473 Quotes About Description

[My father] had a name for the bottom of the sky--'the hem of heaven.

Newly Found Sugary Spill: Tastes Like Dried Spit or Old Soda

To write, for example, a crime that is horrible but which somehow 'resembles' the butterfly, which would be light and fine like the butterfly. I could also describe the butterfly, but bearing in mind the horrible scene of a crime, so that the butterfly would become something frightful.

...the nest is agiggle with excitement.

I steal," Winkle said, with a smile that said I’m joking and a glint in his eye that said I’m not.

The color palette is confined to that of a Gustave Dore' engraving, greys and blacks, and subtle shadings of these rendered in harrowing crosshatches and highlighted with sudden glaring areas of nothingness, like splotches of vitiligo sent to haunt the dead with memories of what real light did to the eyes.

The tumultuous noise resolved itself now into the disorderly mingling of many voices, the gride of many wheels, the creaking of wagons, and the staccato of hoofs.

He had a W.C. Fields twang and a nose like a prize strawberry.

Multiple descriptions are better than one.