#plain

I can't explain 9/11, except the evil of man. ↗

— Billy Graham

#except #explain #i #man

Small-business customers are very conservative and very cheap. We don't have to explain ourselves for the most part. ↗

— Paul Graham

#conservative #customers #explain #most #ourselves

I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families. ↗

— Asa Gray

#best #cause #explaining #extinction #families

One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#how #like #lot #magic #magician

I think it's a little simplistic to explain a work through the psychology of its author. In other words, that Haneke has emotional problems, so I don't have to take his films seriously. By using this argument, the viewer retreats from the challenges of the film. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#author #challenges #emotional #explain #film

There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds. ↗

— G. H. Hardy

#criticism #explain #exposition #justifiable #make

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them! ↗

— Max Muller

#explain #mysteries #secrets #tell #them

It always weirds me out and makes me unhappy that some people think I'm Justin. I'm not. People can be talking to me and I know they think they are talking to Justin. It's hard to explain. ↗

— Randy Harrison

#explain #hard #i #justin #know

Never complain. Never explain. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#explain #never #never complain #never explain

It is plain that, when it comes to inferior officers, Congress itself can pass a law sending these nominees to the President with him having the authority to put them on the bench without the advice and consent of the Senate. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

#authority #bench #comes #congress #consent