Explainer Quotes

#1. Being is the great explainer.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation.

D.T. Max

#3. Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer.

Thomas Perry

#4. A village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.
(on Ezra Pound)

Gertrude Stein

#5. My prickles or smoothness are as much a quality of your hand as of myself. I cannot tell you what I am, more than a ray of the summer's sun. What I am I am, and say not. Being is the great explainer.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. [On Ezra Pound:] A village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.

Gertrude Stein

#7. When people commit themselves to a certain vision of reality, it becomes their ultimate explainer. It serves to interpret the universe for them, to guide their moral decisions, to give meaning and purpose to life, and all the other functions normally associated with a religion.

Nancy Pearcey

#8. There is joy at the end of every struggle we face. But you can never cross over and get there with the boats of complains. Complainer is only an explainer of pain! Take action!

Israelmore Ayivor

#9. It's an awful stretcher to believe that a peacock's tail was thus formed but ... most people just don't get it - I must be a very bad explainer

Charles Darwin

#10. The whole other world that LSD opened your mind to existed only in the moment itself - Now - and any attempt to plan, compose, orchestrate, write a script, only locked you out the moment, back to the world of conditioning and training where the brain was a reducing valve

Tom Wolfe

#11. Hold on to the darkness ... I will come looking for your light.

Dimitri Zaik

#12. I quickly decided that he was bipolar,

Whitney G.

#13. I wanted to pull the thread, unravel the scarf of my silence and start again from the beginning.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#14. Man sows good wheat seed in his field, but later finds that an enemy has sown weeds among the wheat. When the workers ask if they should pull the weeds out, the farmer tells them to allow both wheat and weeds to grow until the time of the harvest, when the two can be more easily separated.

Stephan A. Hoeller

#15. Katie, I know it's your life. But please ... live it. Please live.

Amanda Sun

#16. I believe that through its rational evaluation of truth and indifference to personal belief, science transcends religious and political divisions and so does bind us into a greater, more resilient whole.

Brian Greene