Explaining Quotes

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In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who… — Adele
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. — Ambrose Bierce
I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my… — David Bowie
If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do. — Kobe Bryant
The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders. — Leo Burnett
God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining. — Douglas Adams
The world will very soon be divided, unless I am mistaken, into those who still go on explaining our success, and those somewhat more intelligent… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Liebig was not a teacher in the ordinary sense of the word. Scientifically productive himself in an unusual degree, and rich in chemical ideas, he… — Hermann Kolbe
Explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he helped arrange a private interview for them with… — Richard V. Allen
In rare moments of deep play, we can lay aside our sense of self, shed time's continuum, ignore pain, and sit quietly in the absolute… — Diane Ackerman
Many years ago I remember a famous actress explaining to me with perfect seriousness that before making an entrance she always stood aside to allow… — Noel Coward
These principles have given me a way of explaining naturally the union or rather the mutual agreement [conformitÃ©] of the soul and the organic body.… — Gottfried Leibniz
Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that… — Stephen Jay Gould
The best and safest way of philosophising seems to be, first to enquire diligently into the properties of things, and to establish those properties by… — Isaac Newton
Gun control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a… — L. Neil Smith
The Americans, on the contrary, are fond of explaining almost all the actions of their lives by the principle of interest rightly understood; they show… — Alexis de Tocqueville
I do not think a philosopher who would apply himself so earnestly to the explaining the ultimate principles of the soul, would show himself a… — David Hume
The genius of a man capable of explaining religion seems to me to be of a higher order than that of a founder of religion.… — Charles-Francois Dupuis
Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a… — Heinrich Himmler
As I may or may not say to the Lord on Judgment Day, "You ask a lot of questions for someone who has so much… — Robert Breault

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