God was my co-pilot, but we crashed in the mountains and I had to eat Him. Explain. Votes: 3
Rob BrezsnyExplain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner. Votes: 3
George R. R. MartinIt's weird... people say they're not like apes. Now how do you explain football then? Votes: 2
Mitch HedbergIt's impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do. Votes: 2
Eric Jerome DickeyRandom chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw Votes: 0
Robert A. HeinleinSelfish genes actually explain altruistic individuals, and to me that's crystal-clear. Votes: 0
Richard DawkinsThe number of hypotheses available to explain any given phenomenon is infinite. Votes: 0
Robert M. PirsigThis world cannot explain its own difficulties without the assistance of another. Votes: 0
Charles Caleb ColtonMost people who call themselves conservatives can't explain the American value system. Votes: 0
Dennis PragerYou can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character. Votes: 0
Mignon McLaughlinlife is hard to explain, difficult to understand but you still need life. Votes: 0
Malik Daniyal SakhawatEmpathy and a huge imagination explain a lot of mysteries in the universe. Votes: 0
Shannon L. AlderOne of the biggest problems for beginning writers is this need to over-explain. Votes: 0
Scarlett ThomasBecause your question searches for deep meaning, I shall explain in simple words Votes: 0
Dante AlighieriNever retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl. Votes: 0
Nellie L. McClungIn exchange for freedom of inquiry, scientists are obliged to explain their work. Votes: 0
Carl SaganThe brain struggling to understand the brain is society trying to explain itself. Votes: 0
Colin BlakemoreSince I don't believe in externalism, I don't think it can explain consciousness! Votes: 0
Tim CraneTransformation is something I cannot explain - too much analysis might destroy it. Votes: 0
Sophia LorenThe number of natural hypothesis that can explain any given phenomena is infinite. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinOnly peons made excusses for themselves she taught me. Never apologize, never explain. Votes: 0
Janet FitchNever complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses. Votes: 0
Brian TracySomeone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well. Votes: 0
Alec WilkinsonOrdinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation. Votes: 0
Stephen Jay GouldTo ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure. Votes: 0
Maurice Merleau-PontyMy best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism Votes: 0
Nassim Nicholas TalebI find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress. Votes: 0
Kristin Scott ThomasI'd start to explain with the outward sheepish and inner pride of the nerd. Votes: 0
Robert Lane GreeneOld cookbooks connect you to your past and explain the history of the world. Votes: 0
Jose Andres PuertaPlease explain the problem to me slowly, as I do not understand things quickly. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinPeople wander about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread. Votes: 0
William StaffordIntuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way. Votes: 0
Florence Scovel ShinnCalling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand. Votes: 0
Megan ChanceIt's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself. Votes: 0
Wislawa SzymborskaMy parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities. Votes: 0
Sargent ShriverI would sooner pluck one single brand from the burning than explain all mysteries. Votes: 0
Charles SpurgeonReason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain. Votes: 0
Elizabeth BowenA philosopher is aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light. Votes: 0
Henri Frederic AmielYou do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinIt is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity. Votes: 0
Gregory BatesonForget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't. Votes: 0
Christopher HitchensNever contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!) Votes: 0
John ArbuthnotGroups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies. Votes: 0
Jonathan HaidtIn acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private Votes: 0
Monica BellucciIn acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private. Votes: 0
Monica BellucciA neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior. Votes: 0
David BrinNever increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything. Votes: 0
William of OckhamWhen a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins. Votes: 0
Isaac Bashevis SingerIf you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinSometimes we do not have words to explain our emotions, just a Smile is enough Votes: 0
Gaurav GRV SharmaThe longer it takes to explain value, the more people think you don't have any. Votes: 0
Garrison WynnI think, The world is actually huge. That's the part no one can really explain. Votes: 0
Jennifer EganTalking about the past is like a cat's trying to explain climbing down a ladder, Votes: 0
Robert LowellIt was much easier to explain the veil than to answer questions about the wounds. Votes: 0
Pawan Mishra"I love you" takes 3 seconds to say, 3 hours to explain, and a lifetime to prove. Votes: 0
Wiz KhalifaIt's impossible to explain to people who you are in a five-minute interview on TV. Votes: 0
Ludivine SagnierNobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles. Votes: 0
Chris CleaveLet go of thought, become still and alert, and don't try to understand or explain. Votes: 0
Eckhart TolleGod may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator. Votes: 0
Stephen HawkingTheology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. Votes: 0
H. L. MenckenAny scientist who can't explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan. Votes: 0
Kurt VonnegutI have nothing to explain. As for being misunderstood, I have grown accustomed to that. Votes: 0
Fan BingbingThe book exists for us, perchance, which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauLove is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it. Votes: 0
Rabindranath TagoreThe world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites, Votes: 0
Eli SiegelAnswers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing. Votes: 0
Frank HerbertThere can be no merit in believing something which you can neither explain nor understand. Votes: 0
