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.
Now, looking back on my life in Africa, I feel that it might altogether be described as the existence of a person who had come from a rushed and noisy world, into a still country.
I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger,' and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.
As a kid, I think people would have described me more as a goofball, or being energetic. But I always loved parodies; I loved spoofing things.
I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it.
We are described into corners, and then we must describe ourselves out of corners.
The little depression I experienced during my manic-depression was not like depression as anyone else had ever described it. It was very violent and angry, and I was full of rage. I wasnt lying in bed.
[My mother] told me a little bit about the scene out there and I think, as a small child, I just always felt a connection to that history because my mother had described it to me.
Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price.
When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance, we rarely get a definitive look at just how complicated and sometimes dangerous their everyday lives were. In fact, until the past ten years, many defined the period primarily by its well-known literary, musical, and artistic elements while overlooking the fact there was any political component to it at all.
. . . we are all a volume on the shelf of the. . . library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands.
There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.
Love has been described as a three-ring circus: First comes the engagement ring, then the wedding ring, and after that the suffering.
Jihad is described as a war against Muslims, to establish the religion.
I just wanted to speak to you about something from the Internal Revenue Code. It is the last sentence of section 509A of the code and it reads: 'For purposes of paragraph 3, an organization described in paragraph 2 shall be deemed to include an organization described in section 501C-4, 5, or 6, which would be described in paragraph 2 if it were an organization described in section 501C-3. ' And that's just one sentence out of those fifty-seven feet of books.
I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
There's really barely any sex in [The Westworlds]. But there is a lot of nudity. And it was always described to me as being done in a way that was supposed to be kind of sterile and mannequin-like and dehumanizing.
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.
He who is conversant with the supernal powers will not worship these inferior deities of the wind, waves, tide, and sunshine. Butwe would not disparage the importance of such calculations as we have described. They are truths in physics because they are true in ethics.