He Explained Quotes

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Asked if he knew how important Stardust would be, Mitchell Parish said he did have a gut feeling that this was a momentous one. But… — Paul Zollo
The American appetite for loneliness impressed me, and there was something about this solitude that freed conversation. One night at a bar, I met a… — Peter Hessler
The author tells a story wherein a missionary friend of his was invited by unbelievers on a train ride to play cards. The friend declined,… — Watchman Nee
I asked a coughing friend of mine why he doesn't stop smoking. 'In this town it wouldn't do any good,' he explained. 'I happen to… — Robert Sylvester
The Apostle Paul in his letter to the Romans said that those who pass judgment on others are 'inexcusable.' The moment we judge someone else,… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. ''I'm looking for a loop-hole,'' he explained. — W.C. Fields
Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he… — Doris Kearns Goodwin
They tell about a fifteen-year-old boy in an orphans' home who had an incurable stutter. One Sunday the minister was detained and the boy volunteered… — Bennett Cerf
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
When I was a kid and I was being introduced to science fiction by watching movies with my Dad, Kubrick is one of those guys… — Duncan Jones
When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because… — Brian Eno
I went to a psychoanalyst. He explained things about my love life that I found very impressive... almost scary. — Britney Spears
October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a book, did not end a tale.… — Neil Gaiman
We didn't exactly believe your story.' Then --?' 'We believed your two hundred dollars.' 'You mean --' She seemed not to know what he meant.… — Dashiell Hammett
He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer. — Elie Wiesel
Shut up,' he explained. — Ring Lardner
A gentleman can hardly continue to sit,' he explained, in his serenest and most level voice, 'when he asks a very remarkable young lady to… — Elizabeth Marie Pope
He stood staring into the wood for a minute, then said: "What is it about the English countryside â€” why is the beauty so much… — Dodie Smith
I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, " he explained. "I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot… — Arthur Golden
Glen had a disability more disfiguring than a burn and more terrifying than cancer. Glen had been born on the day after Christmas. "My parents… — Augusten Burroughs

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