Quotes of: Explaining Keyword

The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.

The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia

This is England," he explained. "Tell someone it's a procedure, and they'll believe you. The pointless procedure is one of our great natural resources.

The Madness Underneath

And another way of explaining it is to say that shit happens, and there's no space too small, too dark and airless and fucking hopeless, for people to crawl into.

A Long Way Down

I suppose that I did for myself what psychoanalysts do for their patients. I expressed some very long felt and deeply felt emotion. And in expressing it I explained it and then laid it to rest.

To the Lighthouse

What is necessary, he explains, is an understanding that the youth are not the Other. It is being able to see your humanity reflected in them.

Last Chance in Texas: The Redemption of Criminal Youth

An event in the present evokes past sensations. But science couldn't explain how a foolish heart had the power to overrule common sense.

Summer by the Sea

Struggle was the explanation behind all the most troubling biological mysteries: species differentiation, species extinction, and species transmutation. Struggle explained everything

The Signature of All Things

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer; art is everything else.

Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About

Lots of men think that women should tell the truth, explain their feelings. These men should use their wishes more wisely. (Prepare To Die!, p.27)

Prepare to Die!

Build a house?" exclaimed John. "For the Wendy," said Curly. "For Wendy?" John said, aghast. "Why, she is only a girl!" "That," explained Curly, "is why we are her servants.

Peter Pan

That explains a lot,' he said. 'I suppose it's also why we've never glimpsed that giant compass in the corner of the Atlantic. I have to say, I'm a little disappointed.

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists

I work hard in the orchard, not for the money anymore, but for something I can't explain. Something worth more than money.

A Place Like This

Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

Pudd'nhead Wilson

Holly's theory about the army," Sharon explained. And what is it?" Denise asked, intrigued. Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

PS, I Love You

The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for the baroque.

VALIS

Not knowing the answer to a question is not a valid excuse for making up a fairytale to explain it.

Why There Is No God: Simple Responses to 20 Common Arguments for the Existence of God

I actually like how doctors talk. I like the sound of science. I like how words you don't understand explain things you can't understand.

Wonder

I'd start to explain with the outward sheepish and inner pride of the nerd.

You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity

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 that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families.

Asa Gray

I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.

Julie Andrews

On TV, stories and events are finalized in 30 or 60 minutes, or neatly tied up after a season or two. The best stories are the ones that force us to come to our own conclusions and to explain why we believe in our conclusions.

Lurlene McDaniel