by Lord Byron

Damn description, it is always disgusting.

Lord Byron
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Love scenes, if genuine, are indescribable; for to those who have enacted them the most elaborate description seems tame, and to those who have not, the simplest picture seems overdone.

Louisa May Alcott
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We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must... by Ludwig Wittgenstein

We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
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A skilled worker, regardless of the job description, remains a tr... by Madeleine M. Kunin

A skilled worker, regardless of the job description, remains a treasure.

Madeleine M. Kunin
descriptiontreasurejobs
I can't please everyone. That's not in my J.D., you know, not in... by Maria Sharapova

I can't please everyone. That's not in my J.D., you know, not in my job description.

Maria Sharapova
descriptionpleasejobs
Recipes are just descriptions of one person’s take on one moment... by Mario Batali

Recipes are just descriptions of one person’s take on one moment in time. They’re not rules.

Mario Batali
descriptionrecipesmoments
The power we call God defies description. by Mahatma Gandhi

The power we call God defies description.

Mahatma Gandhi
descriptiongod
One single glance will conquer all descriptions. by Martin Farquhar Tupper

One single glance will conquer all descriptions.

Martin Farquhar Tupper
descriptionconquervision
. . . a dirty exterior is a great enemy to beauty of all descript... by Mary Martha Sherwood

. . . a dirty exterior is a great enemy to beauty of all descriptions.

Mary Martha Sherwood
descriptionenemydirty
One cannot build a future based on the description of a criminal... by Max Gallo

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

Max Gallo
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'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.

Meghan O'Rourke
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Even in the midst of love-making, writers are working on the desc... by Mason Cooley

Even in the midst of love-making, writers are working on the description.

Mason Cooley
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Addiction is not a fact of life but a description about how we ar... by Paul Pearsall

Addiction is not a fact of life but a description about how we are choosing to live.

Paul Pearsall
descriptionaddictionfacts
The job description for a queen changes with the times. by Queen Rania of Jordan

The job description for a queen changes with the times.

Queen Rania of Jordan
descriptionqueensjobs

What we take anything to be profoundly affects how we go about describing it, and how we describe something profoundly affects how we go about explaining, accounting for, or understanding what is what we are, in a sense, defining, by our description.

R. D. Laing
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Unfortunately, unless the job description included a translation of the prologue of The Canterbury Tales, I was dreadfully under-qualified.

Rachel Vincent
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You are a genius beyond description, so start telling yourself that and become aware of who you really are.

Rhonda Byrne
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The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not. by Richard Rorty

The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not.

Richard Rorty
descriptionworld

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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