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Quotes About Explain

Socrates, and politicians. I took a shot. You're right—no matter how much we explain, assholes like that lawyer
~ James Patterson
It's tricky to ask a filmmaker to explain his own work; usually we're the least qualified to make sense of what we've done, unfortunately, because of the tunnel vision required to create anything over four years.
~ Stephen Gaghan
Respect should be found in your own heart and never demanded, sacraficed, begged for or negotiated. If you have to explain why you deserve it then you never had it.
~ Shannon L. Alder
In a startup, in the early days, it can be hard to explain what you do.
~ Trip Adler
Chasing is in police DNA memory, like Labradors running after sticks," said Serge. "They probably don't even know why they do it. They just put the lights on and go, and a while later the partner who isn't behind the wheel says, 'Why are we stopping?' 'Something inside just told me to because there's a really cool crash up ahead. It's weird; I can't explain it.
~ Tim Dorsey
What are you doing in there, Camicazi? I told you to escape! And how did you know this was my sand yacht? You wrote 'The Hopeful Puffin 2' on the back of it, explained the basket, adding hastily, and I don't know what you're talking about. I've never heard of this Cami-whatsit.
~ Cressida Cowell
To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.
~ Charles Inglis
He knew one thing for sure, though. Whatever happened, Matt would have some handy excuse. He'd make up some story or change an old one, find some dumb quote to explain it all.
~ Charlie Higson
The difference between a house and a home is like the difference between a man and a woman-- it might be embarrassing to explain, but it would be very unusual to get them confused.
~ Lemony Snicket
Yeah. Almost as surprising as when you nailed me with your father's car. In the interest of avoiding confrontation, I felt compelled to explain. I didn't feel obliged to do it convincingly. It was an accident. My foot slipped. That was no accident. You jumped the goddamn curb and followed me down the sidewalk.
~ Janet Evanovich
Ranger's gonna hate this," Tank said. "Better to get shot than to have to explain the gate. Bad enough I got a horse that smells like his shower gel.
~ Janet Evanovich
It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is one that serves a productive, civilized, but always evolving, society.
~ Sonia Sotomayor
The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human.
~ Sam Francis
Burns helped to establish a new method of treatment, cognitive therapy, and Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy is his attempt to explain how it works and why it is different. The
~ Tom Butler-Bowdon
It is literally my job to support and defend the President, so it is odd to me that I am being asked to defend or explain 'comments in support' of my boss.
~ Stephanie Grisham
For the type of parts I play, I should be booed. But it's odd, fans just adore me. I can't explain it.
~ Peter Lorre
Either help me, or go with me right now to explain to my sister and mother that I will be leaving again first thing in the morning. She frowned at him. That sounds vaguely like a threat. It's not vague and it's not a threat. It's clearly blackmail.
~ P. C. Cast
Langdon held his ground, finally feeling like he was about to get some answers. "Who are the soldiers in black suits? Why are they trying to kill me?" "Long story," the man said. "I'll explain on the way." Langdon frowned, not entirely liking this answer.
~ Dan Brown
The sign stopped me-- or rather, this text stopped me. Words are my profession; I seized these and demanded that they explain themselves, that they cease to be ambiguous.
~ Daniel Quinn
The unsatisfactoriness of definitions of poetry arises usually from one or other of two causes. If the definition is that of a critic, it is the resultant of a long analytical process, and therefore not very intelligible apart from the process by which it has been arrived at; if it is the definition of a poet, it is certain to contain that element of poetry which it professes to explain.
~ HENRY CHARLES BEECHING
It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting.
~ Tris Speaker
The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
~ Zadie Smith
Wallace, it turned out, was a big fan of Rolling Stone and me. When he died we had hours of tape of him trying to explain his life.
~ Jann S. Wenner
Es muss so etwas wie Glück geben. Wie sonst würden wir uns den Erfolg derjenigen erklären, die wir nicht mögen?
~ Jean Cocteau