Explaining Quotes

I myself do not believe in explaining anything.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

I was always annoyed by too much explaining.

During the Nuremberg trials, Oswald Pohl, an SS Lieutenant General,...is shown here explaining how Farben operated such concentration camps as Auschwitz and Buchenwald.

Teamwork is wasting half of one's time explaining to others why they are wrong.

Explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be no loss of wetlands: He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.

When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there results shapeliness.

If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.

Einstein's theory of relativity does a fantastic job for explaining big things. Quantum mechanics is fantastic for the other end of the spectrum - for small things.

Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.

I like writing in an illustrative, descriptive way. I prefer describing to rather than explaining.

Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me.

But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.

For human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque body from which words are born.

When I was 13, I asked for a guitar. And that's how I really started explaining my point of view.

The elephant smoked too much.(explaining why the keys of his piano were so yellow)

I find that everything I do is demanding, like Jack Bristow is a complicated man and I do a lot of explaining in the show, it takes a lot of energy and concentration.

I want my music to do the explaining.

Any attempt to dismiss a phenomenon that is not understood merely by explaining it as hallucination becomes irrelevant when a coherent scientific theory can be applied.

When you start explaining why something's funny or finding a formula for it I think it loses some of its funniness.

George Bush says, 'Gore's book needs a lot of explaining.' Of course, Bush says that about every book.

Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.

You can never underestimate that moment of somebody explaining your life to you, something you thought was inexplicable, through music. That was the way out of loneliness.

If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.

Leaving people to jumped conclusions is sometimes simpler than explaining a complicated truth

When I'm explaining something to you, if I'm being long-winded, and twisty in a non-productive way, I could make you feel vaguely insulted. And you'd have a right to be.

I'm used to explaining to people why my jokes were funny.

As a legislator, I saw how effective I could be by being transparent, posting and explaining all of my votes.

If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.

There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

I remember my mum explaining to me what adoption meant when I was still at primary school. 'Son,' she said to me, 'you didn't grow under my heart, you grew in it'.

On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength.

Friendship...is like pain. Explaining it is impossible.

If you have a dream , don't waste your energies explaining why.

The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable of explaining life.

At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation.

There's nothing cooler than someone explaining to you, as if it was easy, how they create antimatter. And they kept saying things like, "Well obviously you know that..."

And the venality of those Judaized is incapable of explaining anti-Semitism as a social phenomenon, we will call it the anti-Semitic theory.

... does it seem to you that it is possible to speak of Art? It would be the same as explaining love!

As for explaining mathematical phenomena it opens the question: explaining to whom? humans?, other computers?

Words are for explaining the mistakes we might have made, names are for calling when there is nothing left to say.

For Indians, images are a means of celebrating mystery and not a manner of explaining it

I don't remember explaining that I was making electronic music to anyone, but I don't remember anyone being curious about it, either.

I like explaining things, and I believe that you can do very high-level explanation on basic cable news provided you are willing to work hard enough to be a good storyteller.

I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist.

You may not be aware of this but Leonard Bernstein won another award, for explaining the music of Igor Stravinsky... to Igor Stravinsky!

I like doing movies with kids in them, and you're explaining things. They're teaching you and you're teaching them, and the audience can loop through that.

The world will very soon be divided, unless I am mistaken, into those who still go on explaining our success, and those somewhat more intelligent who are trying to explain our failure.

The more everybody knows about all aspects of the problems we face, the better off all of us will be. Less time spent explaining things means more time for coming up with creative solutions.

The best way to solve a problem? Try explaining it to somebody outside your field.