Explain Quotes
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I don't think I'll ever be able to fully explain the way that the Velvet Underground's records opened a door in my head. But it has something to do with Lou Reed as a mythic figure: a person who fitted no category, who defied limits and trends and definitions.
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You know how questing goes. You can’t explain it to anyone else; it would be like telling them your dreams.
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It’s one thing to see yourself going across the ticker…But to take someone else down, that’s another. I really can’t even explain that pain.
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Once, somebody asked Robert Schumann to explain the meaning of a certain piece of music he had just played on the piano. What Robert Schumann did was sit back down at the piano and play the piece of music again.
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I can't say or explain anything. Pictures don’t come from your head but from life... I am always looking for life. All that escapes thought or will-power.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.
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One of the biggest problems for beginning writers is this need to over-explain.
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My ideas sometimes get the better of me. Before I clearly explain one, another comes to mind and seizes my attention.
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When you work with new people, I think that it throws all of the matters into relief, because you have to explain yourself every time. It's like crossing a new border. They want to see your documents.
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HE was standing across the street, staring at her with a look of shock and dismay. One look in Oliver's eyes and she knew he knew. But how? How could he have known? The'd been so careful to keep their love a secret. The grief etched all over his face was too much to bear. Schuyler felt the words catch in her throat as she crossed the stree to stand in front of him. "Ollie...it's not..." Oliver shot her a look of pure hatred, turned on his heel and began to run away. "OLIVER, please,let me explain.
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Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?
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There are things which are without answers, and there is nobody who can explain them. Either we feel them and sense them, or not. Sometimes we just give up and carry on.
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You can't just explain a joke. Either it isn't funny, or the person just totally missed the punchline.
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I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.
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If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!
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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.
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A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong
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And now German generals find it hard to explain away their retreat.
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There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
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You know the only rule you need to know to get on in this country? ‘Never complain, never explain.
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In the whole of geophysics there is probably hardly another law of such clarity and reliability as this—that there are two preferential levels for the world’s surface which occur in alternation side by side and are represented by the continents and the ocean floors, respectively. It is therefore very surprising that scarcely anyone has tried to explain this law.
