Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

Hector Hugh Munro

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• 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
  • People
  • Loved
  • Explanation

• You should know something, Miriam.... God changed our futures yesterday. There's no other explanation for what happened. And it wasn't the first God. If you ever need hlep, you might want to try the second God.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • God
  • Trying
  • Firsts

• The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it’s a failure in communication.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Art
  • Poetry
  • Failure

• A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Thoughts
  • Human
  • Behavior

• The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.

  

  Václav Hlavatý
  • Faith
  • Left
  • Explanation

• Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Good
  • Music
  • Explanation

• A young professor I watched in action at one of our large eastern colleges used to stand with his back to the class and mumble explanations of blackboard problems. He was "let out" at the end of two years because students refused to attend his classes. He was given an evasive reason for his dismissal and he left with justifiable bitterness toward the administration. If someone had told him the truth he could have avoided this denouement. Sometimes professors go on for years without any conception of remediable faults which irritate their listeners.

  

  Mary Barnett Gilson
  • Truth
  • Action
  • Explanation

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

  

  D.T. Max
  • Explanation
  • Mistrust
  • Narrators

• There isnt always an explanation for everything.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Explanation

• Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question.

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • Miracles
  • Explanation
  • Scientific

• Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Explanation
  • Unhappiness

• He who believes needs no explanation.

  

  Euripides
  • Needs
  • Believes
  • Explanation

• Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Read
  • Explanation
  • Repeat

• For me, writing is not a search for explanations but a ramble in quest of what informs a place, a hunt for equivalents.

  

  William Lewis Trogdon
  • Writing
  • Explanation
  • Quests

• If you want something done, ask. If you want something done quickly, ask, and then begin counting down from ten with no explanation.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Want
  • Explanation
  • Counting

• From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Music
  • School
  • Kind

• There's no present, there's no future, I don't even know about the past.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Past
  • Knows
  • Explanation

• No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Explanation
  • Adventures
  • Dreadful Time

• If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to who we were, then we couldn't do better than the Natural History Museum, although it wouldn't contain a single human. The systematic Linnean order, the vast inquisitiveness and range of collated knowledge and beauty would tell all that is the best of us.

  

  Adrian Anthony Gill
  • World
  • Science
  • Humans

• There is synthesis when, in combining therein judgments that are made known to us from simpler relations, one deduces judgments from them relative to more complicated relations. There is analysis when from a complicated truth one deduces more simple truths.

  

  Andre-Marie Ampere
  • Truths
  • Analysis
  • Synthesis

• It's just been a wild ride. We've finally been able to put the icing on the cake with this mission.

  

  Eileen Collins
  • Mission
  • Ride
  • Icing

• It was the White Man who spanned the continents of the world with railroads and super highways and electrical power lines. It was the White Man who created the miraculous world of electronics, ushering in the telephone, the radio and television. It was the White Race, who in a combined burst of energy and genius sent rockets to the moon and planted the feet of the White Man on extra-terrestrial territory in the last decade.

  

  Ben Klassen
  • Energy
  • Television
  • White Man

• Only this is true, that beauty is very beautiful, and softens, and inspires, and rouses, and lifts up, and never fails.

  

  Edward Burne-Jones
  • Beautiful
  • Failing
  • Inspire

• A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

  

  Hector Hugh Munro
  • Explanation
  • Inaccuracy