Explaining Quotes

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That was clearly surprising, interesting - a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article about some sort… — Jon Postel
When I'm explaining something to you, if I'm being long-winded, and twisty in a non-productive way, I could make you feel vaguely insulted. And you'd… — George Saunders
I'm tired of explaining to Hollywood that people would laugh at me, because I go around America making them laugh every week. Nobody would be… — Jen Kirkman
A multitude of words doth rather obscure than illustrate, they being a burden to the memory, and the first apt to be forgotten, before we… — John Ray
I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and… — Asa Gray
The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explaining a new class of facts are already contained… — William Whewell
I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination. — Reeve Carney
The more everybody knows about all aspects of the problems we face, the better off all of us will be. Less time spent explaining things… — Jesse James Garrett
As a legislator, I saw how effective I could be by being transparent, posting and explaining all of my votes. — Justin Amash
Words are for explaining the mistakes we might have made, names are for calling when there is nothing left to say. — Gordon Lightfoot
De Morgan was explaining to an actuary what was the chance that a certain proportion of some group of people would at the end of… — W. W. Rouse Ball
You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself. — Peter Garrett
Writing has been a way of explaining to myself the things I do not understand. — Rosario Castellanos
I can conceive few human states more enviable than that of the man to whom, panting in the foul laboratory, or watching for his life… — Charles Kingsley
The Synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the PhÃ¦nomena proceeding from them, and proving the Explanations. — Isaac Newton
The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable of explaining life. — Richard Dawkins
When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there results shapeliness. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The optimistic style of explaining good events is the opposite of that used for bad events: It's internal rather than external. — Martin Seligman
To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation. — Yves Klein
I've not often been a man of many words. I've never considered myself to be overly articulate. I do feel more comfortable acting something out… — Guy Pearce

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