Quotes of: Descriptive Keyword

Jacob Thorke. My label, but not the description of a person. The prints are the most permanent thing about me.

Love

Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.

Kary Mullis

And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only silence.

House of Leaves

There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.

Nancy Reagan

Politicians, it's in their job description to just lie, every day.

Rob Delaney

Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.

Susie Orbach

I'm not the most detailed writer. I have a tendency to be more action-oriented vs. descriptive.

Lisa Gardner

I've come to see the mosh pit as an apt description of American society - and of my childhood home. I was number nine of ten creative, mostly loud kids competing for airspace.

Laurie Helgoe

The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.

William Irwin Thompson

Our culture has created two almost irreconcilable descriptions of a 'good woman.' The first is the individual achiever; the second, the self-sacrificing domestic goddess.

Martha Beck

I wanted to be the conduit for somebody else's experiences, filtered through me, and passed on to other people. Which is the job description, really.

Juliet Stevenson

As a militant troublemaker, I once wrote that it was the duty of every woman worthy of the description to upset men at least three times a day, on principle.

Julie Burchill

I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person.'

Vanessa Lengies

Sufficiently simple natural structures are predictable but uncontrollable, whereas sufficiently complex symbolic descriptions are controllable but unpredictable.

Love

There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe.

The Castle of Otranto

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Louise Brooks

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

Tori Amos: Piece by Piece

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.

Sam Taylor-Wood

I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique - you didn't see that as a job description anywhere.

Kevin Nealon

I wouldn't say being in a film with The Rock was 'motivating.' 'Terrifying' would be a more accurate description.

Luke Evans