I remember my father explaining, "A capitalist system is a dog-eat-dog system." — Frances Fox Piven Copy Share Image
Without explaining why, and, most of all, without naming other authors or books, I can only say my novels are influenced by… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
I have always enjoyed explaining physics. In fact it's more than just enjoyment: I need to explain physics. — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
Explaining why you love someone is like describing what water taste like, COMPLETELY UNDEFINED. — Katrin_o28 Copy Share Image
“You are capable of explaining everything you feel. Why don't you go to the Emperor and talk to him?” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining… — Kobe Bryant Copy Share Image
You have everything. A family, a great job, a lot of people who look up to you. You've got a place to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they… — Reeve Carney Copy Share Image
Fiction is often a much-needed step back that gives you the distance to see things more clearly; it's very often better at… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
Explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he helped arrange a private interview… — Richard V. Allen Copy Share Image
The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Her one drink had Cecilia giggling and talking and she was explaining that animals had souls too. Nobody challenged her opinion. It… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I was reminding myself of the one basic rule for experts on females: confine yourself absolutely to explaining why she did what… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“Explaining my love for you would be like trying to describe colours to a blind man.” I pour my heart out to… — LP Lovell Copy Share Image
I find that everything I do is demanding, like Jack Bristow is a complicated man and I do a lot of explaining… — Victor Garber Copy Share Image
There is a total incompatibility between the joy of reading, a vagabond experience, and the experience of reading in order to answer… — Rubem Alves Copy Share Image
Whoa, Rebecca," Talia said smiling even wider, "Walking on the wild side, are we?" Raisa seemed to think the situation needed more… — Cinda Williams Chima Copy Share Image
When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I have prayed for new men, fiery, reckless men, possessed of uncontrollably youthful passion-these lit by the Spirit of God. I have… — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image
I have this fantasy that the second movie would begin with a brief statement by all of the young actors who had… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“Living in this skin is hard and painful, most of the times, because I never volunteered to take this on. The daily… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
If it were possible to transfer the methods of physical or of biological science directly to the study of man, the transfer… — Leonard Bloomfield Copy Share Image
Looking at the line-up of speakers at the (Democratic National) Convention, I have developed the 7-11 challenge: I will quit making fun… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
I tell my students that when you write, you should pretend you’re writing the best letter you ever wrote to the smartest… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I wanted to put a sheet in explaining what all the songs are about, but they didn't do it. — Dick Dale Copy Share Image
Writing has been a way of explaining to myself the things I do not understand. — Rosario Castellanos Copy Share Image
I don't think it's the court's perceived role to do some explaining of a political nature. — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I have to keep explaining to people that screen kissing isn't quite the same; it's close, but it isn't quite the same… — Margot Robbie Copy Share Image
The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me. — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation. — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
I don't want to spend my life explaining myself. You either get it, or you don't. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Music has an immediate effect. If you want to go beyond that and look underneath, film is a good way of explaining. — Stewart Copeland Copy Share Image
You do not interrupt a man when he is explaining his master plan after having been soundly defeated. Don't you watch any… — Katie MacAlister Copy Share Image
Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining. — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
Don't waste your time explaining who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you. — LeCrae Copy Share Image
It's hard talking about acting, in a way, because it's like explaining a joke: I do think it loses something in the… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene. — Fred W. Friendly Copy Share Image
I like writing in an illustrative, descriptive way. I prefer describing to rather than explaining. — Iron & Wine Copy Share Image
Telling someone why you love them is like explaining what water tastes like... — Camilia Copy Share Image
