Reading literature remains a civilising activity, no matter that it’s literature in which people do and say abominable things and the author curses like the very devil. What’s at issue is how we describe the way the civilising works.
Sarcasm is weird. Even not in acting, in life I feel like ‘sarcastic’ is a word that people use to describe me sometimes so when I meet someone, it’s almost like they feel like they have to also be sarcastic, but it can sometimes just come off as mean if it’s not used in the right way.
I loved Elijah Muhammad with a love that I can’t adequately describe.
I talk a lot about Jackie MacMullan. Think about the trust and the equity Jackie has built with people in this game. When you watch her work, there is such a high level of respect given. It’s hard to describe it, but you can see it when players engage with her.
The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
I’ve always been a little ‘preppy street.’ That’s how I would describe it. I’m not all the way into street wear, but I am not all the way into a suit and tie either, so I try to combine that look.
I hate bullies. I hate them. I’m not good enough with words to describe how much I hate them.
I believe that both Obama and Trump would describe themselves as outsiders.
Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as ‘legs’ therefore it, erm, runs.
If I had one word to describe how I feel at never having to work with co-host Adam Savage again it’d be relief.
I am, by nature, not optimistic: my fellow drag queens would probably describe me as a pessimist.
I would definitely describe myself as a workaholic.
Honestly, if anyone reads my work, they’re doing me a favor, so they get to use whatever words they want to describe it. I can’t control that, nor if they like the work, so best not to even try.
It’s a wonderful narrative device to bring someone from the outside and look through his eyes if you want to describe the absurdity and preposterous reality that is accepted amongst the ones who are inside.
Robert Preston in ‘The Last Starfighter’ had an aura. It was almost a surreal experience meeting him. He exuded charm, warmth and that movie star magnetism that is impossible to describe.
Ironically, my tastes aren’t that experimental, and I wouldn’t describe my music on the surface as being overtly experimental, either.
Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.
It’s hard to describe why one room and not another feels right for writing. Of course you have to train yourself to be able to write anywhere, but it’s nice to feel that each book has a place that belongs to it, where it’s home.
The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
I describe my plots as follows; A character is walking down the street when all of a sudden a piano falls on them. They spend the rest of the story digging out from under that piano. How they dig, how long and how well, this all depends entirely on the character.
When we automated away the elevator operator function, who knew that all the descendants of those operators would become social media marketers, machine learning engineers, and all these other jobs that we didn’t even have a language to describe back then.
In some ways we describe ‘Boxtrolls’ as ‘Oliver Twist’ if Terry Gilliam had made it. I think he’s an extraordinary artist, and animator.
I’m not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I’m such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.
I believe that if you want gender, then you can have it. If you want to label yourself, then sure. If you want to use history to describe who you are, then there is nothing wrong with that. But don’t limit me on the way that you limit yourself.
The worst question is, ‘Where do you see yourself in five years?’ I don’t know. Variety is the spice of life. That’s the best way to describe it.
I think my sound is very loud. I want other people to describe it as a form of therapy – therapeutic music, a form of release to them.
Aggressive, tough and defiant may describe me, but that leaves the impression I’m mean and I’m not. People expect me to have fangs.
The easiest way I can describe what makes a pop song a pop song is that it’s a song you want to hear over and over.
I would describe my style of dress as careful.
‘Tough’ is one of the last adjectives I would use to describe myself.
It’s very hard to describe your own style. And I’m young, so I’m still experimenting. But I think it’s quite British and very much about individuality.
I don’t know if I would describe myself as a political artist.
I never analyzed whether I had a style or whether I didn’t. I wouldn’t be able to describe my style or even tell if I have one or not.
The work of deciding cases goes on every day in hundreds of courts throughout the land. Any judge, one might suppose, would find it easy to describe the process which he had followed a thousand times and more. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
You know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person. And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’ I said, ‘Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I’m a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.’
When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need.
The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
I would describe my music as very honest. I just rap about myself, and not in a narcissistic way. I feel like I have a story to tell.
How do you describe the pride you have for the club you represent, for the people you represent?
I always describe my career as something where nothing ever popped overnight.
Swavey is a musical genre that I came up with to describe artists who are too talented to stay in a box with their music.
I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.
I don’t quite know what a record is anymore. I don’t quite know how to describe it. Don’t know how to define it yet, so I’m just letting it gestate, and grow and see if maybe I’ll get a better sense of what a record is.
If I tried to describe my personality, I’d start to gush about living by the ocean half my life and being brought up on ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and believing in magic for years and years.
There is literally nothing I can describe that’s better than scoring at Celtic Park.
I wouldn’t describe myself as a master of anything.
It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.
I would describe my style as refreshing.
What hadn’t been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself embodies inductive assumptions, even as a statement about the past.
Textbooks describe economics as the study of the allocation of scarce resources. That definition may be the ‘what,’ but it certainly is not the ‘why.’
You can’t really describe how difficult it is to deal with. It is any athlete’s worst nightmare to be accused of cheating by taking drugs. It really is very difficult to put into words how it makes you feel.
We have this condition where digital technology is becoming increasingly smaller and distributed in the environment. In a certain sense, this is the first time ever we can describe a city in real time.
Raising a daughter is hard work. There’s no other way to describe it for me.
Vince McMahon is not a human being. They don’t make people like Vince. Vince is Vince. I can’t even describe to you what it’s like being in a room with Vince McMahon. He is above man. That’s the best way I can put it. Like-minded people take over the world, so I’ve always had a great rapport with him.
When you’ve played reserve team football in front of 50 people, then you play at White Hart Lane with five or six of the same lads – it’s hard to describe what that feels like.
Unprecedented’ is the term I’ve heard most commonly to describe the COVID-19 pandemic. As for me, I would describe it as a storm at sea. Lengthy and ferocious. Uncontrollable. Frightening. All-pervading.
If I have a goal, then it is to escape from this literalism. I’ll never achieve it; in the same way that I’ll never manage to describe what really dwells within my character, although I keep on trying.
