#explanation

I think that's the way people absorb television. All the explanations in Doctor Who are there if that's your bag, but they're not essential to your enjoyment of it. An awful lot of storytelling isn't really about making people understand — it's about making people care. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#storytelling #understanding #storytelling

A word is a lot. ↗

— Etgar Keret

#life #love #monologue #life

What happened?" Bailey asks. "That is somewhat difficult to explain," Tsukiko answers. "It is a long and complicated story." "And you're not going to tell me, are you?" She tilts her head a bit ... "No, I am not," she says. "Great," Bailey mutters under his breath... "The bonfire exploded? How?" "Remember when I said it was difficult to explain? That has not changed. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#humor #secrets #story #change

When I knelt to kiss her hand, she sighed heavily. 'Ask me nothing,' she said. 'Life itself is too joyless to be more embittered by explanations. Let all rest between us as now. I will love coldly, you warmly, with no nearer approaching.' ("The Basilisk") ↗

— R. Murray Gilchrist

#life #love #life

There has to be new words to explain new worlds. ↗

— Toba Beta

#inspirational #life #new #truth #words

Those who know you don’t need explanations, those who don’t won't believe you ! ↗

— Chris Geiger

#explanations #inspirational #life #inspirational

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#any #characteristic #essence #explanations #full

I believe I am entitled to a public explanation. ↗

— Richard Jewell

#believe #entitled #explanation #i #i am

People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing - but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation. ↗

— Nancy Kerrigan

#ask #doing #explanation #i #i always

I have three degrees in history and only one in law, but since I came back to specialize in constitutional law where history is so essentially a part and an explanation of much that exists, the two disciplines blended very well. ↗

— Frank Scott

#blended #came #constitutional #degrees #disciplines