Picturesque Description Quotes

#1. We admire Chaucer for his sturdy English wit ... But though it is full of good sense and humanity, it is not transcendent poetry.For picturesque description of persons it is, perhaps, without a parallel in English poetry; yet it is essentially humorous, as the loftiest genius never is.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships..

Ansel Adams

#3. Listen for the inner call and follow it wherever it may lead.

Tonya Sheridan

#4. But believe me, just because the human mind can't imagine something happening ... doesn't mean it won't.

Dan Brown

#5. Stu stood nearby also, his camera flash spastic and incessant, like the light of a caffeinated firefly.

Tamara Ward

#6. In another country where the buildings don't stop rising until they pinthe clouds to the sky.

Sally Gardner

#7. I haven't seen 'The Exorcist,' but I've seen a lot of pictures of the girl in it. So now I don't actually want to see it. She scares me so much. I don't know what it is, but even though it's quite old now, it still has the best and scariest make-up I've ever seen in my life.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

#8. The day was hot, the sun high, and the silence was so think you'd have thought the sky didn't have any air in it.

Alice Blanchard

#9. There are many types of pain. The only one that aspirin won't help is a hurting heart. That's why there is alcohol.

Brian MacLearn

#10. She was known for her volcanic passion for Romantic music that erupted regularly during her lessons, then cooled and settled in between.

Tori De Clare

#11. The "times," "the age" what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?

Ralph Waldo Emerson