#explained

Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.' ↗

— Joey Adams

#explained #get #late #oil #once

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#explained #need #nor #photograph #true

The first dog I had was owned by an abusive couple. He was very skittish. He wouldn't let me hold him. It was explained to me that it was because of how he was treated. ↗

— Casey Affleck

#couple #dog #explained #first #had

I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven't been explained in song. ↗

— Clint Black

#been #captured #christmas #explained #feel

Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#because #car #design #designer #engineer

You never get quite down to the bottom of the barrel, but we are much higher than that at the present time. There is quite a lot left in the barrel that could be explained by them. If they have some weapons, if they have some anthrax, they should deliver that. ↗

— Hans Blix

#barrel #bottom #could #deliver #down

My childhood beliefs became so much a part of me that even today I find myself automatically living by a personal standard of conduct which can only be explained as resulting from my religious training. ↗

— Robert Vaughn

#became #beliefs #childhood #conduct #even

My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of geological time, the successive tiny changes produced generation after generation by natural selection. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#after #challenged #changes #darwinian #explained

Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando. ↗

— Orlando Jones

#ago #being #between #brando #difference

Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#advance #agricultural #basis #causation #darwin