Explaining famous quotes

And the venality of those Judaized is incapable of explaining anti-Semitism as a social phenomenon, we will call it the anti-Semitic theory.
-- A. C. Cuza

#Social #Explaining #Theory

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.
-- Adele

#Song #Interviews #Explaining

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

#Feelings #Explaining

If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
-- Alan Perlis

#Program #Explaining

Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.
-- Bill Gaede

#Predictions #Explaining #Performing

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

#Reality #Explaining #Not Interested

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

#Visitors #Explaining #Complex Systems

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.
-- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#Understanding #Goes On #Explaining

Stop explaining yourself. Shut up and act!
-- Craig MacDonald

#Acting #Shut Up #Explaining

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

#Years #Doe #Explaining

I wanted to put a sheet in explaining what all the songs are about, but they didn't do it.
-- Dick Dale

#Song #Sheets #Explaining

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

#Stories #Way #Explaining

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
-- Edward Steichen

#Photography #Men #Explaining

If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.
-- Eliezer Yudkowsky

#Zero #Outcomes #Explaining

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

#Teamwork #Half #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.
-- Guy Pearce

#Men #Acting #Explaining

If you are explaining, you are losing.
-- J. C. Watts

#Losing #Conservative #Explaining

In politics, when you`re explaining, you`re losing.
-- Jim Moore

#Losing #Explaining

Don't bother explaining--I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true.
-- John Brunner

#Trouble #Excuse #Explaining

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

#Conversation #Explaining #Dislike

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

#Saws #Vote #Explaining

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

#Guitar #Views #Explaining

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

#Art #Mean #Explaining

Don't waste your time explaining who you are to people who are committed to misunderstandin g you.
-- LeCrae

#People #Waste #Explaining

The less explaining you do the less people speculate.
-- M. V. Heberden

#People #Explaining

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

#Driven #Found #Explaining

A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations.
-- Mark Richard

#Defeated #Explaining #Storyteller

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

#Frogs #Explaining #Ends

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

#Theory #Explaining

God is more interested in declaring than explaining.
-- Matt Chandler

#Explaining

Friendship...is like pain. Explaining it is impossible.
-- Norma Fox Mazer

#Pain #Impossible #Explaining

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

#Want #Explaining

Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them.
-- Peter Mandelson

#Thinking #Decision #Explaining

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

#Explaining #Because I Can #Feels

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

#Territory #Explaining #Familiar

I myself do not believe in explaining anything.
-- Shel Silverstein

#Believe #Explaining

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..."
-- Will Farquarson

#Easy #Explaining #Wells

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

#Remember #Curious #Explaining

In politics, if you're explaining, you're loosing.
-- Rick Perlstein

#Explaining #Ifs

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

#Writing #Way #Explaining

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

#People #Used #Explaining

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

#Writing #Way #Explaining

I am only describing language, not explaining anything.
-- Joseph Kosuth

#Language #Explaining #Describing