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Quotes About Explanation

Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene.
~ Fred Friendley
Every why hath a wherefore.
~ William Shakespeare
I have neither the time nor the crayons to explain this to you.
~ Internet meme
naši su doživljaji ?esto tako zamršeni i teški da nije ?udo što ih ljudi pravdaju u?eš?em samog Satane, nastoje?i tako da ih objasne ili bar u?ine lakše podnošljivim.
~ Ivo Andri?
život ide daleko, dalje nego što mi možemo da ga pratimo, a ja se samo trudim da objasnim pojedine pojave, kad ve? ne mogu sve da razumijem.
~ Ivo Andri?
I've already explained
~ J.D. Robb
Erklären heißt verzeihen, erklärt zu werden heißt Verzeihung erlangen [...]
~ J.M. Coetzee
Damn it—why do you assume I'm naive?" She glared up at him. "You have no idea what it's been like my whole life, seeing all these shadows and never having them explained.
~ J.R. Ward
I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.
~ Jack Kerouac
I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddamit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.
~ Jack Kerouac
history is best explained dramatically, because for God's sake nobody's going to tell me that massive Homeric war so to speak, between the Achaens and the Iliums was caused merely by some economic factor concerning trade...
~ Jack Kerouac
Izdržite sa mnom ovaj teret, svi ljubavnici ?itatelji koji ste otrpjeli muke, izdržite sa mnom, svi muškarci koji znate da je to more crnila u o?ima tamnooke žene usamljeno more i biste li pitali more da samo sebe objasni, ili ženu zašto je prekri?ila ruke preko ruže na svom krilu? ne-
~ Jack Kerouac
I'm lucky enough to have two different platforms to perform on - I do stand-up comedy, and I have 'SNL.' That's where I make my most controversial statements because I can explain myself and I'm in control of the microphone, as opposed to Twitter, where it's in the hands of the reader.
~ Michael Che
'What is Twitter?' has always been a tough question to answer.
~ Evan Williams
Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.
~ Will Rogers
Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.
~ Erykah Badu
The E-S theory does not stereotype. Rather, it seeks to explain why individuals are typical or atypical for their sex.
~ Simon Baron-Cohen
With the exception of gravitation and radioactivity, all of the phenomena known to physicists and chemists in 1911 have their ultimate explanation in the laws of quantum electrodynamics.
~ Richard P. Feynman
Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.
~ Richard Dawkins
My grandmother was a psychiatrist and possibly the ultimate of all skeptics. But even she couldn't explain the strange noises we so often heard in the attic.
~ Jennifer McMahon
We should get used to the idea that we'll probably never be able to find - and confirm - a good explanation of the ultimate origin of the universe, though I see no reason to believe that we can't press much further on this question than we have managed to date.
~ Daniel Dennett
On the campaign trail, having to explain what bisexuality is to people was pretty unbelievable. People were like, 'But you're married to a man.'
~ Katie Hill
When I first went into the active Army, you could tell someone to move a chair across the room. Now you have to tell them why.
~ Robert Lembke
I said to the president's wife, Vietnam is the main reason we are having trouble with the youth of America. It is a war without explanation or reason.
~ Eartha Kitt