logo

Quotes About Explained

All knowledge is conjectural and ... science progresses through new theories coming to replace older ones when it becomes clear that a new theory is able to make sense of a greater circle of phenomena than are comprehended and explained by the older one and is able to predict new phenomena more accurately.
~ John Bowlby
In a dream, in a fairytale, nothing has to be explained, everything happens of its own accord.
~ Antonia Michaelis
It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
He wants your secret, Marius, that Roman blood drinker. How he begged me to explain the mystery of Those Who Must Be Kept.
~ Anne Rice
Dana can't stand the idea of an ugly tree not getting to be a Christmas tree," her husband the marshal explained with a shake of his head. "We do what we can for it.
~ B.J. Daniels
No one knew where wandering men had their homes or their origin; and how was a man to be explained unless you at least knew somebody who knew his father and mother?
~ George Eliot
The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.
~ Olympia Brown
In crime books it's possible to chart forensic technology by how well it has to be explained to a reader. In mid-Victorian crime novels fingerprinting has to be explained because it's new. Nowadays it's part of our world and we can simply assume that knowledge if we write about it.
~ Sara Sheridan
It's my belief, Kit, the woman's touched in her upper works.' 'No, she is merely addicted to poetry,' explained Kitty.
~ Georgette Heyer
I went to Fulham for the project they explained to me - but it didn't really work out. I might have been playing at a high level for the national team, but I was starting to miss those European nights and challenging for titles.
~ Edwin van der Sar
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Trust your reader. Not everything needs to be explained. If you really know something, and breathe life into it, they'll know it too.
~ Esther Freud
And now the work begins And now the joy begins Now the years of preparation Of tedious study and Exciting learning are explained
~ Maya Angelou
Okay, the cops are gone. I explained about my mother and her obsession with the transvestite killer. They didn't even get that mad.
~ Meg Cabot
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
But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.
~ Haruki Murakami
Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it. I'm speaking from experience. Somebody once said if it's something a single book can explain, it's not worth having explained. What I mean is don't leap to any conclusions.
~ Haruki Murakami
I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven't been explained in song.
~ Clint Black
It was no longer an unexplained blip on his radar. There was now something solid there, and it needed to be explained and understood
~ Michael Connelly
Sinegal explained the Costco model to Bezos: it was all about customer loyalty.
~ Brad Stone
There were moments," she explained, "when you struck me as grandly cynical; there were others when you struck me as grandly vague.
~ Henry James
I could kidnap your mother," he offered. "If you need the phone records explained.
~ C.E. Murphy
Ah, well, when you explain it like that, it seems obvious, said Mudge. Of course, it always seems obvious once it's been explained.
~ Theodora Goss
I already explained this. I don't like you. True, I don't like most people, but I especially dislike you. I could start my own religion based on how much I dislike you.
~ G.A. Aiken