Explaining Quotes
Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell. (in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy)
A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations.
If a theory purports to explain everything, then it is likely not explaining much at all.
I have done conferences explaining that cloud is a bad idea. It's putting all your eggs in one basket.
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.
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.
For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.
It is better to be devoured by lions than to be eaten by dogs. Explaining why his Northwestern teams played difficult schedules.
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.
Explaining that I'm faced with a choice between being with the love of my life, or saving four lives that were never meant to end.
The minute I spend any energy defending myself, explaining myself, or in the worst case scenario, trying to please those who are criticizing me, I will, you know, just fall off a cliff.
Rowing was not simple for me. I nodded whenever the instructor made a point, as if I understood, but I could as easily have assembled the space shuttle as have repeated the moves she was explaining.
I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant - just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant.
The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.
The genius of a man capable of explaining religion seems to me to be of a higher order than that of a founder of religion. And that is the glory to which I aspire.
Your anatomy is a mystery that nobody bothers explaining to us. Even when we think we have mastered one woman's body, every body is different.
Most good evangelical Study Bibles have more in common than people sometimes realize. All of them are committed to explaining the Bible to lay readers.
I had a horrible feeling my leg was broken. If it wasn’t, it had a lot of explaining to do.
I wanted to put a sheet in explaining what all the songs are about, but they didn't do it.
A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth.
I don't have a great talent for explaining myself in acting because I can't explain it.
When it comes to social issues, Republicans dont just need to be more empathetic. They also need to be more emphatic in explaining to voters what they believe, and why.
It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual double standards that implies).
The world gets more like Disneyland every day, and it's the same the other way round. I can't explain what I know. Try explaining RED to a DOG and see how fast he gets bored.
I was always explaining why my term papers were never on time. I think that's where I got my acting training!
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.
Mama was always saying I was a brain snob, that I didn't like people who didn't think. I didn't know if that was snobby. Who wanted to walk around explaining everything to people all the time?
It is often stated that when an Angel descends to the earth, it brings with it a part of the light of the heavens, thus perhaps explaining the strong association of white to represent that light.
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.
My earliest memories are of my father explaining to me the American Dream and how he expected me to do better than he did.
Don't bother explaining--I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true.
Science is wonderful at explaining what science is wonderful at explaining, but beyond that it tends to look for its car keys where the light is good.
The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another.
In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be the economists who explain competition.
Fiction is often a much-needed step back that gives you the distance to see things more clearly; it's very often better at explaining why events happened as opposed to just what happened.
You do not interrupt a man when he is explaining his master plan after having been soundly defeated. Don't you watch any James Bond Movies?
It's easy to shortcut when you get busy explaining the why's of the world, but it's very important to try.
Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as it is, telling how other events may be achieved or avoided.
The highest wisdom has but one science-the science of the whole-the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.
No one has more than scratched the surface when it comes to understanding and explaining the miracle of the market.
Needless to say, banks and bondholders do not want to promote any arguments explaining the limits to how much can be paid without pushing economies into depression.
He's just explaining the situation to her, but he's all over her every chance he gets! Kureno! Touching Tohru!!!
As the old fisherman remarked after explaining the various ways to attach a frog to a hook, it's all the same to the frog.
