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I want my music to do the explaining. -- Demi Lovato
I myself do not believe in explaining anything. -- Shel Silverstein
Photography is a major force in explaining man to man. -- Edward Steichen
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. -- Ambrose Bierce
The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders. -- Leo Burnett
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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. -- George Saunders
I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth. -- Martin Luther
I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does. -- David Bowie
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man. -- Edward Steichen
Friendship...is like pain. Explaining it is impossible. -- Norma Fox Mazer
Explaining a miracle doesn't make it any less of a miracle. -- Athan Fletcher
Explaining how much I you is like explaining how the water tastes from the drops of the rain -- Chief Justice Moalusi Tlotlo
Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else. -- Edward Gorey
I furnished the body that was needed to sit in the defendant's chair.[Explaining his role in the Scopes Monkey Trial.] -- John T. Scopes
Explaining why he was forced to cut a utility player: You just got caught in a position where you have no position. -- Sparky Anderson
It is better to be devoured by lions than to be eaten by dogs. Explaining why his Northwestern teams played difficult schedules. -- Alex Agase
Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it. -- Mark Twain
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. -- Alyson Noel
Explaining the moment of connection between a reader and book to someone who's never experienced it is like trying to describe sex to a virgin. -- Sara Nelson
Explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be no loss of wetlands: He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech. -- Richard Darman
Explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he helped arrange a private interview for them with First Lady Nancy Reagan: I didn't accept it. I received it. -- Richard V. Allen
Playing music well is difficult, yet the world has an abundance of fine performers. Explaining a little about music is easier, yet few do it well. Those who can do both supremely form a tiny club, whose honorary chairman is the conductor Michael Tilson Thomas. -- Justin Davidson
If you're explaining, you're losing. -- Ronald Reagan
If you are explaining, you are losing. -- J. C. Watts
If you have a dream , don't waste your energies explaining why. -- Paulo Coelho
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing. -- H. L. Mencken
If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them. -- Peter Mandelson
Effective teaching involves explaining to our children what they're already observing in our lives by example. -- C. J. Mahaney
Don't waste your time explaining who you are to people who are committed to misunderstandin g you. -- lecrae
I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me. -- Robert Smith
As a legislator, I saw how effective I could be by being transparent, posting and explaining all of my votes. -- Justin Amash
The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors. -- Charles C. Mann
Debates go on to this day about what caused the Great Depression. Economics is not very good at explaining swings in economic activity. -- Eugene Fama
If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do. -- Kobe Bryant
There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know. -- Maya Angelou
Einstein's theory of relativity does a fantastic job for explaining big things. Quantum mechanics is fantastic for the other end of the spectrum - for small things. -- Brian Greene
The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity. -- Richard Dawkins
Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
I believe things happen that can't be explained, but so many people seem intent on explaining them. Everyone has an answer for them. Either aliens or things from the spirit world. -- Harold Ramis
The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explaining a new class of facts are already contained in our system. In false theories, the contrary is the case. -- William Whewell
My record was so bad that I was first rejected by the Peace Corps as a poor risk and possible troublemaker and was accepted as a volunteer only after a great deal of explaining and arguing. -- Paul Theroux
If you wish to fault the administration, it is that we didn't have a clear picture and we probably didn't do as clear a job explaining that we did not have a clear picture until days later... -- Hillary Clinton
Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do. -- Donald Knuth
I realized going back and writing and explaining in details the difficulties I had lived actually became emotional again. It's like therapy but sometimes therapy can be painful. But it's part of life and part of the autobiography so I'll have to finish it sooner or later. -- Jenni Rivera
I don't feel that I'm explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I'm not trying to be a mirror, showing them what's really going on the world. All I'm trying to do is think of stuff that's funny, just like when I'm kidding around with my friends. -- Steven Wright
I'm not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul. I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me? -- Carson McCullers
The first day I walked into prison, and he slammed that door, I knew the magnitude of the decision that I made, and the poor judgment, and what I allowed to happen to the animals. And, you know, its no way of explaining the hurt and the guilt that I felt. And that was the reason I cried so many nights. -- Michael Vick
The first day I walked into prison, and he slammed that door, I knew the magnitude of the decision that I made, and the poor judgment, and what I allowed to happen to the animals. And, you know, it's no way of explaining the hurt and the guilt that I felt. And that was the reason I cried so many nights. -- Michael Vick
Some of the tactics that are used by Foxconn and other companies throughout China is, if you are late, if you violate one of the small rules, some of the punishment is that you have to copy down quotations from the chairman of Foxconn: you have to write out confessions explaining why you were late and promising never to do it again. -- Charles Duhigg
