Quotes of: Explain Keyword

A rule to live by: I won't use anything I can't explain in five minutes.

Phil Crosby

Followers of Jesus do well to spend more time engaging him than explaining him.

Ron Brackin

No one ever taught me and I can't teach anyone. If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it?

Red Grange

Kubrick never explained the ending to us, or what his intentions were. He didn't intend for it to be a predictable film.

Keir Dullea

I can't explain it, but spiritually it makes sense - though I don't understand how it does make sense.

Kevin McDonald

Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights?

Mercedes McCambridge

The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.

Roberto Unger

This explains why, whenever a person says sie to me, I generally try to kill him, if a stranger.

Mark Twain

He explained how ridiculous the clowning was, and there and then I decided to settle down and play seriously.

Mary Lou Williams

I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?

Jean Cocteau

Woody Allen said that 95% of history is explained as a man trying to impress a woman. And that's true in my life.

Mitt Romney

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

Peter L. Berger

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

Oscar Wilde

Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.

A. S. Byatt

Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explain whales?

Charles Saatchi

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

Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination.

John Cameron

Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.

Jacques Delors

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

William Arthur Ward