Description Quotes

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

In a universe that defies description, all systems of belief can only be false.

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

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

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.

The observer cannot be left out of the description of the observation.

An intentional object is given by a word or a phrase which gives a description under which.

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

Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff didn't like the word 'horror'. They, like I, went for the French description: 'the theatre of the fantastique'.

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.

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

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

My job description is... being enthusiastic.

All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.

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

Damn description, it is always disgusting.

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.

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

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

The power of the rosary is beyond description.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Line is so versatile - you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or simply put a line around an idea - like a cartoonist.

Multiple descriptions are better than one.

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.

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

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

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

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.

To me, self-description is a calamity.

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

Pain is pain. It needs no description.

The description is not the described.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

We live in a description of reality.

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

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

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

The job description for a queen changes with the times.

A picture is never anything but its own plural description.

Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.