Explain Quotes
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You can't really explain why you get on well with someone. It's instinctive.
Alexandre Lacazette -
I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it.
Whittaker Chambers
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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 -
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 know how questing goes. You can’t explain it to anyone else; it would be like telling them your dreams.
Catherynne M. Valente -
If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!
Adolf Hitler -
I think cinema is good for incarnating the parts of the mind that you cannot explain.”
Anne Fontaine -
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 -
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 -
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 -
You never question the truth of something until you have to explain it to a skeptic.
Donald Miller -
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 -
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
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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 -
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 -
The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.
Alan Sillitoe -
I am less desirous to explain phenomena than to establish their existence.
Adolphe Quetelet -
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 -
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
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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 more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.
Eugene Ionesco -
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