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• The only object of theoretical physics is to calculate results that can be compared with experiment... it is quite unnecessary that any satisfactory description of the whole course of the phenomena should be given.

  Paul Dirac

  Theoretical Physics, Unnecessary, Mechanic

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• Motherhood is like Albania- you can't trust the descriptions in the books, you have to go there.

  Marni Jackson

  Mom, Mother, Book

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• One reason I avoid the American TV talk show circuit, when I'm over there, is that the tabloids and the gossip mill are always churning with new, true, or untrue stories about new loves, old loves, pending marriages, divorces, trial separations, flings and affairs with people of every description. I'm not into any of that.

  George Harrison

  Divorce, People, Gossip

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• If it is possible for the human tongue to give the fullest description of God, I have come to the conclusion that God is Truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Giving, Tongue

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.66, A&C Black

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• The power we call God defies description.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Military, India

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• Screenplays are not writing. They're a fake form of writing. It's a lot of dialogue and very little atmosphere. Very little description. Very little character work. It's very dangerous. You'll never learn to write.

  Ray Bradbury

  Character, Writing, Fake

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.181, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• My greatest strength as a writer is that I'm a storyteller. But, it was a long, hard struggle for me to make the transition from verbally telling stories to writing them. You'll note I don't dwell on descriptions in my writing, because I'm far more interested in telling the story. There are many better writers in this world, but you'd be hard pressed to find anyone more passionate about stories than I am.

  Debbie Macomber

  Struggle, Writing, Long

  Source: bookpage.com

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• Here's the problem: the description of the world is always reduced to yes or no, black or white. Superficial stories. Superhero stories. One side is the good one. The other one is evil.

  Marjane Satrapi

  White, Evil, Superhero

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The main difference between commissioned work and work I do for myself is that if I'm doing for myself, I don't have to worry about sticking to an art description or working for a specific audience or project.

  Julie Dillon

  Art, Differences, Worry

  Source: littleredreviewer.wordpress.com

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• I'm a visual thinker. With almost all of my writing, I start with something that's visual: either the way someone says something that is visual or an actual visual description of a scene and color.

  Gerald Vizenor

  Writing, Color, Way

  Source: www.dwrl.utexas.edu

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• After many unhappy experiments in the direction of an ideal Republic, it was found that what may be described as a Despotism tempered by Dynamite provides, on the whole, the most satisfactory description of ruler - an autocrat who dares not abuse his autocratic power.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Abuse, Unhappy, Democracy

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.1049, Oxford University Press

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• As unbalanced parties of every description can never tolerate a free inquiry of any kind, when employed against themselves, the license, and even the most temperate freedom of the press, soon excite resentment and revenge.

  John Adams

  Revenge, Party, Inquiry

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.273

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• Man torturing man is a fiend beyond description. You turn a corner in the dark and there he is. You congeal into a bundle of inanimate fear. You become the very soul of anesthesia. But there is no escaping him. It is your turn now.

  Henry Miller

  Fear, Dark, Men

  Henry Miller (1945). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, [New York] : New directions

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• Remarks such as 'great Australian', 'larger than life' are sometimes used where they are not appropriate. But in the case of Kerry Packer both of those descriptions are entirely appropriate. He was a great Australian, he was a larger than life character and in so many ways he left his mark on the Australian community over a very long career in business, particularly in the media and also that other great passion of his, Australian sport

  John Howard

  Sports, Business, Character

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• Damn description, it is always disgusting.

  Lord Byron

  Statistics, Damn, Disgusting

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2596, Delphi Classics

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• I'd like to be seen as an average Australian bloke. I can't think of... I can't think of a nobler description of anybody than to be called an average Australian bloke.

  John Howard

  Thinking, Average, Australia Day

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• Evidently one cannot look for long at the Last Supper without ceasing to study it as a composition, and beginning to speak of it as a drama. It is the most literary of all great pictures, one of the few of which the effect may largely be conveyed - can even be enhanced - by description.

  Kenneth Clark

  Drama, Long, May

  Kenneth Clark (1988). “Leonardo da Vinci”, Viking Pr

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

  Carlos Castaneda

  Reality, World, Knows

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• When I write my scripts, there's a point at which if I'm not starting to see them visually, I feel like I'm kind of cheating. So my scripts are laden with a lot of visual description, which makes them not so much fun to read - I kind of weigh them down.

  Todd Haynes

  Cheating, Fun, Writing

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I used to be married to a pastor, and I had a church for two years. Pastors are just men, too, with a different job description than others. We're all called to bear one another's burdens. We're all called to pray for the sick. They do it on a larger scale, but they're just a man. A lot of women don't think that. Trust me. I know.

  Niecy Nash

  Jobs, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• One cannot build a future based on the description of a criminal past.

  Max Gallo

  Past, Criminals

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• Keep any description of trouble or sickness or error minimal, for there is something inside which is listening, and it says, 'Oh! You like this! I will make you a lot more of it.'

  Ervin Seale

  Errors, Listening, Sickness

  ERVIN SEALE (1971). “TAKE OFF FROM WITHIN”

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• Unless there is a strong sense of place there is no travel writing, but it need not come from topographical description; dialogue can also convey a sense of place. Even so, I insist, the traveler invents the place. Feeling compelled to comment on my travel books, people say to me, "I went there"---China, India, the Pacific, Albania-- "and it wasn't like that." I say, "Because I am not you.

  Paul Theroux

  Strong, Book, Writing

  Paul Theroux (2001). “The Best American Travel Writing 2001”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Rumi

  Lost, Found

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