Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant… — John Green Copy Share Image
I tell my students that when you write, you should pretend you’re writing the best letter you ever wrote to the smartest… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The strange and wonderful Book of Job treats of the same subject as we are discussing; its contents are a fiction, conceived… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
“Never explain: Your friends don't need it and your enemies won't believe it.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have everything. A family, a great job, a lot of people who look up to you. You've got a place to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of… — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
Evolution as described by Charles Darwin is an scientific theory, abundantly reconfirmed, explaining physical phenomena by physical causes. Intelligent Design is a… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things. — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
Any attempt to dismiss a phenomenon that is not understood merely by explaining it as hallucination becomes irrelevant when a coherent scientific… — Amit Goswami Copy Share Image
Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I was gushing and I knew it. I surprised myself with my eagerness to please, felt myself saying too much, explaining too… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Words are for explaining the mistakes we might have made, names are for calling when there is nothing left to say. — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Criticism will need an injection of humility that is, a recognition of its role as ancillary to the arts, needed only occasionally… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
There are a lot of things that I really question - the legality of the drone strikes, these NSA revelations. Jimmy Carter… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
I don't want to spend my life explaining myself. You either get it, or you don't. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
[from The One and Only Official Mr. Gum Official Glossary That Tells You What Words Mean by Explaining Them Using Other Words]… — Andy Stanton Copy Share Image
Man is the only mammal whose normal method of locomotion is to walk on two legs. A pattern of mammal behavior that… — Elaine Morgan Copy Share Image
Here we have perhaps in Mike Pence someone uniquely capable of explaining [Donald] Trump and being Trump and explaining for people who… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
No one has more than scratched the surface when it comes to understanding and explaining the miracle of the market. — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
...for human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
If [Pope's Francis] media-generated popularity, fragile as that may turn out to be when the world discovers that the pope is really… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
This time I m not going to tell you a story. I'll just say that insanity is the inability to communicate your… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image