Best 64 quotes in «explaining quotes» category

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

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

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

A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth.

A writer is not interested in explaining reality, he’s only interested in capturing it.

Don't bother explaining--I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true.

Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as it is, telling how other events may be achieved or avoided.

Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.

He's just explaining the situation to her, but he's all over her every chance he gets! Kureno! Touching Tohru!!!

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

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.

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

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

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

If you are explaining, you are losing.

I had a horrible feeling my leg was broken. If it wasn’t, it had a lot of explaining to do.

I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.

If you're explaining, you're losing.

In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about.

I remember my father explaining, "A capitalist system is a dog-eat-dog system.

I think of my job on television as explaining things.

I never thought of myself as explaining cats in general. I simply viewed the cats I have known as characters in my life, often as quirky and complex as the humans with whom I have spent time.

It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things.

It's very hard not to be condescending when you're explaining something to an idiot.

I am only describing language, not explaining anything.

Stop explaining yourself. Shut up and act!

... I think that I was too self-centered to ever develop good skills as a peacemaker. In my younger days, I assumed that it was because I was smarter than everyone else, with no patience for explaining things in short words for mouthbreathers who just didn't get it.

Mama always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them.

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

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.

The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.

I wanted to put a sheet in explaining what all the songs are about, but they didn't do it.

No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains.

Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.

The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.

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...

To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation.

There is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.

We have never recognized that Iran lives in a dangerous neighborhood. And it's not surprising that they want some protection. We have not been forthcoming about explaining a security relationship for the region, in which Iran can feel secure and thus maybe willing to do something.

The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.

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.

When your child is very young, you must protect him from doing harm to himself and others, then later by precept, explaining to him what is going to be for his eventual happiness.

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

Without explaining why, and, most of all, without naming other authors or books, I can only say my novels are influenced by love and death.

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

Annie clouded up. For a second, he thought she was going to erupt, and flinched. She saw that...and got control of herself with an visible effort. She took three deep breaths, each longer than the last, and her features became serene. All at once it seemed totally clear to Mike that she was right and he was nuts - that his ingenius theory was nonsense, childish, fantasty bullshit. His conviction evaporated, and he was ashamed. He felt his cheeks grow hot, groped for words with which to backtrack - "I have to admit I have no better explanation for the the facts," Annie said slowly. Again, Mike did an emotional instant 180. "Holy shit -" She held up a hand. "I am going to think now. Very hard, for a long time. You will be as quiet as possible while I do." She got up from the computer, went to the bed, and lay down. "Think yourself, or read, or play games with the headphones on, or go Topside if you like." She clasped her hands on her belly, closed her eyes and appeared to go to sleep

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

In love, nothing exists between heart and heart. Speech is born out of longing, True description from the real taste. The one who tastes, knows; the one who explains, lies. How can you describe the true form of Something In whose presence you are blotted out? And in whose being you still exist? And who lives as a sign for your journey?

I’m tired of justifying why I love someone. I’m done with the explaining.

It was much easier to explain the veil than to answer questions about the wounds.