Quotes About Clarity

Every stupid thing in the world, decaffeinated coffee, alcohol free beer, makes perfect sense, not because you're any smarter, but because the smart part of your brain's on vacation.

His Highness looks at Denny and says, "Those glasses you're wearing, do you need them?" "Only to see with," Denny says.

Noth­ing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list

That would be like breaking a mirror for showing you the truth.

If you don't know what you want, the doorman said, you end up with a lot you don't.

If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.

It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we don't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed. Even if it's for sure unexplainable. Even God.

Give me clarity. Give me reasons. Give me answers. Flash.

The doorman leaned into my shoulder and said, A lot of young people don't know what they really want.

A quello che non capisci puoi dare qualunque significato.

And another thing," he cautioned me, "don't use a lot of commas. People hate sentences with lots of commas. Keep your sentences short. Readers like short sentences.

If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, you end up with a lot you don't.

It is only after the intellect collapses that any true communication exists.

This really happens. It sounds trite, but only because words make everything true sound trite. Because words always screw up what you're trying to say.

If you don't know what you want," the doorman said," you end up with a lot you don't.

A veces te despiertas y tienes que preguntarte dónde estás.

It's hard to explain to someone who's never had the experience—the unmistakable, life-altering moment when you read a book and realize that someone out in the world has read your mind and put into words all the thoughts and ideas crashing around inside your own head. For me, it was like Don Swanstrom

If you don't know what you want,' the doorman said, 'you end up with a lot you don't.

Ich hatte die ganze Zeit gedacht, die beiden ziehen über meinen Großvater her, aber dann wurde mir klar, die meinten mich. Das heißt, natürlich meinten sie irgendeinen verrückten Killer, aber das war immer noch ich, die ich da in Häschenpantoffeln und Pelzmantel saß.

It's that kind of faux wisdom. That kind of Chinese food enlightenment where you know that ten minutes after your head clears, you'll forget it all.

EÄŸer ne istediÄŸini bilmezsen diyor kap?c?, bir bakars?n istemediÄŸin bir sürü ÅŸeyin olmuÅŸ.

So direct and misdirect your reader, but don't tell her the meaning of anything. Not until she gets it wrong in her head.

Por favor, enséñenme una sola cosa en el mundo que sea lo que parece.

Estos hombres y mujeres sentados detrás de puertas sin cerrar saben que una casa más grande no es la respuesta. Ni tampoco un cambio de marido o de mujer ni más dinero ni una piel más tersa. —Cualquier cosa que puedas adquirir —dice ella— es otra cosa que acabarás perdiendo. La respuesta es que no hay respuesta.