Explainability Issue Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes magazines will take artist's creative choices too literally; they assume that I actually live the way I do in music videos. For example: the whole "Dirty" thing. Do you think I wear chaps to the grocery store? — Christina Aguilera

Peace is an innocent child hated by some deviant and those who hate him will find no peace ever in their lives! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Jane-Sweetie, we've talked about your weight-" my mother began.
I'm only eight years old," I said. "How about I promise to be anorexic later? — James Patterson

If I see everything in gray, and in gray all the colors which I experience and which I would like to reproduce, then why should I use any other color? — Alberto Giacometti

Evangelicals sometimes expect too much or, to put it more precisely, we look for a kind of change God hasn't promised. It's possible to expect too little, but under-expectation is usually a cynical reaction to dashed hopes for too much. We manage to interpret biblical teaching to support our longing for perfection. As a result, we measure our progress by standards we will never meet until heaven. — Larry Crabb

I reach now for a victim who is not easy for me to overcome: my own past. Perhaps this victim will flee from me with a speed that equals my own. Whatever, I seek now a victim that I have never faced. And there is the thrill of the hunt in it, what the modern world calls investigation. — Anne Rice

No one ever won a game by resigning. — Savielly Tartakower

I don't want to dive into that mud slide, which is what I consider the literary process. — Joseph Brodsky

We take the responsibility for our own enlightenment. We can pray for some help, and we may get it. But the work is ours to do. — Darren Littlejohn

We humans are confined to our brane. — Kip S. Thorne

He prayed on Fridays with the Muslims, on Saturdays with the Jews and on Sundays with the Christians. 'Since each religion claims that it is the only true one and that the others are invalid', the king explained, 'I have decided to hedge my bets'. — Ahmad Ibn Rustah

You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people. — Stephen Sondheim

The government isn't real," he replied. He might have been talking about Santa Claus or God. "I don't owe anything to anyone who in themselves are lies and liars. — Walter Mosley

It is raining DNA outside. On the bank of the Oxford canal at the bottom of my garden is a large willow tree, and it is pumping downy seeds into the air ... spreading DNA whose coded characters spell out specific instructions for building willow trees that will shed a new generation of downy seeds ... It is raining instructions out there; it's raining programs; it's raining tree-growing, fluff-spreading, algorithms. That is not a metaphor, it is the plain truth. It couldn't be any plainer if it were raining floppy discs. — Richard Dawkins

Looking into blood doping. I think it will allow me to write jokes with greater intensity, and for a longer period of time. — Dov Davidoff