Quotes About Explanation

My name is always just added into any controversy without clarifying with me first.

Football isn't nuclear physics, but it's not so simple that you can make it simple. It takes some explaining to get it across.

All of the coding and hacking stuff that we do and I talk about, I always have them explain what it means so I know what I'm saying.

Of course, aside from fear, the God business runs on sentimentality. That's the only explanation. Unless it's a real estate scam.

who says they're all criminals? -he parried- some might actually be innocent. others may need someone to explain them. there are reasons why we become the way we are, which often aren't apparent on the surface of our lives

Anxiety develops a hair trigger, ready to go off at stimuli that we don't even notice. Not understanding what made us anxious, the conscious mind searches for an explanation, and often enough creates its own.

Die Zwerge, die wir in den Höhlen des Donnerbergs gefunden haben, sahen anders aus. Ihre Gesichter waren grau wie Stein.« »Sie waren tot«, erinnerte Leandra mich. »Das könnte es erklären«, nickte ich.

Someone once told me that explaining is an admission of failure. I'm sure you remember, I was on the phone with you, sweetheart.

Explaining will get us nowhere.

Well, it just figures," Younger told him, like a man explaining his religion.

It is crazy to postulate a trillion (causally unconnected) universes to explain the features of one universe, when postulating one entity (God) will do the job.

El éxito de la ciencia es desvelar el ordenamiento profundo del mundo natural, nos da una base firme para aceptar que hay una causa aun mas profunda para dicho orden. Dios no es una explicación alternativa a la ciencia, es la base de toda explicación, en el sentido de que es la existencia de Dios la que da lugar a la posibilidad de explicación.

The security staff boasted that a squirrel could not get onto the grounds without their knowledge. However, they could not explain a family of deer that seemed to come and go as they pleased.

The function of generalizations is quite simple. Without generalizations we could not explain anything. Things would occur around us for no reason that we could fathom. We would stand around in a stupor, unable to relate anything to anything else, for a generalization is simply a way to take some set of things (that we don't understand) and compare them with something we do understand by means of some "abstract" words.

Look, I can explain everything" was the most commonly used line of dialogue in the history of American movies

I couldn't help it," I said, knowing how lame that sounded. It was as bad as Angeline's "it's not my fault" mantra.

Everything"s fine," I said, with a tight smile. "Kiyo was just giving me his latest explanation about how my son is a terror to be feared." Dorian scoffed. "Little Thundro? A terror? Hardly, unless perhaps we"re discussing diapers.

You never do anything without a reason." "Of course not. Why do anything without a reason?" "Don't start up with your circular logic.

How can I explain what I myself don't understand?

Okay, compelling chase or no, you still haven't told us what a nephilopopogus is.

The easiest way to discover the purpose of an invention is to ask the creator to explain it.

The rain was nothing more than the emergency sprinkler system gone wild. All this trouble could be easily explained: the sprinklers malfunctioning. Maleficent had done her job well.

If, at the end of the Atlantic, Columbus had found only an absence of water, this English tourist would have been there to capture that void with a wide-angle lens. Here, the wind blows from nowhere to nowhere across a plain transformed by salt into a vision of light. Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation. You start out with one thing, end up with another, and nothing's like it used to be, not even the future.

The nature of being a minority is to explain, ad nauseum, how you see the world, assuming the majority can take time away from their own self-indulgence to listen.