Quotes with explain

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  • Toni Morrison I can't explain inspiration. A writer is either compelled to write or not. And if I waited for inspiration I wouldn't really be a writer.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Anne Stevenson I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • David Gemmell I don't know yet whether I fully believe in fate, but certain things do happen in a man's life that he cannot explain.
    Legend (2011)
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Anne Stevenson I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Ben Carson I've had experiences in my life that leave no doubt in my mind about the fact that God exists. I'm quite willing to debate people who don't think so because I want them to explain to me how did our solar system get so organized and how is the universe so complex and yet well-organized that we can predict 70 years hence when a comet is coming?
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Richard P. Feynman If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
    Richard P. Feynman
    American theoretical physicist and Nobel price winner (1918 - 1988)
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  • Bill Goldberg If it took professional wrestling for people to recognize me as a person, then all the other endeavors I embark upon will explain me as a person, define me as a person, but wrestling will not define me.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Carlos Gershenson If something has an explanation, you can explain it. If it has no explanation, you should explain why you cannot explain it.
    Artificial Societies of Intelligent Agents (2001)
    Carlos Gershenson
    Mexican author and academic (1978 - )
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  • Albert Einstein If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Harry Mathews If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else.
    Dirk Gently's holistisch detectivebureau (2016) 24
    Harry Mathews
    American writer (1930 - 2017)
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  • Barry Diller If you're going to run a public company, be absolutely certain of what the parameters are, what the clarity is, that you can explain it to yourselves and explain it externally.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Brian Austin Green In every interview I've got to explain something about being white but still being into hip hop. It's gone way beyond the musical aspect of the business. And I'm as critical about music as everybody else is.
    Brian Austin Green
    American actor, rapper and producer (1973 - )
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  • Florence Scovel Shinn Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
    Florence Scovel Shinn
    American artist, writer
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  • Sarah Orne Jewett It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.
    Sarah Orne Jewett
    American novelist, short story writer and poet (1849 - 1909)
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  • Murray Kempton It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.
    Murray Kempton
    American journalist
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  • Ezra Pound It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Albert Einstein It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.
    A Study in Scarlet (1887)
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Barry Bonds It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
    Barry Bonds
    American professional baseball player (1964 - )
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