Describing Morris as a teenager, Mark Singer wrote that he " read with a passion the forty-odd Oz books, watched a lot of television, and on a regular basis went with a doting but not quite right maiden aunt (" I guess you'd have to say that Aunt Roz was somewhat demented ") to Saturday matinées, where he saw such films as This Island Earth and Creature from the Black Lagoon — horror movies that, viewed again 30 years later, still seem scary to him.

Describing the experience in her memoir, Riefenstahl wrote: " I had an almost apocalyptic vision that I was never able to forget.

Describing his actions, Schmidt said, " I wasn't put in charge of these units – I took charge of them!

Describing Polanski immediately after Tate's death, Farrow testified, " Of this I can be sure — of his frame of mind when we were there, of what we talked about, of his utter sense of loss, of despair and bewilderment and shock and love — a love that he had lost.

Describing Republican candidates for president Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich on a panel on the Colbert Report, Cassidy stated, " I believe the both of them are the most embarrassing, sad, pathetic ...

Describing the intensity of a January 1987 Big Black performance in Forced Exposure, Lydia Lunch remarked that " I was pulverized into near oblivion as wall after wall of frustration, heartache, hatred, death, disease, dis-use, disgust, mistrust, & maelstrom stormed the stage waging war with military precision insistently invading every open orifice with the strength of ten thousand bulls ".

Describing his technique to Robert Frost, Clarke said " I load myself down with chains and try to wriggle free.

Describing his approach to training, Cecil himself said: " I do everything by instinct really, not by the book.

Describing his confirmation, when he as 12 year old, Padre Pio said that he " wept with consolation " whenever he thought of that day because " I remember what the Most Holy Spirit caused me to feel that day, a day unique and unforgettable in all my life!

Describing his thoughts upon being informed by John Abizaid a few weeks after the leak that he and his report would be investigated, Taguba said " I ’ d been in the Army thirty-two years by then, and it was the first time that I thought I was in the Mafia.

Describing the technical details of his work he says: " I use an Apple Mac, Schminke watercolours, Caran d ’ Ache pencil crayons ( with electric sharpener ), Saunders Waterford paper 190gm3, black kandahar and coloured inks with a dip pen, toothbrush, porcupine quills, and my trusty left hand.

Describing the match later, he said " When we hit the 4th I had a chat with Kevin Arnott about whether to try for a fifth or just to take the piss.

Describing how he got his nickname " Head ", Welch stated, " Guys said my head looked like it was too big for my body, and so they started calling me “ Head .” I guess it stuck ”

Describing his early life, Hyneman said " I was a problematic kid, to be sure.

Describing the early abandonment of his acting career, Savage said "... by the time I was, I guess probably nineteen, I had passed on that in favor of doing stuff with my hands – graphic design, assistant animation in New York, and then eventually working in theater in San Francisco, and film special effects.

Describing the experience, Kalou said :" This was the dream moment of my life and I did not want to wake up and find that it was not real.

Describing the fossils was a vast task, pursued by Walcott until his death in 1927.

Describing his new bishopric, Gregory lamented how it was nothing more than an " utterly dreadful, pokey little hole ; a paltry horse-stop on the main road ... devoid of water, vegetation, or the company of gentlemen ... this was my Church of Sasima!

Describing an individual encounter with Polgár, former U. S. Champion Joel Benjamin said, " It was all-out war for five hours.

Describing the Bible as " fabulous mythology ", Paine questions whether or not it was revealed to its writers and doubts that the original writers can ever be known ( he dismisses the idea that Moses wrote the Pentateuch, for example ).

* ( Describing Basil Hallward ) Rugged and straightforward as he was, there was something in his nature that was purely feminine in its tenderness.

Describing himself as a " juvenile delinquent ", he noted that his father was a " bully " who would sternly punish him for his misbehaviour.

Describing their victory, the new council leader Richard Austin said: " We knew that the mood of the people of Boston was very black and they really do want something to happen to Boston that isn't happening at the moment.

