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Genius does not care much for a set of explicit regulations, but that does not mean that genius is lawless. — Charles Henry Parkhurst

The photograph suggests that our image of reality is made up of images. It makes explicit the domination of mediation. — Andy Grundberg

I'm a guy who comes from a small town in the Midwest. It's not in my nature to say the most explicit things in public. — Jim Gaffigan

If no thought your mind does visit, make your speech not too explicit. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

The horror genre has been for me an original way of taking an explicit visual and visionary approach to directing. — Michele Soavi

A too explicit elucidation in education destroys much of the pleasure of learning. There should be room for sly hinters, masters of suggestion. — Theodore Roethke

To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham. — Larry Wall

In addition to their 'do no evil' motto, Googlers have always been guided by another, much less explicit philosophy: 'computational arrogance.' — Evgeny Morozov

In a tenderness so explicit, sexuality can become obsolete — Anonymous

The Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People is sacredly obligatory upon all. — George Washington

One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent. — Teju Cole

We need to have much clearer regulations on things like corporate funding of scientific research. Things need to be made explicit which are implicit. — Noreena Hertz

I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit. — Duncan Sheik

Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph. — Thomas Mann

Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands. — Daniel J. Boorstin

In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter. — James Mark Baldwin

Social action must be animated by a vision of a future society, and by explicit judgments of value concerning the character of this future society. — Noam Chomsky

If Finn had brought me something with bubbles, I probably would have performed explicit favors for him involving feathers and chocolate pudding. — Molly Harper

Trying to express implicit and fuzzy relationships in ways that are explicit and sharp doesn't clarify the meaning, it destroys it. — Clay Shirky

Art was there to scratch at people's brains, to help ideas find traction in metaphor that they could not when made explicit. — Rebecca Scherm

In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Sometimes I think I've been too honest, and other times, too explicit. — Amanda Eliasch

But the fact of the matter is that everyone has an explicit or implicit set of ideas and beliefs as to the essential nature of the world. — M. Scott Peck

No religion,
I'm just so explicit,
I coexist in places you would never know existed. — Ab-Soul

What is known can't jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit. — Ryan Holiday

I have never written anything sexually explicit, — Lynne Cheney

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care. — William Blake

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit. — Doris Day

I have found that all of my memories seem to need a place and that a good part of what we think of as explicit memory has to do with location. — Siri Hustvedt

I've been putting out sexually explicit images of myself for years. I know this sounds bizarre, but somehow it makes me feel safer. — Annie Sprinkle

Does providing explicit grammatical information during receptive practice have an effect on L2 development? — Robert DeKeyser

There was nothing explicit between them, nothing more than that slightly open door. And yet . . . what could be more alluring? In — Jess Walter

The USA was the explicit answer to an implicit threat of war, whereas the EU was the implicit answer to explicit experiences of war. — Sergio Fabbrini

Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious. — Siri Hustvedt

Every explicit duality is an implicit unity. — Alan Watts

Women deserve the same permanent rights and explicit protections given men in the Constitution. — Carolyn Maloney

The really explicit phrase is doors of perception. — Marianne Faithfull

A great photograph needs no explanation; it functions by suggestion. There is no need to be explicit. — Mary Ellen Mark

Erotica is not porn. It's explicit romance. — Tammy-Louise Wilkins

The Gospel of John makes explicit what all the Gospels assume - that is, the cross is not a defeat, but the victory of our God. — Stanley Hauerwas

No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose — Mahatma Gandhi

He was explicit sex, personified.
I was hungered curiosity, caged.
And as long as I held onto the key, my heart would remain unscathed. — K.M. Golland

Keys meant Neil had explicit permission to be here and do what he liked. They meant he belonged. — Nora Sakavic

There is an explicit way to define what explicit is. — Noga Alon

Hope that doesn't hurt too much — Eve Masters

I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it's the kind you read with one hand. — Colleen McCullough

There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all. — E.A. Bucchianeri

To gain support in U.S. Congress and from other nations requires clarity, an acceptable mission and an explicit outcome. — Donald Rumsfeld

All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect. — Patrick Rothfuss

Yet, the main issue is not the shaping of the minds by explicit messages in the media, but the absence of a given content in the media. — Manuel Castells

The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire. — Tim Wu

Warning: This title is sexually explicit with mild bdsm. If you like it rough and spanky, this may be for you. — Tasha L. Harrison

Shtting fucking hell! I slap my hand over my lips to stop my mental explicit language from falling out of my mouth. — Jodi Ellen Malpas

Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet. — Tipper Gore

While 9 Songs is sexually explicit in the basic sense, its directness is what's most fascinating, and ultimately most moving, about it. — Stephanie Zacharek

Gentlemen, I find the law very explicit on murdering your fellow man, but there's nothing here about killing a Chinaman. Case dismissed. — Roy Bean

People have done pornographic pictures forever, but most of the people who involve themselves in explicit sexuality aren't really artists. — Robert Mapplethorpe

I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about. — M. Ward

Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong. — Gary Ackerman

A dream ... I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to be too explicit. — Mark Twain

Love lost by one moment's explicit unfairness can't be won back by trying to justify it — Lynne Reid Banks

moral anarchy has actually become something like the explicit goal of some of our most influential institutions. — Yuval Levin

Our need for certainty in an endeavor as uncertain as raising children makes explicit 'how-to-parent' strategies both seductive and dangerous. — Brene Brown

These days any self-respecting exhibition of nude photos has to have pornographically explicit images to prove that they are works of art. — Geoff Dyer

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope. — Samuel Richardson

Thus Hawkes (1975)maintained that pornography is not explicit sex, but 'uncaring sex,' but could add that '[t]o me, censorship is pornographic. — Martha Cornog

As a teacher, it is your job to make explicit whatever you though was implicit — Carol Ann Tomlinson

The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. — Wyndham Lewis

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others. — Benjamin Disraeli

Yes the sex scenes are explicit but we all love the dirty bits! — Airam

Suspense, murder, revenge, scandal; a delicious cocktail party. — Kat Kaelin

The majority of important things cannot be said outright, they cannot be made explicit. They can only be implied. — Patrick Rothfuss

explicit communiqu — Barbara W. Tuchman

I think it's very hard to be sexually explicit and erotic - though there are writers, like K. M. Soehnlein, who are just brilliant at this. — Catherine Brady