Explicit Quotes

144 quotes by 136 authors

• Trying to express implicit and fuzzy relationships in ways that are explicit and sharp doesn't clarify the meaning, it destroys it. — Clay Shirky
• I am committed to writing appropriate books for the middle grades. This means no bad language, no gratuitous or explicit violence, and no sexual content… — Rick Riordan
• Part of the triumph of modernist poetry is, indeed, to have demonstrated the great extent to which verse can do without explicit meaning and yet… — Clement Greenberg
• The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
• The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is… — Wyndham Lewis
• Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way. Being explicit doesn't tap into… — David
• The gods have provided me with clear and compelling signs of what it means to live in conformity to nature. They did their part. So… — Marcus Aurelius
• His hypothesis goes to this - to make the common run of his readers fancy they can do all that can be done by genius,… — William Hazlitt
• Students teach all sorts of things but most importantly they make explicit the courage that it takes to be a learner, the courage it takes… — Junot Diaz
• Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for… — Walt Disney
• Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others. — Benjamin Disraeli
• The really explicit phrase is doors of perception. — Marianne Faithfull
• The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love,… — Henri Nouwen
• What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means… — Karl Rahner
• In addition to their 'do no evil' motto, Googlers have always been guided by another, much less explicit philosophy: 'computational arrogance.' — Evgeny Morozov
• The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
• Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear of… — Bertrand Russell
• I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to… — John Updike
• Long before I became a feminist in any explicit way, I had turned from writing love stories about women in which women were losers, and… — Joanna Russ
• In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence… — Werner Herzog

Who Wrote These Explicit Quotes

136 authors contributed a total of 144 Explicit Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 3 Explicit Quotes by Wyndham Lewis
• 3 Explicit Quotes by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
• 2 Explicit Quotes by Siri Hustvedt
• 2 Explicit Quotes by Alice Meynell
• 2 Explicit Quotes by Noam Chomsky
• 2 Explicit Quotes by Henri Nouwen
• 1 Explicit Quote by Beverly LaHaye
• 1 Explicit Quote by Alexander Grothendieck
• 1 Explicit Quote by Evgeny Morozov
• 1 Explicit Quote by Derrick Jensen
• 1 Explicit Quote by Lynne Cheney
• 1 Explicit Quote by Harry Markopolos
• 1 Explicit Quote by Bertrand Russell
• 1 Explicit Quote by Piet Hein
• 1 Explicit Quote by Henry Moore
• 1 Explicit Quote by Samuel Richardson
• 1 Explicit Quote by John Updike
• 1 Explicit Quote by Roy Bean
• 1 Explicit Quote by Jeremy Bentham
• 1 Explicit Quote by Larry Wall
• 1 Explicit Quote by Joanna Russ
• 1 Explicit Quote by Sam
• 1 Explicit Quote by Jack Vance
• 1 Explicit Quote by Linda Armstrong
• 1 Explicit Quote by Werner Herzog