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No one has more than scratched the surface when it comes to understanding and explaining the miracle of the market.
— Leonard Read
As I may or may not say to the Lord on Judgment Day, "You ask a lot of questions for someone who has so much explaining to do"
— Robert Breault
Being a writer is 1% inspiration, 50% perspiration and 49% explaining you're not a millionaire like J.K.Rowling.
— Gabrielle Tozer
I don't have a great talent for explaining myself in acting because I can't explain it.
— Elaine Stritch
Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.
— Carl Sagan
The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.
— Charles C. Mann
The receptionist xeroxed my insurance card while explaining that chromotherapy isn't covered by insurance.
— Miranda July
I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
— Anita Diament
Writing has been a way of explaining to myself the things I do not understand.
— Rosario Castellanos
Words are for explaining the mistakes we might have made, names are for calling when there is nothing left to say.
— Gordon Lightfoot
A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations.
— Mark Richard
I'm not good at explaining why I walked across Afghanistan.
— Rory Stewart
Music has an immediate effect. If you want to go beyond that and look underneath, film is a good way of explaining.
— Stewart Copeland
If a theory purports to explain everything, then it is likely not explaining much at all.
— Massimo Pigliucci
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?
— Katie MacAlister
There is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Friendship ... is like pain. Explaining it is impossible.
— Norma Fox Mazer
A writer is not interested in explaining reality, he's only interested in capturing it.
— Brendan Kennelly
In politics, if you're explaining, you're loosing.
— Rick Perlstein
Does it seem to you that it is possible to speak of Art? It would be the same as explaining love!
— Eleanora Duse
Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene.
— Fred W. Friendly
For Indians, images are a means of celebrating mystery and not a manner of explaining it
— Jamake Highwater
Percy, explaining things to you is like lecturing a gerbil.
— Rick Riordan
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
If an ontology predicts almost nothing it ends up explaining almost nothing, and there's no reason to believe it.
— Sean Carroll
Philosophy is not in the business of explaining anything. Actual occasions explain what happened, not philosophy.
— Bruno Latour
To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation.
— Yves Klein
Take every penny you have set aside for aid for Tanzania and spend it in the UK, explaining to people the facts and causes of poverty.
— Julius Nyerere
The gaping trunk looked like the mouth of a village idiot who was explaining that he didn't know anything about anything.
— Kurt Vonnegut
I myself do not believe in explaining anything.
— Shel Silverstein
Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.
— Bill Gaede
Football isn't nuclear physics, but it's not so simple that you can make it simple. It takes some explaining to get it across.
— John Madden
When driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.
— Maria Edgeworth
We must not dwell on what we were in our salad days when soup days steam now upon the table!
— Catherynne M Valente
The more we feel compelled to keep explaining ourselves, the less like others we become.
— Jennifer Finney Boylan
I am only describing language, not explaining anything.
— Joseph Kosuth
A true King would not waste time justifying or explaining. He would simply state his will.
— Stephen King
A good teacher is one who can understand those who are not very good at explaining, and explain to those who are not very good at understanding ...
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Your inmost happening is worth your whole love, that is what you must somehow work at, and not lose too much time and too much courage in explaining
— Rainer Maria Rilke
The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.
— Scott McCloud
You aren't explaining it very well." "Maybe," I said. "Or maybe you aren't learning it very well.
— Jim Butcher
If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.
— Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
It was really hard explaining the Web before people just got used to it because they didn't even have words like click and jump and page.
— Tim Berners-Lee
Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.
— Edward Gorey
Stop explaining yourself. Shut up and act!
— Craig MacDonald
If you're explaining, you're losing.
— Ronald Reagan
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— Carol Drinkwater
I have always enjoyed explaining physics. In fact it's more than just enjoyment: I need to explain physics.
— Leonard Susskind
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— Ron Chernow
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
Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence?
— Edmund Morgan
People have to find ways of explaining the work.
— Andres Serrano
When I was 13, I asked for a guitar. And that's how I really started explaining my point of view.
— Katy Perry
Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell.(in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy) — Joseph Brodsky
The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders.
— Leo Burnett
There's no explaining love. It stands by itself; it makes mistakes and struggles on its own.
— Margaret Mazzantini
If you are explaining, you are losing.
— J. C. Watts
Reading snow is like listening to music. To describe what you've read is like explaining music in writing.
— Peter Hoeg
It's hard talking about acting, in a way, because it's like explaining a joke: I do think it loses something in the telling.
— Martin Freeman
History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.
— Donald Kagan
The operational word in every competent defense is attack. If you're explaining and defending, you're losing.
— Gerry Spence
We are ultimately at home in the world not through dominating or explaining or appreciating, but through caring and being cared for.
— Milton Mayeroff
I don't remember explaining that I was making electronic music to anyone, but I don't remember anyone being curious about it, either.
— Nicolas Jaar
I didn't particularly feel like explaining myself to eighteen bewildered people.
— Shannon A. Thompson
When you start explaining why something's funny or finding a formula for it I think it loses some of its funniness.
— Betty White
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.
— Saint Augustine
