Explainers Quotes & Sayings

Bible prophecies indicate that in the last dispensation of the gospel, there would be a restoration of all of the principles and practices of former dispensations, which includes temple-building and the performing of ordinances therein. — David B. Haight

He could not know that thoughts are not things you can give or not give. Thoughts are thrust upon you. You can only hope that thoughts that you don't want will tire of you at some point and flutter away. — Susan Meissner

We cannot possess the truth fully until it has entered into the very substance of our life by good habits, and by a certain perfection of moral activity. — Thomas Merton

Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we've got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of creativity and its sources. Imagine is his best book yet. — Joshua Foer

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own. — Abraham Lincoln

My mode of presentation is short-form video - basically I create fast cut, impassioned 'idea explainers' that explode with enthusiasm and intensity as they distill how technology is expanding our sphere of possibility. — Jason Silva

I was scared into being good. But I'm sure I did regular kid stuff. — Larry The Cable Guy

I go way beyond just the wood and stone but to the process of growth and farming and the tensions between the two. — Andy Goldsworthy

Every one of her foxey ways was now so absolutely precious to him that I believe that if he had known for certain she was dead, and had thoughts of marrying a second time, he would never have been happy with a woman. No, indeed, he would have been more tempted to get himself a tame fox, and would have counted that as good a marriage as he could make. — David Garnett

But dreams full oft are found of real events
The form and shadows. — Joanna Baillie

It remains to be seen whether the more optimistic scenario for Sino-American relations can be realised. Much rests on the shoulders of the two leaders: Obama on this score has so far been disappointing; the early signs are that Xi is a highly confident leader who thinks big. — Martin Jacques

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance. — Samuel Johnson

We are all getting tired of the Village Explainers. Explanations don't seem to be explaining very much anymore. Authoritative accounts have a way of looking like official lies, which in their solemnity start to sound funny. — David Shields

Many people who I respected were disappointed when I started 'Wine Library TV.' They thought I was dumbing down wine, but I always knew I was one of the biggest producers of new wine drinkers in the world, and people are realizing it now. — Gary Vaynerchuk

Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as it is, telling how other events may be achieved or avoided. — Kurt Vonnegut

I just believe in working. I'm not one of those romantic explainers of my own individual point of view. — Imogen Cunningham

It would take another Earthling to explain it to you. Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as it is, telling how other events may be achieved or avoided. I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber." "You sound to me as though you don't believe in free will," said Billy Pilgrim. — Kurt Vonnegut

I've got this brilliant thing where I go, 'I'm Robbie Williams', and people are interested in what I want to say - which is amazing because I'm just an idiot from Stoke-on-Trent. — Robbie Williams

Because we are universal explainers, we are not simply obeying our genes. For — David Deutsch

I've learned that if you can't get it all together to accomplish this thing called peace, you do at least your part in your life, because that's where you can truly make an immediate difference. — River Phoenix

NOTICE
Persons attempting to find a "text" in this book will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a "subtext" in this book will be banished; persons attempting to explain, interpret, explicate, analyze, deconstruct, or otherwise "understand" it will be exiled to a desert island in the company only of other explainers.
BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR — Wendell Berry

Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down. — Edmund Hillary