Descriptively Quotes & Sayings

I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough. — Jack Nicholson

Few of us ever touch eternity, and if we do, it is not in the ways we expect. — Jordan MacLean

Like a maniac, she'd threatened the director of the NSA with bodily harm - very descriptively - if he didn't help her. — Katie Reus

With fame, money and sex settled, he had to find something else to fight, and like any honorable man he chose to fight his own people. And that was how Byron the sentimental poet of graveyards and lost loves became the Satanic joker all England loved to hate. — John C. Dolan

She would never be caught unprepared again, she swore to herself. She would never trust. Never love. Never put faith in other human beings again. She would learn all she could of the shape and substance of the world, and she would find a way to survive in it. — David Anthony Durham

A good bargaine is a pick-purse.
[A good bargain is a pick-purse.] — George Herbert

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression. — Henri Matisse

Genre is a useful concept only when used not evaluatively but descriptively. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it. — Cardinal Richelieu

Jen put her hands on her hips and pinned Sally with the famous 'you're going to spit it out or I'm going to rip it out of you' look. "You talked?" Jen asked sarcastically. "Sally," she cleared her throat then continued, "you have a mate. A guaranteed husband. A sure thing. Not to mention he's hot, funny, sweet, and he has a dimple. You talked?" She repeated. This time Jen's voice was skeptical. Before Sally could defend herself, however, her door opened slowly, calculatingly.
"I know you weren't describing me Jennifer. So who is this male who has caught your eye so descriptively? Please do tell, so that I can rip him to pieces." Decebel's power filled the room and Sally took an involuntary step away from the very angry Alpha. — Quinn Loftis

If there was an ethos at Squid Frames, it came from the elevation of craft. When a piece of wood was stained and finished particularly well, eyebrows were raised but little was said. The type of things that would score the most admiration were precisely the things that others would not recognize at all, because when the frames were well made, the eye would simply travel to the art. — Samuel Fromartz

Life is a gift from God, an unlimited series of opportunities to find the good in ourselves and others. There is good in everything, if we are willing to see it. — Alan Cohen