Explain Quotes
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You can't just explain a joke. Either it isn't funny, or the person just totally missed the punchline.
Cass McCombs
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I’m not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy trying to explain and be ashamed of things you think are wrong with me.
Esperanza Spalding
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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
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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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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
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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.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Some people have scripts and scripts and lots of scripts, and they change it all the time. Even though [Jean-Luc Godard] had no script, he had it all in his heart and in his brain. He can explain it to you in a way where even if you get the dialogue five minutes before in the morning and you have to shoot it later, at least you have an idea about it, because he takes his time to explain things and to do the movements with you. There was always lots of rehearsal.
Anna Karina
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Only Love can explain itself.
Rumi
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You do not have to explain every single drop of water contained in a rain barrel. You have to explain one drop-H2O. The reader will get it.
George Singleton
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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.
Ellen Langer
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You know the only rule you need to know to get on in this country? ‘Never complain, never explain.
Amanda Craig
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I've met a lot of people who are Christian, and they are all very loving, they love the idea that I am Jewish and from Israel. I think they are a little bit excited that I am Jewish from Israel who plays Jesus in The Snack. I can't explain it. But I think because Jesus was a Jew!
Aviv Alush
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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.
David Markson
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A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong
Francis Crick
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To be in the charts and hanging around with such huge names in the industry just feels like a complete privilege! I can't even explain how it feels - complete dream come true.
Anzia Yezierska
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The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.
Tom Cruise
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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.
Alfred Wegener
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Roger Federer moves like a whisper and executes like a wrecking ball. It is simply impossible to explain how he does what he does.
Nick Bollettieri
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The moment you have massive social and political commentary trying to explain a phenomenon, then you know we are no longer dealing with a strictly psychiatric question.
Norman Finkelstein
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And now German generals find it hard to explain away their retreat.
Georgy Zhukov
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If you want me to explain the picture, if you put it in reality, then the mystery goes away. The situation just catches you and you think it is absurd or mysterious and you just take the picture. You dont want to see the bare reality of what happened. I took the picture as the picture, not as the realistic story of what happened.
Eva Fuka
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Journalism - a profession whose business it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
Alfred Harmsworth
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I’m 5-10 and I know it’s not supposed to be this way, but God has blessed me tenfold. I can’t explain it any other way. It’s just a blessing.
Billy Wagner
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It is impossible to explain. But what I like most is to eat.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez