Physical Description Quotes

#1. Faith is the physical description of God. That's what He is. It's the only word we have in our language to accurately describe His physical form.

Jim Rowe

#2. 'John Doe' is typically used in a warrant when the accused is known by an alias or by a physical description.

Bill Dedman

#3. The moon features frequently as a simile for beauty (and indeed Budur's name means 'moons'). Beautiful women are conventionally compared to gazelles. It was more common to evoke beauty through metaphor and simile than by close physical description.

Malcolm C. Lyons

#4. To provide background and physical description and all the rest is of course vital to fiction, but vital only insofar as such detail is in the service of a richly imagined story, rather than in the service of good botany or good philosophy or good geography.

Tim O'Brien

#5. Conflict is the microscope of a book. When it's trained on a character, you see what's underneath the narratives of physical description. You see whether someone is strong or weak, principled or apathetic, heroic or villainous.
(J.R. on writing the BDB series)

J.R. Ward

#6. Christianity also stands in opposition to intellectual, as well as physical, health. To doubt becomes sin. 'Faith means not wanting to know what it true' a description that strikes me as stunning and quite exact.

Robert Sheaffer

#7. Sir Arthur Eddington summed up the situation brilliantly in his book The Nature of the Physical World, published in 1929. "No familiar conceptions can be woven around the electron," he said, and our best description of the atom boils down to "something unknown is doing we don't know what".

John Gribbin

#8. If you ask people to remember a painting and a photograph, their description of the photograph is far more accurate than that of the painting. Strangely enough, there is a physical element intertwined with the painting. It shakes loose an emotional element within the viewer.

Luc Tuymans

#9. Extraordinary people are the Green Berets and the Navy Seals and the Olympic athletes - these are the ones who can face these extraordinary physical challenges and be triumphant.

Jonathan Demme

#10. Hindus, if they want unity among different races, must have the courage to trust the minorities.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. Presiding over the entire attack there will be, in du Bois Reymond's words, "a general feeling of disorder," which may be experienced in either physical or emotional terms, and tax or elude the patient's powers of description.

Oliver Sacks

#12. I am ever more intrigued by the correspondence between mathematics and physical facts. The adaptability of mathematics to the description of physical phenomena is uncanny.

Nicolaas Bloembergen

#13. I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

Dalai Lama

#14. We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.

Voltaire

#15. Great leaders are pragmatists who can deal with difficult realities but still have the optimism and courage to act.

Nitin Nohria

#16. I hate to fall back on weird to describe them, but goofy is too weak, and strange sounds too sensible.

Daniel Woodrell

#17. Having a higher purpose is more than just about profits. You actually end up making more profits in the long run because employees really are a lot more engaged and customers see the higher purpose in the company.

Tony Hsieh

#18. The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe.

Karl Pearson

#19. Because I do not wish to know," he says. "I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.

Erin Morgenstern

#20. It had to be the most surreal, embarrassing, awkward moment of his life, standing petrified in his mother's backyard in front of a broken lawn mower, sporting a woody and discussing sex for sale with the landlady.

Linda Kage

#21. Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.

Malcolm Forbes

#22. mendacity." He then introduced his son to the President,

David McCullough