Explaining Quotes

322 quotes by 298 authors

I believe things happen that can't be explained, but so many people seem intent on explaining them. Everyone has an answer for them. Either aliens… — Harold Ramis
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I myself do not believe in explaining anything. — Shel Silverstein
Academic experts may not be good at doing what they are experts in themselves, but they are good at explaining the subject matter to others.… — Simon Sinek
I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me. — Robert Smith
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth… — Edward Steichen
Photography is a major force in explaining man to man. — Edward Steichen
I don't have a great talent for explaining myself in acting because I can't explain it. — Elaine Stritch
If you are explaining, you are losing. — J C Watts
The Republican Party is terrific at determining how a program will impact the federal budget, but we're not nearly as good as the Democrats in… — J C Watts
I don't feel that I'm explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I'm not trying to be a mirror, showing them what's really going… — Steven Wright
Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else. — Edward Gorey
I'm not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something… — Carson McCullers
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth… — Leo Tolstoy
Mom and I were walking onteh beach and I was explaining to her how I wantd to "GET OVER all my INSECURITIES" and "La La...… — Sabrina Ward Harrison
If you give orders and explain nothing, you might get obedience, but you'll get no creativity. If you tell them your purpose, then when your… — Orson Scott Card
This time I m not going to tell you a story. I'll just say that insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas. It's as… — Paulo Coelho
Only yesterday I was no different than them, yet I was saved. I am explaining to you the way of life of a people who… — Khalil Gibran
Aureliano not only understood by then, he also lived his brotherâ€™s experiences as something of his own, for on one occasion when the latter was… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
[The Head of Radio Three] had been ensnared by the Music Director of the college and a Professor of Philosophy. These two were busy explaining… — Douglas Adams

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