I want to describe myself, not be described by others.
God thus excludes the world; he is only its cause; in no sense is he effect, of himself or anything else. Pantheism (better, " pandeism ," for again it is not really the theos that is described) means that God is the integral totality of ordinary cause-effects, and that there, is no super-cause independent of ordinary causes and effects.
I'd have described myself as a Tolkien reader before this, but now I'd describe myself as a Tolkien geek.
I don't like people to feel completely described by the clothes they wear of mine. I want them to feel that they're describing themselves.
I have seldom been described as shy.
Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent!
This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from posterity.
A casino in South Dakota was robbed by a man dressed as a mummy. The police described the suspect as anywhere between 25 and 8,000 years old.
Shaykh Bin Bayyah described his purpose. We must declare war on war so the outcome will be peace upon peace.
The last person in the UK who described his product as being crap in public was one Gerald Ratner - and he was gone immediately.
The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.
The humiliation I go throughwhen I think of my pastcan only be described as grace. We are created by being destroyed.
I try not to focus on politics too much - I would never be described as a hugely political woman - but the fact of the matter is, just me being a female, immigrant, stand-up comedian, single-mother. . . that is political. We still live in a world where a woman with a voice is a political gesture.
My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.
A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
Let me state here and now that the black woman in America can justly be described as a 'slave of a slave.
Certain gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks.
I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor
Once or twice I`ve been described as a light comedian. I consider this the most accurate description of my abilities I`ve ever seen.