Descriptiveness Quotes & Sayings

I just sat all night looking at him, saying, 'Wow, it's incredible.' When Yoko woke up, I told her, 'He's fine,' and we cried. — John Lennon

A detective novel should contain no long descriptive passages, no literary dallying with side-issues, no subtly worked-out character analyses, no 'atmospheric' preoccupations. Such matters have no vital place in a record of crime and deduction. They hold up the action and introduce issues irrelevant to the main purpose, which is to state a problem, analyze it, and bring it to a successful conclusion. To be sure, there must be a sufficient descriptiveness and character delineation to give the novel verisimilitude. — S. S. Van Dine

Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum. — Frederick Douglass

Because the Muse persists. — Ray Bradbury

Here's what happens - you create something in the moment that you feel will be good, and then ... people's reactions to it or people referencing it years later, it's a compliment. — Michael Patrick King

Even some of the most jaded D.C. types are still impressed when the leader of the free world enters the room. — Joel C. Rosenberg

A man's errors are what make him amiable. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

How do we accomplish this matter of gathering life together in God? We must begin primarily by refocusing our attention keeping our minds and hearts directed toward God. The essence of the centered life is attention to God in all we think, say and do. It is the growing realization of His presence in our most down-to-earth living. — Sue Monk Kidd