Quotes: Descriptions and Similes Vividly Expressed
(picturesque, poetic, and sometimes, humorous writing)
A written or verbal account, representation, or explanation of someone or something.
A police officer is providing a description of a criminal to a police artist.
descriptive
1. Containing or consisting of description.
2. Serving mainly to label, describe, or classify.
2. Serving mainly to label, describe, or classify.
1. A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as.
2. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds.
2. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds.
vivid
1. Presenting the appearance, freshness, spirit, etc., of life; realistic.
2. Strong, distinct, or clearly perceptible.
3. Forming distinct, lifelike, and striking mental images.
4. Etymology: from Latin vividus, "spirited, animated, lively", from vivus, "alive".
2. Strong, distinct, or clearly perceptible.
3. Forming distinct, lifelike, and striking mental images.
4. Etymology: from Latin vividus, "spirited, animated, lively", from vivus, "alive".
Quotations
A blanket of fog tucks the city in for the night.A night so sharp and still that one could almost hear the stars twinkling.
The wind shepherding woolly flocks of clouds across the sky.
Crocuses catching lazy snowflakes in their cups.
Spring, a time when trees are turning over a new leaf.
People who think time heals all things haven't tried sitting it out in a doctor's waiting room.
As untrustworthy as a new bottle of catsup.
As optimistic as a seed catalogue.
As plain as the no's on a mother's face.
As unimaginative as a mirror.
Outside a suburban house: "Beware of the dog—he makes snap judgments".
As unpredictable as a grapefruit's squirt.
Crows pleading their caws.
Clouds towing their shadows over the pasture.
“Mehr als das Gold hat das Blei in der Welt verändert. Und mehr als das Blei in der Flinte das im Setzkasten.”
More than gold, it's lead that changed the world, and more than the lead in a gun, it was the lead in the typesetter’s (printer's) case.
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