Descriptive Imagery Quotes

#1. Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#2. When he did appear his eyes were as brown as I remembered, pupils flecked with gold like beach pebbles.

Amber Dawn

#3. As a musician, my job is incredibly easy, and it's a good one, but I've got to work at it occasionally.

A.C. Newman

#4. It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.

Mae West

#5. The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.

Carol S. Dweck

#6. The aliens of 'The 5th Wave' are not the aliens we've imagined. Not the aliens we'd like to attack us.

Rick Yancey

#7. This is very true: For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers.

Charles II Of England

#8. I hate phones," he grumbled into her neck. "Seriously, I wanna go back in time and murder Alexander Graham Bell." He sat up with a groan. "Or was it Edison who invented the phone? I can never remember."
She had to laugh. "I'm pretty sure it was Bell.

Elle Kennedy

#9. No city, no town, no community of more than one thousand people or two
hundred buildings to the square mile, shall be built or permitted to exist
anywhere in the United States of America.

Leigh Brackett

#10. Traders can cause short-term volatility. In the long run, the market must revert to a sensible price/earnings multiple.

Ben Stein

#11. Morning came in through the blinds cutting everything into ribbons.

Amber Dawn

#12. It was as hot as ever, even the turn of the moon bringing no relief, and the cries of cicadas fell like showers around me.

Lian Hearn

#13. This I know of life's difficult times: there is always a time for them to begin and a time for them to end, and the man who knows this knows he must thank God for each day he has suffered because that is always one day closer to the sun, the real sun.

Andre Dubus III

#14. What bends, can break.

Marty Rubin

#15. Then Royce's parry came a beat too late. The pale sword bit through the ringmail beneath his arm. The young Lord cried out in pain. Blood welled between the rings. It seemed red as fire where they touched the snow.

George R R Martin

#16. Usually Robert looked slightly uneasy whenever Alec expressed affection to Magnus. This time, however, he was staring fixedly at the warlock baby and did not even seem to hear.

Cassandra Clare

#17. And what people see the most is his silence, because some kinds of silence is actually visible.

Nora Raleigh Baskin

#18. The pale sword came shivering through the air

George R R Martin

#19. The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say; Stops every fool that passes by, And frights the school-boy from his play.

Mary Wortley Montagu