Top 282 Explicit Quotes & Sayings

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

I love creating models and coming up with explicit structures I can play with.

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

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

Despite explicit warnings, the consequences of the invasion were underestimated.

Why is it okay to write a work of literary fiction where horrible, explicit things happen, where you can't write a book of humor where silly, explicit things are happening?

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.

I'm not sure I necessarily have explicit messages.

Most of my saucy comments are from gay guys. Some of them are pretty explicit in the things they say, especially on Twitter.

As a Christian, part of my obligation is to alleviate suffering. Explicit recognition of that in the Methodist tradition is one reason I'm comfortable in this church.

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

It's true, there aren't many explicit references to Canada in my book. And not many explicit references to the U.S., either. I try to fill my poems with enough real, observed detail that the poems create a believable world - but I don't write poems for the sake of telling my own story. My life is not important or interesting enough to warrant that kind of documentary. Instead I try to use my experience as a way of understanding situations that are common to many people. I want readers to project their own lives onto my poems.

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.

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

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

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions.

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

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

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

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit

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

From the explicit prohibition against the destruction of fruit trees, our sages deduced that it is all the more forbidden to destroy the fruits themselves.

Writers of color are given certain messages - explicit or implicit - about what they're allowed to write about or what will be successful if they write about it. And white writers are given another set of implicit and, sometimes, explicit messages.

I see explicit covers on magazines, and they're getting even more explicit, and it's like, Are women being empowered, or is this just what sells magazines? Are they feeling pressured, or have they really come into themselves and are saying, 'I am woman, hear me roar?'

While tacit knowledge can be possessed by itself, explicit knowledge must rely on being tacitly understood and applied. Hence all knowledge is either tacit or rooted in tacit knowledge. A wholly explicit knowledge is unthinkable.

There is an explicit way to define what explicit is.

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

Marathon runners set explicit goals.

I have never written anything sexually explicit.

In a really good, closely matched situation, the style of the boxer is every bit as explicit and specific to him as a painter's hand.

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

In terms of what is expressed, antinatalism is a strong presence, not always explicit, in what I write.

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

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

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

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

I like the concept of shooting beautiful, aesthetic, cinematographic pieces, and still allowing them to be explicit

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

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.

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

We do not see everything in the environment in the complete, totally resolved, explicit character of the photograph. We, in fact, prioritize our seeing.

It was only with the emergence of the Conceptualist approaches of the late 1960s that the opposition between artists using photography and photographers became explicit.

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

There are more and more adult subjects with explicit language or explicit scenes... Yes, I feel there should be a category for such films so that instead of cutting it, censoring it or deleting a few scenes we can show it in its entirety.

I see explicit covers on magazines, and they're getting even more explicit, and it's like, Are women being empowered, or is this just what sells magazines? Are they feeling pressured, or have they really come into themselves and are saying, 'I am woman, hear me roar?

Codes and signals are as important as explicit messages, and the two are linked. The bore pressing someone to tell them 'where they're really from' will see themselves as different to the aggressive stranger barking at someone to 'get back to their own country,' but the subconscious, if not explicit, message is the same.

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

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

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

The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.

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

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.

Service is running for public office with the explicit and limited goal of serving your neighbors.

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

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

An axiomatic system comprises axioms and theorems and requires a certain amount of hand-eye coordination before it works. A formal system comprises an explicit list of symbols, an explicit set of rules governing their cohabitation, an explicit list of axioms, and, above all, an explicit list of rules explicitly governing the steps that the mathematician may take in going from assumptions to conclusions. No appeal to meaning nor to intuition. Symbols lose their referential powers; inferences become mechanical.

Every explicit duality is an implicit unity.

I am comfortable talking about sex scenes and stuff, but to me, when it's physically explicit, I do feel prudish and uncomfortable.

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

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.