#descriptions

Descriptions of my work depress me. They make me feel pinned down. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#descriptions #down #feel #make #me

I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I'll write descriptions of what scenes should look like and turn it over to the artist. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#balloons #captions #descriptions #fashion #figures

It's easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for me, yes, I am indebted to my travels to India for several of the stories. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#anywhere #basic #descriptions #easy #get

One of the most important things about the geology on the moon is your descriptions of what you see, comparing them to things that you've seen on Earth so that the geologists and the scientists on the ground would know what you're talking about; and then take pictures of them. ↗

— Gene Cernan

#comparing #descriptions #earth #geologists #geology

But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite clear they were talking about death all the time, about people dying all around them, about their own fear of death. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#around #began #clear #death #descriptions

If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'. ↗

— Winona Ryder

#descriptions #few #first #girl #i

The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force. ↗

— Nancy Cartwright

#amended #be true #describe #descriptions #facts

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. ↗

— Louis E. Boone

#could #descriptions #failure #fear #life

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#descriptions #go #i #make #paradise

Even her beauty had sharp edges. Her long ebony hair was cut like a razor blade. Her face was strong and fine.But her eyes. A milky green, they betrayed an air of vulnerability she seemed desperate to hide. ↗

— Laura Oliva

#heroine #romance #beauty