Yes, I know,’ she said in answer to the unasked, for there was no time for explanations. ‘Yes. My face is spoilt.’… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
There are good reasons why natural selection has become widely accepted as an explanation of evolutionary development. When applied to mammals and… — John Tyler Bonner Copy Share Image
It has been a long time since I believed in Reality. I prefer the loveliness and the terror of my subjective experiences… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It's very common to say that Star Wars in the late '70s, that was kind of perfect for Cold War culture and… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
Anyone can say 'no'. It is the first word a child learns and often the first word he speaks. It is a… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
Our bodies are just temporary vessels for our souls, which will go on forever. You really are an extension of the power… — RuPaul Copy Share Image
In the rare cases where it occurs, a failure to increase one's visible consumption when the means for an increase are at… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
The primary problem is not to provide the public with the knowledge of how far it is to the nearest star and… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner have agreed to play a round of golf together. Imagine the two of them at… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
The feature of living matter that most demands explanation is that it is almost unimaginably complicated in directions that convey a powerful… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Woman cries for nothing, is sad for no apparent reason and suffers without anyone knowing why. And all this goes away as… — Augusto Branco Copy Share Image
There is no explanation in the Big Bang theory for the seemingly fortuitous fact that the density of matter has just the… — Robert Jastrow Copy Share Image
“The explanation has been written already in the three words that were many enough, and plain enough, for my confession. I loved… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves. That is why we have teaching. But the… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
In the final analysis, all explanations of meaning, various as they are, serve to indicate how something is 'appropriate' in and to… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
I live my life as I deem appropriate and fitting; I offer no apologies, no explanations. — Aaron Burr Copy Share Image
Becoming a father is incredible. There is no explanation for the feeling. — Ruben Neves Copy Share Image
I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected —… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
