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Description Quotes

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What comes, will go. What is found, will be lost again. But what you are is beyond coming and going and beyond description.
Rumi

Authors on Description Quotes: Frederick Lenz C. S. Lewis Stephen King Van Morrison Jim Butcher Christopher Lee Henri Nouwen Roland Barthes Hugh Prather Mason Cooley Austin Osman Spare Janet Malcolm Beilby Porteus Gaston Bachelard Richard Rorty Virgil Thomson Jose Padilha Bing Crosby Mario Batali Baron de Montesquieu Mahatma Gandhi R. D. Laing Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Christopher Paolini George Washington Ronald Coase Louisa May Alcott Max Gallo Anthony de Mello Jasper Johns David Duke Lauren Grodstein Robert Genn
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In a universe that defies description, all systems of belief can only be false.
Austin Osman Spare

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

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

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My hope is that the description of God's love in my life will give you the freedom and the courage to discover... God's love in yours.
Henri Nouwen

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The observer cannot be left out of the description of the observation.
John Archibald Wheeler

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An intentional object is given by a word or a phrase which gives a description under which.
G. E. M. Anscombe

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It is incumbent upon every person of every description to contribute to his country's welfare.
George Washington

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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

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Once or twice I`ve been described as a light comedian. I consider this the most accurate description of my abilities I`ve ever seen.
Bing Crosby

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I regret very much that I have painted a picture that requires any description.
Winslow Homer

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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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My job description is... being enthusiastic.
Dhani Harrison

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All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.
Gautama Buddha

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What we need now is the description of the "describer" or, in other words, we need a theory of the observer.
Heinz von Foerster

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Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it is simply a description of what going back is like.
C. S. Lewis

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For a sorcerer, reality, or the world as we all know it, is only a description.
Carlos Castaneda

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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
Lord Byron

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

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The power of the rosary is beyond description.
Fulton J. Sheen

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Love is something so divine, Description would but make it less; 'Tis what I feel, but can't define, 'Tis what I know but can't express
Beilby Porteus

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Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me.
Hugh Prather

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That still feels like the most accurate description - I felt homesick, but I was home.
Sarah Silverman

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Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.
C. S. Lewis

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Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.
Anthony de Mello

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Descriptions of my work depress me. They make me feel pinned down.
Thom Mayne

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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

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Multiple descriptions are better than one.
Gregory Bateson

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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

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A random sequence is one that cannot be algorithmically compressed : the shortest description of a random sequence is simply the sequence itself.
Gregory Chaitin

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I have never supported white supremacism but I read this [this description of me] in the papers.
David Duke

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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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Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations.
Alan Keyes

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To me, self-description is a calamity.
Jasper Johns

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

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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
Gaston Bachelard

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One who is caught in thought loses one's original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual thing, he fails to perceive it.
Dalai Lama

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Ronnie had it right calling it Torture. That is a much more accurate description the way I see it.
Ronald Coase

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What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close.
Tori Amos

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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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We live in a description of reality.
Jean Houston

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What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is.
Terence McKenna

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

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For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.
John le Carre

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The description is not the described.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Pain is pain. It needs no description.
Christopher Paolini

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Trade is a social act. Whoever undertakes to sell any description of any goods to the public, does what affects the interest of other persons, and of society in general; and thus his conduct, in principal, comes within the jurisdiction of society.
John Stuart Mill

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The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is.
Janet Malcolm

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

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When we have this description, of what a sketch is, itsattributes, we can then start inventing new things thatshare those attributes, and therefore improve our currenttechnics by inventing new and better tools that help ussketch.
Bill Buxton