Describing the causes of the Intifada, Benny Morris refers to the " all-pervading element of humiliation ", caused by the protracted occupation which he says was " always a brutal and mortifying experience for the occupied " and was " founded on brute force, repression and fear, collaboration and treachery, beatings and torture chambers, and daily intimidation, humiliation, and manipulation "

Describing the character, Proinsias Mac Cana writes: " Cigfa strikes one as a slight though effective vignette of a contemporary bourgeois snob while William John Gruffydd hypothesises that the character was a later addition to the tale.

Describing French Conservatives of the 1870s, the writer opined that " their mistake was, not in appealing to the country, but in appealing to it in behalf of a Monarchy which had yet to be defined, instead of a Republic which existed ; for in the latter case they would have had the whole of that silent majority with them.

Describing itself as the friend of " The Honest Financier and the Respectable Broker ", it was a four-page journal.

Describing the tour, Stevens remarked that seeing a crowd of over 13, 000 fans each night coming to see them was " such an unbelievable feeling ", and the other members of the group shared an " adrenaline rush " as well as a wave of emotion before going on stage.

Describing the post-war times, Pete Townshend wrote in his autobiography, " Until he was expelled, Roger had been a good pupil.

Describing the unique aesthetics of Pialat's work, film critic Kent Jones wrote: " Even more than Jean Eustache [...] Pialat was an irascibly private artist, charting a twisted, crook-backed path with each new movie, almost always emerging with works in which the mind-bending vitality of immediate experience trumps all belief systems, allegiances, plans.

Describing the incident to the House of Commons Robinson was moved to tears, showing, as the biographer P J Jupp put it, " a propensity under stress which was to earn him the first of several nicknames, in this case the Blubberer ".

Describing the work as " 57 seconds of growth and fire, and three seconds of vomit ", Lynch played the film on a loop at the Academy's annual end-of-year exhibit, where it shared joint first prize with a painting by Noel Mahaffey.

Describing his intention, Capa said ' We named this unknown generation, The Generation X, and even in our first enthusiasm we realised that we had something far bigger than our talents and pockets could cope with '.

Describing Baba as " The Messiah ," the article also claims he listed miracles he had performed, and said that a person who becomes one with the truth can accomplish anything, but that it is a weakness to perform miracles only to show spiritual power.

Describing such a transformation for an object tends to make more sense in terms of rotation about an axis through the center of that object, combined with a translation, rather than by just a rotation with respect to some distant point.

Describing this groundbreaking book many years later, Childe would state that it " aimed at distilling from archaeological remains a preliterate substitute for the conventional politico-military history with cultures, instead of statesmen, as actors, and migrations in place of battles.

Describing their fifth studio album, 2002's Volcano, frontman Satyr stated in a press release and biography on their homepage that " the music is rock based but more extreme ; it is black metal pushing the boundaries that began with bands like Venom and Bathory.

Describing the music as ' progressive, symphonic pop ' he reported that the band, also including multi-instrumentalists Mike Reina and guitarist Anthony Pirog, would record with Roy Thomas Baker in Washington, D. C. in early 2010.

Describing the cove in 1779, Adam Walker said, " This beautiful rock is like the age-tinted wall of a prodigious castle ; the stone is very white, and from the ledges hang various shrubs and vegetables, which with the tints given it by the bog water.

Describing the PIJ suicide bombings, the judge said: " Anyone with even the slightest bit of human compassion would be sickened.

Describing meeting with Churchill, where Churchill vehemently states that the U. K. is in no way bound to the principles of the Atlantic Charter.

Describing this situation after many decades, Ambartsumian said, " If an astronomer publishes an article with a mathematical content in a physics journal, then the most likely thing that will happen to it is oblivion.

Describing Bradley, school executive director Ken Allen said, " Shawn has a great presence — due to his size — and has immediate credibility with the kids.

Describing the conception of Earth-4, Grant Morrison alluded that its interpretation of Vic Sage would resemble the classic Charlton incarnation, with tones borrowed from Rorschach and Watchmen.

Describing the album's musical style, The Quietus opined, " It had to sound passé, it had to be overdone ; if you're trying to bulldoze the shiny edifice of western pop culture, you can't do it tastefully or with subtlety, can you?