Explain Quotes

The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world.

One of the primary motivations for the series is that I never really felt that I was a person who could explain verbally what I thought all that well.

It was Jung who first said to explain the symbol as if talking to a man from mars who knew nothing about our life on earth.

And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course. Not my fault. They taught it at 8 o'clock in the morning. And there is absolutely nothing you can learn out of one bloodshot eye.

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

Perhaps the mistake I made at the start of my mandate is not understanding the symbolic dimension of the president's role and not being solemn enough in my acts. A mistake for which I would like to apologise or explain myself and which I will not make again. Now, I know the job.

They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good.

I'm interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life, and part of the process of being honest is - in my mind - talking about the idea that you're watching a movie. You're sitting here watching a movie. And I like that. It appeals to me intellectually, and also in a way I can't even explain.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

I really try not to read the tennis articles, because a lot of times they're guessing at how a player is feeling, and I like to keep myself kind of open minded about how I'm feeling, rather than have someone else explain to me what's going on.

Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.

Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf.

I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

Because, you know, it's never a hard work when you enjoy yourself. Look, I've been here since 57 years, and I don't have to explain why I've stayed so long. I always enjoyed it.

Never apologize. Never explain. Just get the thing done, and let them howl.

A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do.

Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color.

You explain how it went, and as far as you can figure out how it got that way.

Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten.

I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.

In the United States women develop MS at approximately twice the rate men do, and no one can explain why women are affected most often from the waist down.

Let me explain what I do here. I don't want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary.

Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.

There's no excuse, it's just an opportunity that presented in a limited way and that happened and as soon as the press rang me I didn't deny it I just said 'that's it' and I had to go home and explain it.

We live in a country where John Lennon takes eight bullets, Yoko Ono is walking right beside him and not one hits her. Explain that to me!