I don't have a regular happy family like most people. My parents are separated; my dad married someone else and so did my mom. All my siblings are from my parents' other marriages. So yes, it is complicated, and I don't like talking about it or explaining this to everybody. But all this doesn't stop us from being close to each other. -- Shahid Kapoor
Stop explaining yourself. Shut up and act! -- Craig MacDonald
In politics, if you're explaining, you're loosing. -- Rick Perlstein
Sometimes distance was easier than acting, or explaining. -- Laura Kaye
I am only describing language, not explaining anything. -- Joseph Kosuth
God is more interested in declaring than explaining. -- Matt Chandler
I was always annoyed by too much explaining. -- Clint Eastwood
The less explaining you do the less people speculate. -- M. V. Heberden
You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself. -- Peter Garrett
In politics, when you`re explaining, you`re losing. -- Jim Moore
But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
It was easier than explaining DiMaggio's use as a metaphor. -- Paul Simon
I'm used to explaining to people why my jokes were funny. -- Gilbert Gottfried
When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining. -- Yoko Ono
I didn't particularly feel like explaining myself to eighteen bewildered people. -- Shannon A. Thompson
If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another. -- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
I remember my father explaining, "A capitalist system is a dog-eat-dog system." -- Frances Fox Piven
It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things. -- Myrtle Reed
Leaving people to jumped conclusions is sometimes simpler than explaining a complicated truth -- Gayle Forman
Mama always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them. -- Tom Hanks
Stop explaining to others, people will only understand from their level of discernment. -- Abhishek Shukla
Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining. -- Bill Gaede
To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation. -- Yves Klein
Fear and bigotry don't need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes. -- Eileen Wilks
It's very hard not to be condescending when you're explaining something to an idiot. -- Bill Maher
Followers of Jesus do well to spend more time engaging him than explaining him. -- Ron Brackin
...there is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Teamwork is wasting half of one's time explaining to others why they are wrong. -- Georges Wolinski
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up. -- Alan Perlis
I like writing in an illustrative, descriptive way. I prefer describing to rather than explaining. -- Iron & Wine
We need people out talking about the President, explaining, agreeing with and praising his actions. -- Robert Teeter
As for explaining mathematical phenomena it opens the question: explaining to whom? humans?, other computers? -- Gil Kalai
A writer is not interested in explaining reality, heâ??s only interested in capturing it. -- Brendan Kennelly
Fear and bigotry donâ??t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes. -- Eileen Wilks
The best way to solve a problem? Try explaining it to somebody outside your field. -- Jonah Lehrer
The elephant smoked too much.(explaining why the keys of his piano were so yellow) -- Victor Borge
Writing has been a way of explaining to myself the things I do not understand. -- Rosario Castellanos
I don't want to spend my life explaining myself. You either get it, or you don't. -- Frank Zappa
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I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying. -- Anita Diament
Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell. (in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy) -- Joseph Brodsky
Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. -- Ambrose Bierce
Don't bother explaining--I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true. -- John Brunner
I don't have a great talent for explaining myself in acting because I can't explain it. -- Elaine Stritch
For Indians, images are a means of celebrating mystery and not a manner of explaining it -- Jamake Highwater
If a theory purports to explain everything, then it is likely not explaining much at all. -- Massimo Pigliucci
Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world. -- Carl Sagan
Complaining is a vain way of explaining pain without gaining relief. Keep complains distances away from you. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Science is about explaining the world, and religion is about interpreting it. There shouldn't be any conflict. -- Paul Davies
People are self-centered to a nauseous degree. They will keep on about themselves while I'm explaining me. -- Piet Pieterszoon Hein
A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations. -- Mark Richard
The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me. -- Scott McCloud
I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant - just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant. -- Ben Stein
History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story. -- Donald Kagan
This is one of those times when explaining a feeling cannot measure up to actually having the feeling -- Adriana Trigiani
when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant. -- Maria Edgeworth
I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist. -- Richard Dawkins
No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He's just explaining the situation to her, but he's all over her every chance he gets! Kureno! Touching Tohru!!! -- Natsuki Takaya
A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth ... -- Dorothy Nevill
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The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another. -- Josh Billings
I wanted to put a sheet in explaining what all the songs are about, but they didn't do it. -- Dick Dale
I have done conferences explaining that cloud is a bad idea. It's putting all your eggs in one basket. -- Michael Demon Calce
George Bush says, 'Gore's book needs a lot of explaining.' Of course, Bush says that about every book. -- Bill Maher
When I was 13, I asked for a guitar. And that's how I really started explaining my point of view. -- Katy Perry
Ayn Rand more than anyone else did a fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism. -- Paul Ryan
It's easy to shortcut when you get busy explaining the why's of the world, but it's very important to try. -- Keith Rabois
No one has more than scratched the surface when it comes to understanding and explaining the miracle of the market. -- Leonard Read

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