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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
My strength, by default, is my size over corners and my hands, which I know is in the job description, but that really matters.
Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.
The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title.
The three books I've written in Florida about L.A. are my best takes on the physicality of the city, as far as description goes.
Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached.
Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal.
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.
The last person I ever want working for me is someone who says 'that's not in my job description.
Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me.
The description of my character in the first few movies I did was always 'nerdy,' but I liked that; it was way more interesting.
The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong.
I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
landscape, that vast still life, invites description, not narration. It is lyric. It has no story: it is the beloved, and asks only to be contemplated.
My opinion with respect to immigration is, that except of useful mechanics and some particular description of men and professions, there is no use of encouragement.
I call myself a playmaker sometimes - but that's just a word. I don't feel like I have to have a title or a job description.
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.
Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs.
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
In meditation you can erase the conditioning. But still, you have to fight the description of the world that everyone else is carrying around.
As you become more conscious of your body as eternity, a sense of ease, a fullness beyond description occurs.
Someone said that my coaching is a combination of Milan's defensive discipline and the Dutch propensity for attacking football, and I think that is a fair description.
Lovecraft gives me the pip as he uses so much description that needs heavily condensing.
Suicide carries in its aftermath a level of confusion and devastation that is, for the most part, beyond description.
Gradually, you were given a description of the world, a way of seeing, which is largely sexual.
Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact.
The photograph [of Che Guevara], for a civilization now accustomed to thinking in images, was not the description of a single event... it was an argument.
Unfortunately, unless the job description included a translation of the prologue of The Canterbury Tales, I was dreadfully under-qualified.
When you realize that there's a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you've identified the problem, and now you can do something about it.
the description of lust was simple: two people learn they're compatible , attraction grows, and the ancient instinct to preserve the species kicks in.
In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom.
Ronnie had it right calling it Torture. That is a much more accurate description the way I see it.
For me, good description usually consists of a few well-chosen details that will stand for everything else.
Language description and metaphors seem readily available. The things I have to work harder at are plot, pacing, and form.
There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.
I lived in a brilliantly lit haze, shifting and flickering according to my changing desires. Of course, that is only a description of being young.
We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.
I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping.
Whenever I fill out the job description I put 'songwriter', never 'singer' or 'artist.' Singers come and go.
I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in their head.
I just never did buy this idea that you have to live in Los Angeles to be an actor. I didn't see that as a requirement in my job description.
'Founder' is a state of mind, not a job description, and if done right, even CEOs who join after day 1 can become founders.
London, Ontario, sits halfway between Detroit and Buffalo, a description that applies as much to its soul as to its geographical coordinates.
I haven't touched a piece of meat since I read a graphic description of Chicago's slaughterhouses when I was 12.
A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.
If you're selling something on Craiglist, it's never a good idea to end the description with, May have lice.
I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique - you didn’t see that as a job description anywhere.
I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique - you didn't see that as a job description anywhere.
The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.
My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City.
I have observed that as long as one lives and bestirs himself, he can always find food and raiment, though it may not be of the choicest description.
When philosophers try to understand consciousness, much of what they claim is not conceptual analysis at all, though it may be shopped under that description.
The description of the world that most people have is very limited. They are in the fog. Once in a while a genuine insight comes through.
Someone once told me that being in the closet is like living in a vertical casket. Perfect description.
I have this tattooed on my left side! I love the saying and it's a perfect description of Karma, don't judge/discriminate and don't do to someone what you wouldn't want done to you.
The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title
Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man.
For me, setting and description is a challenge. I always want to get that part just right, and sometimes the words won't work.
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
Every description of natural processes must be based on ideas which have been introduced and defined by the classical theory.
