Quotes tagged ‘explanation’

“I may not be streetwise and all that, but at least I’m not that dumb!”

— Gregory Nava, Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, Jennifer Lopez, imdb.com

“Chase: Maybe there's an actual explanation. I mean, they have to be doing all this for a reason, right? What if there's a good one? Molly: A good reason to kill kids. Nico: Chase, come on. Chase: I know it doesn't make any sense, but, I don't know. I was with my dad before, and what if we're missing…”

— Rodney Barnes, Michael Vukadinovich, Chase Stein, Gregg Sulkin, imdb.com

“You go explain Yom Kippur to gentiles. We’re happy, but we’re starving. It’s New Years, but we’re guilty.”

— Amy Sherman-Palladino, Moishe Maisel, Kevin Pollak, imdb.com

“Jai Wilcox: I would like nothing more than to explain things to you. But so much of what I need to tell you is classified. Annie Walker: The problem with this job is that excuses like that are valid.”

— Matt Corman, Chris Ord, Annie Walker, Piper Perabo, imdb.com

“It’s not enough to do good things. You have to let people know what you’re doing.”

— Phil Knight, addicted2success.com

“I'm a very lucky guy. I had so many people help me over the years that I never had many problems. If I had a problem, I could sit down with someone and they would explain the problem to me, and the problem become like a baseball game."”

— Willie Mays, successories.com

“I've tried to put the pieces together. I wish I could prove it by trotting out blood tests, but I can't. All I can do is tell you the story I believe, the one I've heard from people who were there and should know.”

— Etta James, amazon.com

“It’s because I love you, dear—”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, fitzgerald.narod.ru

“Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel..Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.”

— Graham Greene, amazon.com

“They will explain themselves — as all poems should do without any comment.”

— John Keats, en.wikiquote.org

“But how can I explain, how can I explain to you? You will understand less after I have explained it.”

— T. S. Eliot, amazon.com

“I’m doing badly, I’m doing well; whichever you prefer.”

— Franz Kafka, amazon.com

“I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven’s name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre, amazon.com

“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way - things I had no words for.”

— Georgia O’Keeffe, amazon.com

“It’s not fair. People claim to know you through the things you’ve done, and not by sitting down and listening to you speak for yourself.”

— Hannah Kent, amazon.com

“‘’I’m not as lost as you think’’”

— 6LACK, open.spotify.com

“I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.”

— J. D. Salinger, amazon.com

“Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.”

— Hunter S. Thompson, amazon.com

“You don’t have to defend or explain your decisions to anyone. It’s your life. Live it without apologies”

— Mandy Hale, onlinecounsellingcollege.tumblr.com

“It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com