Explaining Quotes - Page 2

when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.

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

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

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.

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

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

I want my music to do the explaining.

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

This is one of those times when explaining a feeling cannot measure up to actually having the feeling

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

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

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

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

I had a clear idea about what time is till I was asked to explain it and ceased to understand it altogether as soon as I began explaining it.

A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations.

Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell. (in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy)

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.

When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.

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

In politics, if you're explaining, you're loosing.

Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them.

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

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

The less explaining you do the less people speculate.

The highest wisdom has but one science-the science of the whole-the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.