Unquantifiable Quotes

What is good work? You just know it when you see it. You just can't explain it.

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.

Art is what can't be proven mathematically, right, it's where science ends. It's the part that makes you feel good, but you don't know why.

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.

I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.

We don’t have any metrics on that.

Protests have a value in society that I don't think you can quantify.

The amount that she loved us was beyond her reach. It could not be quantified or contained. It was the ten thousand named things in the Tao Te Ching’s universe and then ten thousand more. Her love was full-throated and all-encompassing and unadorned. Every day she blew through her entire reserve.

My whole life has always been about looking for that person that money can't buy in that they've got a bee in their bonnet.

Love is an emotion. It can't be seen or touched, and it is experienced differently by everyone, therefore it is difficult to measure.

There is supercomputer somewhere in the Nevada desert whose sole function is to count the number of times that I have said the following, because it is unquantifiable by human minds at this point, but this time it’s really true: I should have stayed home.

What finally is beauty? Certainly nothing that can be calculated or measured. It is always something imponderable, something that lies between things.

Incommensurables cannot be compared.

What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.

Love cannot be defined, caught, cast in stone, or archived. It's something we have no control over. Love is completely analog. Love can never be digital.

Innumerable as the stars of night, Or stars of morning, dewdrops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower.

You never see the stock called Happiness quoted on the exchange.

There are some things that can't be measured.

eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, no rhetoric describe.

There's such a thing, if you're a finance man, as hitting the figures you need to hit. But there's no equivalent in acting. It's a creative field. It's subjective. That's what I love about it.

It's not something you can prove....I know you hate to hear this, but you either have it, or you don't.

All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.... You can describe all the externals of a performance - everything, in fact, but what really constitutes its core. Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is what's left over after you've explained everything else.

What is nonmeasurable and nonpredictable will remain nonmeasurable and nonpredictable ... no matter how much hate mail I get.