Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ludwig Wittgenstein

We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place.

John Archibald Wheeler

The observer cannot be left out of the description of the observation.

John Fowles

I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description.

Jane Austen

But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

Roland Barthes

A picture is never anything but its own plural description.

Gaston Bachelard

Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.

Gregory Bateson

Multiple descriptions are better than one.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The description is not the described.

Saint Ignatius

The wellbeing of the head resounds throughout the whole body, and as are the Superiors, so, in turn, will their subjects be.

Mahatma Gandhi

No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation.

J. R. Moehringer

You think you choose the subjects of your books. But sometimes, in ways you don't know, the books choose you.

Judd Nelson

Death is not my best subject.

Henry Morton Stanley

Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize it as a conspicuous failure.

Oscar Wilde

She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.

Frank Sinatra

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women

Erica Jong

writers do not choose their subjects; their subjects choose them.

Julie Harris

I liked Live and Let Die, where money was no object.

Hasso Plattner

Business reporting is not dealing with objects, it is dealing with relationships between objects.

Thomas P. Campbell

Museums provide places of relaxation and inspiration. And most importantly, they are a place of authenticity. We live in a world of reproductions - the objects in museums are real. It's a way to get away from the overload of digital technology.

Henry Grunwald

A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean.

Andre Bazin

Every image is to be seen as an object and every object as an image.

Swami Vivekananda

Neither object nor time off, put up with what comes.

Thomas Carlyle

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning.

Roland Barthes

The Text is not a definitive object.

Martin Puryear

I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.