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When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know that if there's… — Maurice Sendak
Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles. — George Bernard Shaw
Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way. — Florence Scovel Shinn
Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it. — Shel Silverstein
When you explain to people what you're trying to do, as opposed to just making demands or delegating tasks, you can build instant trust, even… — Simon Sinek
Directions are instructions given to explain how. Direction is a vision offered to explain why. — Simon Sinek
We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our… — Abdolkarim Soroush
It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is one that serves a productive, civilized, but always… — Sonia Sotomayor
If you tell God no because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when… — Charles Stanley
When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the… — Edward Steichen
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable. — John Steinbeck
I can't explain chemistry. I really can't. I haven't got a clue what it's all about. It just happens. It's like falling in love. You… — Elaine Stritch
I don't have a great talent for explaining myself in acting because I can't explain it. — Elaine Stritch
I always say, 'If you can't give a reason for the banana peel being in the alley, then don't have the comic slide over it.'… — Elaine Stritch
Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it. — Rabindranath Tagore
Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a… — Lewis Thomas
There are those who think that the private lives of candidates are none of our business. But when those candidates ask us for our attention… — Marlo Thomas
The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have… — Hunter S. Thompson
I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came. — Gene Tierney
The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it. — Mark Twain

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