Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man.
Mercy is compassion, kindness, empathy, forgiveness. While grace might be described as blessings and favor from God that we do not necessarily deserve, mercy represents not receiving what we do deserve because of the patience, love, and atonement of the Master.
I think "creativity" is better described as failing repeatedly until you get something right.
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.
Aristotle described the Crow as chaste. In some departments of knowledge, Aristotle was too innocent for his own good.
God is not described in equations.
The method of science depends on our attempts to describe the world with simple theories: theories that are complex may become untestable, even if they happen to be true. Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification-the art of discerning what we may with advantage omit.
. . . 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.
People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too.
A film that can be described in words is not really a film.
I'm always surprised to hear or read my work described, "In angry tones, she says. " No! In truthful tones! Does truth have a tone? I don't know.
. . . The Chinese in the 9th century AD utilized a book entitled The Thousand Golden Prescriptions, which described how rice polish could be used to cure beri~beri, as well as other nutritional approaches to the prevention and treatment of disease. It was not until twelve centuries later that the cure for beri~beri was discovered in the West, and it acknowledged to be a vitamin B-1 deficiency disease.
Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent!
The landscape is best described as 'pedestrian hostile. ' It's pointless to try to take a walk, so I generally just stay in the room and think about shooting myself in the head.
My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.
And the smell of the library was always the same - the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies, creating what the chief librarian had once described as 'the steam of the social soup. '
All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence.
It amuses me when I'm described as 'chic. '