Explaining Quotes

Don't waste your time explaining who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.

Stop explaining yourself. Shut up and act!

Writing has been a way of explaining to myself the things I do not understand.

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

I am only describing language, not explaining anything.

I like telling the story in a visual way. I don't like explaining a lot in dialogue.

The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.

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

God is more interested in declaring than explaining.

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

If you are explaining, you are losing.

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

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

I don't want to spend my life explaining myself. You either get it, or you don't.

I myself do not believe in explaining anything.

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

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

I was always annoyed by too much explaining.

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

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

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

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.

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

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..."

I want my music to do the explaining.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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!

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

If a theory purports to explain everything, then it is likely not explaining much at all.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.