Explanation Quotes - Page 38

• When you're all alone, love one another.

  Todd Rundgren

  Love One Another, One Love, All Alone

  Song: Love Is The Answer

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• Words are useless, especially sentences.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Useless, Sentences

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

  Sammy Hagar

  Looking Back

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• Yesterday, today was tomorrow. And tomorrow, today will be yesterday.

  George Harrison

  Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

  Song: Ding Dong, Ding Dong, 1974

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

  Frank Zappa

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• You were Marlon Brando, I was Steve McQueen, you were K.Y. Jelly, I was Vaseline.

  Leonard Cohen

  Vaseline, Jelly, Brando

  Song: Is This What You Wanted, Album: New Skin For The Old Ceremony, 1974

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• Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

  Kary Mullis

  Successful, Fabric, Fit

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• The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it.

  Eugene Wigner

  Ontology, Logic, Mysterious

  Eugene Paul Wigner, Jagdish Mehra, Arthur S. Wightman (1997). “Philosophical Reflections and Syntheses”, p.535, Springer Science & Business Media

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• I think the traditional explanation is that demons just find someone, they pick on them and try to break down their spirit so they can... take control of their bodies. Why exactly? I don't know.

  Oren Peli

  Thinking, Trying, Body

  "'Paranormal Activity' Director Oren Peli Answers Questions From His Fans". Interview with Adam Rosenberg, www.mtv.com. October 29, 2009.

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• People always want an explanation about everything and I cannot give it to them. Because I don't know myself. 'Why did you do a pair of pants like that?' I have no idea. I'm not going to have a 20-minute political discussion about the necessity for slashed, painted leather jeans. Basically, I don't know more than you.

  Hedi Slimane

  Jeans, Ideas, People

  "Hedi Slimane: putting the flounce into fashion" by Viv Groskop, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2012.

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• Fact explains nothing. On the contrary, it is fact that requires explanation.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Inspiring, Facts, Contrary

  Marilynne Robinson (2015). “Housekeeping”, p.142, Faber & Faber

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• The way we gain wisdom in meditation is not by explanation. If you go into the planes of light, you will come out of the meditation knowing things ... things that are inexpressible.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wisdom, Buddhism, Light

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• A cardinal rule of writing is never interrupt yourself to explain something. If you must bring up an obscure topic, drop informative hints about it as you go along so that you don't end up with the entire explanation all in one place. This keeps you from skidding to a stop and sounding teacherish. Otherwise it's better to omit the obscure topic altogether, or as mothers might put it: if you can't say it interestingly, don't say it at all.

  Florence King

  Mother, Writing, Topics

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• I am not denying anything I did not say.

  Brian Mulroney

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• I hate it when I'm reading a comic, and the dialogue looks like stickers stuck on top to explain what's going on. For me the best is when your eye goes in a certain point and moves through the composition and then springs out on the dialogue, or gets confused in the image and then goes to the dialogue for an explanation.

  Denise Mina

  Hate, Confused, Spring

  "‘Dragon Tattoo’: Denise Mina on Larsson, feminist crime fiction". Interview with Noelene Clark, herocomplex.latimes.com. December 13, 2012.

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• So who is better off, those who share love long enough to see which parts inevitably fade or those who lose their love when it is still pristine? I think each is lonely in a different place, though if you lose your love while it is still perfect you at least have a clear explanation for your grief, while if it gradually crumbles in your hands you do not.

  Jonathan Hull

  Lonely, Grief, Thinking

  Jonathan Hull (2001). “Losing Julia”, Island Books

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• Absurd, irreducible; nothing — not even a profound and secret delirium of nature — could explain it. Obviously I did not know everything, I had not seen the seeds sprout, or the tree grow. But faced with this great wrinkled paw, neither ignorance nor knowledge was important: the world of explanations and reasons is not the world of existence. A circle is not absurd, it is clearly explained by the rotation of a straight segment around one of its extremities. But neither does a circle exist. This root, on the other hand, existed in such a way that I could not explain it.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Ignorance, Hands, Circles

  "Nausea". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1938.

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• I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories at that time, but very infrequently. I quit my job just to quit. I didn’t quit my job to write fiction. I just didn’t want to work anymore

  Don DeLillo

  Jobs, Writing, Fiction

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.78, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Apologetic explanations do not develop unless there is a reality that has to be explained and defended. Jesus was undeniably a figure of history.

  John Shelby Spong

  Jesus, Reality, Apologetic

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• The truth is that when it comes to suffering, if we do not go to our graves in confusion, we will not go to our graves trusting. Explanations are a substitute for trust.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Confusion, Suffering, Truth Is

  "Where Is God in Our Suffering? Tullian Tchividjian's 'Glorious Ruin' Offers New Perspective". Interview with Stoyan Zaimov, www.christianpost.com. October 30, 2012.

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• If there's a God, and we have all this evidence that there's evolution, but He created the world only 6,000 years ago - what is the best and most logical explanation to reconcile those two things? I came up with - He came up with it, of course - that all things are fakeable.

  David Javerbaum

  Years, Two, World

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• We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and the propensities of quadrupeds. There can be but one explanation of this fact. We are passing from the animal into a higher form, and the drama of this planet is in its second act.

  William Winwood Reade

  Drama, Animal, Two

  William Winwood Reade (1892). “The Martyrdom of Man”

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• What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of the rules and no involvement in the decision-making.

  Laurence Steinberg

  Father, Decision, Rebel

  Laurence Steinberg (2011). “You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• The areas in which I teach are working-class history and African-American Studies and at its best the critical study of whiteness often grows out of those areas. The critical examination of whiteness, academic and not, simply involves the effort to break through the illusion that whiteness is natural, biological, normal, and not crying out for explanation.

  David Roediger

  Break Through, Class, Effort

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Having a magical element in a realistic setting without explanation seems to me to be the hallmark of fairy tales, which present us with a kind of metaphorical look at some aspect of our lives.

  Laurie Foos

  Looks, Elements, Fairy Tale

  Source: therumpus.net

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