Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anthony de Mello

Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.

Jane Austen

But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

Gregory Bateson

Multiple descriptions are better than one.

Gaston Bachelard

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

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The description is not the described.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

John Fowles

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

John Archibald Wheeler

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

Roland Barthes

A picture is never anything but its own plural description.

Michael Jackson

The distortion of the truth bothers me.

Dhani Harrison

Im still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe.

Dee Dee Ramone

I used to be a hairdresser.

Diego Luna

Definitely directing is the thing I like the most because this is where everything you know can be used. It's the most personal process ever. It's the most demanding one, but again, rewarding.

Dick Cavett

I'm not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn't really bother me.

Dennis Miller

I used to be sceptic, but not anymore, because now I am positive that I'm getting screwed.

Edwin Moses

I used biomechanics to save time when I was competing.

Bernard Ebbers

I used practically all the money I had available.

Beth Broderick

I used to do theater in L.A., but it got to the point where everything was really showcase-y.

Brian Eno

I've never used a PC in my life; I don't like them.