Elucidating Quotes

#1. In Haiti, as I understand it, storytelling and history itself are not a business of necessarily elucidating facts or the truth of an incident, but finding the version that is most entertaining and therefore will get retold and live in immortality.

John Edgar Wideman

#2. It is too often forgotten that the gift of speech, so centrally employed, has been elaborated as much for the purpose of concealing thought by dissimulation and lying as for the purpose of elucidating and communicating thought.

Wilfred Bion

#3. This book originally aimed at pressing a useful metaphor into the service of elucidating a troubled world; a world

Yanis Varoufakis

#4. Emotions are far harder things to understand than algebra and geometry, yet we spend hours in elucidating mathematics and expect such a problem as that of human relationships to solve itself.

Frances G. Wickes

#5. The challenge of elucidating living processes
including consciousness and all its baggage which we bundle together as 'the human spirit'
is only one example of a challenge where hard work is paying off and science does not need to accept the false explanations peddled by religions.

Peter Atkins

#6. I promptly fell in love with scientific research and soon had assigned myself, as a major vocation, the task of elucidating the mechanism of action of the antidiabetic hormone.

Christian De Duve

#7. Above all, TRIBES is fun, and even kind of sexy ... in that every round features an Opportunity for Reproduction, which is the main aim of the game, as it is in most of Nature.

David Brin

#8. I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It's why we seek the limelight - so we're not alone, were adored. We're loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life.

Jennifer Lopez

#9. Friends are just enemies you don't know enough about.

Jeremy Davies

#10. When you're songwriting, it's like talking about your own life experience. When you're with a band, you have to compromise.

Timothy B. Schmit

#11. Life isn't a vintage film," Christopher said. When he saw my confused face he explained. "Things aren't always black-and-white.

Eileen Cook