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The road of the pass was hard and smooth and not yet dusty in the early morning.
— Ernest Hemingway,
The city was asleep, and the bookshop felt like a boat adrift in a sea of silence and shadows.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
She told him that he had the most beautiful voice she'd ever heard, that it sounded like whiskey and wood smoke.
— Dennis Lehane
That's what alcoholics do. It's in their job description: fall apart and then keep falling apart.
— Audrey Niffenegger
Beautiful was in the way that she moved and spoke. Beautiful was an action as well as a description.
— Danielle Paige
And the needles of the pine trees, freshly washed to a deep, rich green, shimmered with droplets that blinked like clear crystals.
— Billie Letts
He had a W.C. Fields twang and a nose like a prize strawberry.
— Kurt Vonnegut
This is exactly how the World Wide Web works: the HTML files are the pithy description on the paper tape, and your Web browser is Ronald Reagan.
— Neal Stephenson
Words and ideas are a description of reality, silence is a negation of reality. What is the reality itself?
— John Daido Loori
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
An old guy with a Hemingway beard and the build of a girl.
— Gillian Flynn
The feminist in me, who is small and sleeps a lot but can be scrappy when provoked, took umbrage at this description.
— Mary Roach
We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
The bowler approached the wicket at a lope, a trot, and then a run. He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.
— Douglas Adams
Thump Milton loomed over Ree, a fabled man, his face a monument of Ozark stone, with juts and angles and cold shaded parts the sun never touched.
— Daniel Woodrell
Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.
— Robert Genn
She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything that was pleasant to do.
— John Steinbeck
A writer need not be bound by flat statement like "It was a rough sea," when verbs like tumble and roil and seethe wait to spell from her pen.
— Rebecca McClanahan
Her virtues were too numerous to describe, and not sufficiently interesting to deserve description.
— Anthony Trollope
One of the ways to discover our toughness and resiliency is to look back at where we come from. (from Amazon description)
— Jeannette Walls
Amid them and amid the obdurate angels and the wildflowers pushing up through the earth, Richard could again be one among many.
— Garth Risk Hallberg
He had his head in hand hands, and his tie looked like it had been put on by an enemy, and was strangling him.
— Caitlin Moran
What would be the description of happines? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it, can be told.
— Andre Gide
I steal, Winkle said, with a smile that said I'm joking and a glint in his eye that said I'm not.
— Orson Scott Card
I told him I'd always found the description a little too long on adjectives and a little too short on specifics.
— Amor Towles
But a description of a tree is not a tree, and a thousand paper kisses will never equal the feel of Olly's lips against mine.
— Nicola Yoon
There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.
— Nancy Reagan
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
— John McCain
She was known for her volcanic passion for Romantic music that erupted regularly during her lessons, then cooled and settled in between.
— Tori De Clare
Seedy wasn't a fair description for the place, because seeds imply eventual regrowth and renewal.
— Jim Butcher
If one abandons their principles when tested by struggle, they were never true principles but advertisements for character they never possessed.
— Tiffany Madison
He would talk and talk and talk; the twilight would fill with cigarette smoke and shimmering words would tremble in the blue coils of air...
— Simone De Beauvoir
You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl. That's part of the job description, Mr. Maxfield. — Tammara Webber
Stu stood nearby also, his camera flash spastic and incessant, like the light of a caffeinated firefly.
— Tamara Ward
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
We really have no choice in the matter. We are given a description of the world that is much more potent and much deeper than you might realize.
— Frederick Lenz
My job description is that I'm a rock star. And I'm good at it.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
A constant repetition and a boundless incongruity of useless but indestructible objects.
— Marcel Proust
To be painted a villain, you have to do something, I guess, evil or something heinous, and I don't know if I fit that description.
— Richard Sherman
We ought not to attach ourselves to beings, it is not beings who exist in reality and are amenable to description, but ideas.
— Marcel Proust
I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all.
— Duane Michals
To put it succinctly: description without prescription is the germ of resignation, and prescription without description is mere whim.
— Reza Negarestani
The artist's morality lies in the force and truth of his description.
