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.

Wendell Berry

Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable.

James Cook

There are alternate explanations for everything.

Don DeLillo

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

Robert Fulghum

You can't always explain everything you do to everybody, you know.

Sammy Hagar

Yes, I'm looking at you, looking at me, looking at you, looking at me, looking back at you.

Meat Loaf

There's no explanation for success. Success just comes out of life.

Ernest Hemingway

There isnt always an explanation for everything.

Frank Zappa

You are what you is, you is what you am, you ain't what you're not. So see what you got?

Jethro Tull

He's watching me watching you watching him watching me watching him watching.