“The online musical universe has become Balkanized, with many sites focusing on minute niches. That works well for reaching very specific demographics, which is wonderful for advertising, but it flies in the face of the common wisdom that people's tastes have become more diverse as music of any description has become a mouse-click away.” PeopleWellsWisdomFacesUniverseCommonWonderfulMinutesTasteMusicalAdvertisingReachingDescriptionOnlineDiverseSiteMiceNicheClicksDemographics Author:Michael Azerrad
“One of the most important things about the geology on the moon is your descriptions of what you see, comparing them to things that you've seen on Earth so that the geologists and the scientists on the ground would know what you're talking about; and then take pictures of them.” KnowsImportantEarthTalkingMoonScientistImportant ThingsCompareDescriptionGeologyGeologist Author:Gene Cernan
“Politicians, it's in their job description to just lie, every day.” JobsLyingPoliticianDescription Author:Rob Delaney
“I just never did buy this idea that you have to live in Los Angeles to be an actor. I didn't see that as a requirement in my job description.” IdeasJobsActorsDescriptionLos AngelesRequirements Author:Jeff Daniels
“London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters of the history of smells, the history of silence, and the history of light. I have described the book as a labyrinth, and in that sense in complements my description of London itself.” BookLightSilenceSmellLondonImpressionDescriptionSensationsChaptersGalleryLabyrinthComplementThematic Author:Peter Ackroyd
“One of the things I like about performing on the stage is that it is a kind of meditative experience. Time does stand still. You have no concept or feeling of the passing of two or three hours' time. It's all kind of one present moment, which is a kind of a description of meditation.” KindDoeStillsTwoMomentsFeelingsThreeHoursMeditationStageConceptsPassingPassingsAll KindsPerformingDescriptionPresent Moment Author:Michael Emerson
“[M]ilitary metaphors have more and more come to infuse all aspects of the description of the medical situation. Disease is seen as an invasion of alien organisms, to which the body responds by its own military operations, such as the mobilizing of immunological "defenses", and medicine is "aggressive" as in the language of most chemotherapies.” BodyLanguageSituationMilitaryHealthDiseaseAspectMedicineMetaphorDefenseMedicalAliensOperationsDescriptionAggressiveOrganismsInvasionChemotherapyMilitary Operations Author:Susan Sontag
“"Sinner" is a present-tense description of everyone, including those who have put their faith in Christ. Of course, those who have called Jesus "Lord" are justified, meaning that they are no longer guilty. Also, they have been given the Spirit, which makes them slaves to Christ rather than to sin. But we all are sinners. Perfection awaits eternity.” Has BeensSpiritCoursesJesusGivenChristSinLordPerfectionEternitySlaveIncludingGuiltyDescriptionSinnerRighteousnessJustifiedTenseSelf RighteousSelf RighteousnessPresent Tense Author:Edward T Welch
“Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description.” PeopleLooksTelevisionSceneDetailsSubtleDescriptionConcreteTelephonesUnlikelyTelescopes Author:Alexander Kluge