clear quotes

Since I've become a central banker, I've learned to mumblewithgreatcoherence† If Iseemundulyclear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.

- Alan Greenspan
  Address to Congress, Sep. Quotedby Jonathan Marshall in the San Francisco Chronicle, 9  Jun1995.

I worry incessantly that I might be too clear.

- Alan Greenspan
  In the NewYork Times, 25  Jun.

   The central propositions [of Descartes]†are these: There is a path that leads to the truth so surely that any one who will follow it must needs reach the goal† And there is one guiding rule by which a man mayalways find this path†give unqualified assent to no propositions but those the truth of which is so clear and distinct that they cannot be doubted.

-T(homas) H(enry) Huxley
  Lay Sermons,  Addresses, and Reviews.

Ididn't say Ididn't say it.Isaid Ididn't say Isaid it.Iwantto make that very clear.

- GeorgeW Romney
  Clarifying his policy. In the National Review,12 Dec.

A clear, attentive mind Has no meaning but that Which sees is truly seen.

- Gary Sherman Snyder
  Riprap,'Piute Creek'.

   O hark,O hear! how thin and clear And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.

-Tennyson
  The Princess, pt.4, added song, stanza 2.

Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

-James Grover Thurber
  Letter to Malcolm Cowley,11 Mar.