Quotes of: Never-explain Keyword

I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn't have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals.

Mary Wesley

I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.

Robert Smith

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

Albert Einstein

I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do.

Alexis Korner

If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.

Alan Perlis

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

Ayn Rand

Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.

Alexei Sayle

There is something in me I cannot quite explain - it is like peace infected with the sweetest pain.

Love

All I knew was that in a way I couldn't explain, his hug matched his stare.

Love

The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.

Arthur Erickson

I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever.

Kit Reed

As the Protestants celebrate a goal, they're egged on by the team captain, a long-haired Italian called Lorenzo Amoruso, who has the look of a 1980s male model. Flailing his arms, he urges them to sing their anti-Catholic songs louder. The irony is o...

How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization

There's a strange uniformity in the vocabulary European soccer fans use to hate black people. The same primate insults get hurled. Although they've gotten better over time, the English and Italians developed the tradition of making ape noises when bl...

How Soccer Explains the World

How to explain the sheer tingling joy one experiences when two interesting, complex, and occasionally aggravating characters have at last settled their misunderstandings and will live happily ever after, no matter what travails life might throw in th...

The Jane Austen Handbook: A Sensible Yet Elegant Guide to Her World

The great masters of modern analysis are , , and , who were contemporaries. It is interesting to note the marked contrast in their styles. is perfect both in form and matter, he is careful to explain his procedure, and though his arguments are genera...

A Short Account of the History of Mathematics

Three years with Claudia had taught Ruso that when a woman said something did not matter and refused to tell you what it was, it usually mattered a great deal—to her, if not to you. Frequently her way of punishing you for not knowing what it was in...

Terra Incognita

Real mystery - the very reason to read (and certainly write) any book - was to them a thing to dismantle, distill and mine out into rubble they could tyrannize into sorry but more permanent explanations; monuments to themselves, in other words. In my...

Richard Ford

I love you... I love you without needing you, I love you without wanting you. I love you for being you. Because, you see, needing you is a necessity; and wanting you is a desire. But being, is as it is. And so, you as you are, this as it is, is as it...

Israel S. Dudley

The fundamental absurdity of materialism is that it starts from the objective, and takes as the ultimate ground of explanation something objective, whether it be matter in the abstract, simply as it is thought, or after it has taken form, is empirica...

Arthur Schopenhauer

Let me explain before another word is written: I have never once asked a cat, "So tell me what's up, Charlie?" and Charlie says, "Jeez Jackson, thanks for asking. A little annoyed by the fluorescent lights, and will you please check out this tiny pie...

Cat Daddy: What the World's Most Incorrigible Cat Taught Me About Life, Love, and Coming Clean

I listen to the things people want out of love these days and they blow my mind. I go to the pub with the boys from the squad and listen while they explain, with minute precision, exactly what shape a woman should be, what bits she should shave how, ...

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