Explaining Quotes - Page 3

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

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

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

In politics, when you`re explaining, you`re losing.

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.

I've not often been a man of many words. I've never considered myself to be overly articulate. I do feel more comfortable acting something out than I do explaining something or whatever.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.