Quotes by Description Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description. Robert Genn description suggestions mystery A picture is never anything but its own plural description. Roland Barthes description Ronnie had it right calling it Torture. That is a much more accurate description the way I see it. Ronald Coase description calling way What comes, will go. What is found, will be lost again. But what you are is beyond coming and going and beyond description. Rumi description found lost There was a time when "sound as a dollar" was a description, not a joke. Ronald Reagan description dollars sound That still feels like the most accurate description - I felt homesick, but I was home. Sarah Silverman description home feels Don't be limited by your job description. Stacey Snider description jobs Line is so versatile - you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or simply put a line around an idea - like a cartoonist. Stan Smith description lines ideas For me, good description usually consists of a few well-chosen details that will stand for everything else. Stephen King description details writing Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story. Stephen King description reader stories What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is. Terence McKenna description psychedelic states Descriptions of my work depress me. They make me feel pinned down. Thom Mayne description depressing feels What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close. Tori Amos description chinese girl J.P. Donleavy - now he's one writer I am consistent with. He's written books that I can definitely connect with. He has amazing insights which other people missed out on. Even with his descriptions of Northern Ireland. Van Morrison description book people The description and explanation is the best part of music reviewing. There is such a thing, and you know it too, as a gift for judgment. If you have it, you can say anything you like. If you haven't got it, you don't know you haven't got it. Virgil Thomson description judgment say-anything Discovered W. Somerset Maugham in about 5th grade. Didn't understand the plots, but loved the descriptions. W. P. Kinsella description grades plot Thus the theory of description matters most. Wallace Stevens description matter world I regret very much that I have painted a picture that requires any description. Winslow Homer i-regret description regret 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 description today past Whatever my job description consists of, becomes my job. Maybe it's just the way I tackle work, in general. Zoe Bell description jobs way «123456»
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