Bad is so bad, that we cannot but think good an accident; good is so good, that we feel certain that evil could be explained.
Magic is only unexplained science. Science is explained magic. When I study science, I study magic. When I study magic, I study science.
There are works of fiction which seek to explain jihadi terrorists as the militant wing of Amnesty International. I don't buy that.
It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.
The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.
My son Darrel could recite 'Straight Outta Compton' at two years old. He loved it! You can expose your kids to anything as long as you sit there and explain it to them.
As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers.
I remember thinking, in Kansas my name will be Evett - which is my middle name. I didn't want to explain to anyone how to say Em-a-yat-zee.
Who knew we had all this O.C.D. in the world? Well actually, I suppose it's pretty obvious. It explains Sudoku, doesn't it?
Kublai noticed this uncommon perception that Marco Polo has, with the idea to explain and talk about his country so vividly that he can see it.
The first dog I had was owned by an abusive couple. He was very skittish. He wouldn't let me hold him. It was explained to me that it was because of how he was treated.
Don't listen to anyone. Trust what gives you pleasure. Trust the emotions. If you love something but can't explain why, that's enough
I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.
Homo voluntatis cannot explain why some things that can be done should not be done.
I've just always liked watching people dance. I can't explain it. It used to just make me laugh.
Once you're a winner, you can give all sorts of reasons why you're a winner. Of course, you could all those same reasons to explain why a show fails.
The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.
In my view, there is an urgent need to communicate with the public and help to explain where there is consensus, and where are there doubts about the issues of sustainable development.
You take 35 degrees out of 360 degrees and call it a photo. No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium.
There's an inner feeling you get when you get in a situation to do well in a game. It's hard to explain.
I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.