(232 quotes found)
“A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.”
H. H. Munro
“[L]et my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if he does not find himself suddenly not a compact human being at all, but only a consciousness on a sea of sound and touch . . .”
Shirley Jackson
“The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense.”
William Buechner
“In dealing with kids, no matter how little we understand their explanations, we must always remember that we're the adults. What this means I have no idea. It certainly means nothing to the kids, who instinctively seem to know that adults are merely strange people who have dopey ideas like "Stop throwing peas at your sister."”
Bill Cosby
“It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises but only performance is reality.”
Harold S. Geneen
“When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.”
Pat Riley
“Too late for changes, too late perhaps for explanations and ideological webs, but the love goes on, the love goes on, blind to laws and warnings and even to wisdom and to fears. And whatever that love is, perhaps an illusion of a new love, I want it, I can't resist it, my whole being melts in one kiss, my knowledge melts, my fears melt, my blood dances, my legs open.”
Anais Nin
“Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.”
“There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad that tie is.”
Russell Crowe
“We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to those who convincingly disprove established beliefs.”
Dr. Carl Sagan