— Jules Amedee Barbey D'Aurevilly
Teachers are wonderful beings who inspire the spirit and open the mind.Nobody at Padua High School fits that description. — David Levithan
A baby is a symbol of peace, a plot of dreams, a light of hope, and a bundle of joy.
— Debasish Mridha
Overcrowding and poverty, that "defied description", as
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
They presented a description of the world to all of us which was very limited and narrow.
— Frederick Lenz
She leaned out of the window slow and sleepy, and the light came through her nightdress like sand through a sieve.
— Laurie Lee
I can't have everything I feel reduced to a textbook description that fits me, and millions of other broken idiots.
— C.J. Roberts
A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.
— Garry Winogrand
That's precisely what my novel is about. It's called Demons, and it's a description of how these demons entered the herd of swine.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It was a chilly morning after the night's rain, and the sun hung in the sky like a pale coin lost by someone high up in the clouds.
— Cornelia Funke
She was strong and stubborn but loving. She was an untouchable angel with a devil's mark. She was beautiful.
— Shannon A. Thompson
Salander was an information junkie with a delinquent child's take on morals and ethics.
— Stieg Larsson
I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description
— James Joyce
Whereas most other modern composers are engaged in manufacturing cocktails of every hue and description, I offer the public pure cold water.
— Jean Sibelius
There are moments of sincerity. Those moments float away like bubbles but he takes the trouble to dip the wand in the soap and blow them through.
— Carole Radziwill
Those who are long on logic, definitions, abstractions, and formulas are frequently short on a sense of the concrete.
— Flannery O'Connor
There's nothing the world loves more than a ready-made description which they can hang on to a man, and so save themselves all trouble in future.
— W. Somerset Maugham
No, indeed, 'pig' is very expressive. And an excellent description of a fellow who flirts with his brother's beloved.
— Kenneth Oppel
The unseen essential can be described in many ways and comes in many forms, but is always preceded by virtue.
— Bryant McGill
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[Mab] was pale, beautiful on a scale that beggared simple description, and I harbored a healthy and rational terror of her.
— Jim Butcher
It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.
— Maud Hart Lovelace
He had the complexion, lightly webbed, of outdoor living and indoor drinking, and was a high, handsome man who might have been cruel.
— Shirley Hazzard
Tornadoes were, in out part of Central Illinois, the dimensionless point at which parallel lines met and whirled and blew up. They made no sense.
— David Foster Wallace
As that ripe summer turned to autumn, the sunlight cooled to a slantwise gleam, bronzing the beach grass and setting the beetle-bung trees afire.
— Geraldine Brooks
The yells and yammering, croaking, jibbering and jabbering; howls, growls and curses; shrieking and skriking, that followed were beyond description.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Dorothy scratched her dark head, yawning wide, and white feathers floated out of her hair.
— Laurie Lee
Winter collapsed on us that year. It knelt, exhausted, and stayed.
— Emily Fridlund
The stark evening sun at the far edge of the town had just unzipped the sky and finally gone down.
— Jack Bunbury
Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.
— Susie Orbach
And still you are not the guy and still you fit the description because there is only one guy who is always the guy fitting the description.
— Claudia Rankine
Joie de vivre. Joy and life together. It's such an ironically perfect description of you.
— Rosamund Lupton
The living and dead were thrown together, and the dead looked away first.-Description of Doomsday — Stanley Elkin
Dr. Wintermute beheld Mrs. Pinchbeck befeathered, beribboned, crinolined, corseted, frizzled, and festooned, though not wasted.
— Laura Amy Schlitz
The day was hot, the sun high, and the silence was so think you'd have thought the sky didn't have any air in it.
— Alice Blanchard
The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action.
— Marshall McLuhan
She walked on, comforted by the surf, by the one perpetual moment of beach-time, the now-and-always of it.
— William Gibson
Whenever I fill out the job description I put 'songwriter', never 'singer' or 'artist.' Singers come and go.
— Brian McKnight
Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'
— Salman Rushdie
Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.
— Truman Capote
