Quotes of: Descriptive Keyword

Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'

Salman Rushdie

The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were descriptions of life in the city.

Ruben Blades

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

John le Carre

Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue.

Douglas Wood

The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title.

Gene Tierney

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations.

Daniel Kahneman

Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.

Benjamin Tucker

If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'.

Winona Ryder

It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.

Alan W. Watts

Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work process - in dismissal.

Nigel Rees

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.

John McCain

The most foolish description of the young is that they are rebellious. The truth is that they are a fellowship of cowards.

Manu Joseph

I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of personal experiences.

Antony Beevor

I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.

John McGahern

To me, feminism is such a simple description: it's equal rights, economic rights, political rights, and social rights.

Callie Khouri

The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.

John Marshall

Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people.

Jose Padilha

Someone once told me that being in the closet is like living in a vertical casket. Perfect description.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

My joy at the sensation of my mind opening up and expanding was beyond description.

Jung Chang

Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying.

Noam Chomsky