Explain Quotes
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I think cinema is good for incarnating the parts of the mind that you cannot explain.”
Anne Fontaine -
Documentaries shouldn't just reflect the world: they should try and explain why reality is like it is.
Adam Curtis
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I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it.
Whittaker Chambers -
You know how questing goes. You can’t explain it to anyone else; it would be like telling them your dreams.
Catherynne M. Valente -
Wrrite, wrrite, Lapochka, why you don’t wrrite?” and assure me that a horse, even with four legs, stumbles. I found it difficult to explain to her what I was writing. “It’s about Colley Cibber,” I said. “He was an actor, playwright and poet.” “Also poet?” Varya asked suspiciously. “Who he? Pushkin?”
Bel Kaufman -
I've had experiences in my life that leave no doubt in my mind about the fact that God exists. I'm quite willing to debate people who don't think so because I want them to explain to me how did our solar system get so organized and how is the universe so complex and yet well-organized that we can predict 70 years hence when a comet is coming?
Benjamin Carson -
You never question the truth of something until you have to explain it to a skeptic.
Donald Miller -
To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain.
Brassaï
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If I could explain, I wouldn't need to dance!
Isadora Duncan -
I don't know what genre you would put us into, and I'm always telling people that. When I'm trying to explain In This Moment's sound to them, all I can say is that its diverse-sounding, with influences such as metalcore's breakdowns, metal in general and some melodic rock.
Maria Brink -
Well, as anyone who actually writes knows, if you sit down and are prepared, then the ideas come. There's a lot of different ways people explain that, but, you know, I find that if I sit down and I prepare myself, generally things get done.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party -
When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs to be done to stop it, they call you a communist.
George Monbiot -
The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.
Remy de Gourmont -
If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!
Adolf Hitler
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There's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I can't explain that dividing line between nothing and something that happens within a song, where you have absolutely nothing, and then suddenly you have something. It's like the origin of the universe.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party -
I have learned that some people who look fine are more crippled than I am, by fears they can’t explain. Other people are held back by shyness, or anger. In making friends, I see the way some people handicap themselves. I believe there are choices each of us make every single day. We can dwell on our limitations or we can push ourselves past them.
Cammie McGovern -
The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.
Alan Sillitoe -
Never explain yourself to anyone. The person who likes you will not need it. The person who dislikes it will not believe it.
Ziad K. Abdelnour -
Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?
Mahatma Gandhi -
I am less desirous to explain phenomena than to establish their existence.
Adolphe Quetelet
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When I find a woman attractive, I have nothing at all to say. I simply watch her smile. Intellectuals take apart her face in order to explain it bit by bit, but they no longer see the smile.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
A high-school teacher, after all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what sort of world they are living in, and to defend, if possible, the part their elders are playing in it.
Emile Capouya -
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
Isaac Newton -
My ideas sometimes get the better of me. Before I clearly explain one, another comes to mind and seizes my attention.
Ellen Langer