John LubbockThe theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise. Votes: 0
Peter R. GrantIf you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood . Votes: 0
Richard P. FeynmanDirections are instructions given to explain how. Direction is a vision offered to explain why. Votes: 0
Simon SinekDespite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else. Votes: 0
Alexei SayleThe moralist must praise heroism and condemn cruelty; but the moralist does not explain events. Votes: 0
Georges LefebvreA God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words? Votes: 0
W. Somerset MaughamNo man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words Votes: 0
Brennan ManningAn idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself. Votes: 0
Charles DickensThose who attempts to explain a picture are on the wrong track most of the time. Votes: 0
Pablo PicassoI can't explain why a bride buys her wedding dress, whereas a groom rents his tux. Votes: 0
Lou HoltzLove can never explain the loved one, my dear. It is the essence of wild unreason. Votes: 0
Han SuyinHow do you explain to yourself the casual manner in which you threw your life away? Votes: 0
James Lee BurkeThe words are in my own internal language, and mean more than I could ever explain, Votes: 0
Lisa GerrardIf you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there. Votes: 0
Barry HannahYou never question the truth of something until you have to explain it to a skeptic. Votes: 0
Donald MillerTime will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks. Votes: 0
EuripidesChildhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them! Votes: 0
Friedrich Max MüllerChildhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them! Votes: 0
Max MullerI can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see. Votes: 0
Lewis CarrollI don't have a great talent for explaining myself in acting because I can't explain it. Votes: 0
Elaine StritchI always find myself pulled back into the fantasy genre, and I can't really explain it. Votes: 0
Nick WillingWe may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Votes: 0
Frederick DouglassNever apologize, never explain - didn't we always say that? Well, I haven't and I don't. Votes: 0
Marianne FaithfullYou'll be fine, just some minor burns and hypothermia, which was kind of hard to explain. Votes: 0
Kiersten WhiteIf a theory purports to explain everything, then it is likely not explaining much at all. Votes: 0
Massimo PigliucciThe power of a theory is exactly proportional to the diversity of situations it can explain. Votes: 0
Elinor OstromHow do you explain to someone who thinks you're the devil incarnate, that you're really not? Votes: 0
John CorvinoThe hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see. Votes: 0
Ayn RandThe scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset. Votes: 0
Roberto UngerI learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat. Votes: 0
Darrell RoyalI've been down in Florida since 1979. When you're born in Nebraska you really can't explain it. Votes: 0
Larry the Cable GuyThe film was fair to his musical achievement and gave him every opportunity to explain himself. Votes: 0
Martin BashirI shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud. Votes: 0
Carl JungIf you can't explain what you're doing in simple English, you are probably doing something wrong. Votes: 0
Alfred KahnIt is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience. Votes: 0
Murray KemptonGarden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens. Votes: 0
Tom TurnerFaith is, necessary to explain anything, and to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil. Votes: 0
William WordsworthIt's hard to explain the fun to be found in seeing the right kind of bad movie. Votes: 0
Roger EbertThe duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life. Votes: 0
James StephensWhy try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden. Votes: 0
Robert BreaultPeople tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely. Votes: 0
Mort SahlSometimes you want to use the music in a clarity way to explain something in the film. Votes: 0
Howard ShoreIf I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize. Votes: 0
Richard P. FeynmanIf I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize. Votes: 0
Richard FeynmanNever explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it. Votes: 0
Shel SilversteinNever explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. Votes: 0
Elbert HubbardA theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong Votes: 0
Francis CrickThe whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words. Votes: 0
Elliott ErwittCaryl Churchill is a writer of some note, but in the sack, she makes me explain everything. Votes: 0
Sam ShepardI would like to explain that I consider prayer above all an act of gratitude for existence. Votes: 0
Saul BellowIf you have to explain about how something's supposed to feel, it takes away all the magic. Votes: 0
Susane ColasantiMyths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them. Votes: 0
Edith HamiltonBlack culture is very difficult to explain to people who don't have any direct contact with it. Votes: 0
Jess RowIt's as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror. Votes: 0
Guillermo del ToroTastes are created by the business interests. How else can you explain the popularity of Al Hirt? Votes: 0
Charles MingusDeath and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeGravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion. Votes: 0
Isaac NewtonModern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist. Votes: 0
Robert LanzaWhat's Cabin Nine?" Leo asked. "And I'm not a Vulcan!" "Come on, Mr. Spock, I'll explain everything. Votes: 0
Rick RiordanYou explain how it went, and as far as you can figure out how it got that way. Votes: 0
Virgil ThomsonI don't have to explain or defend the will of God. My job is simply to obey it. Votes: 0
Charles R. SwindollI have no time to explain now. It is a thrilling tale, I wish to do it justice. Votes: 0
J. K. RowlingUnless you know what it is I ain't never going to be able to explain it to you. Votes: 0
Louis ArmstrongI can't explain what I mean. And even if I could, I'm not sure I'd feel like it. Votes: 0
J. D. SalingerWe must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? Votes: 0
Jean CocteauIt's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't. Votes: 0
Barry BondsIf you win, you need not have to explainIf you lose, you should not be there to explain! Votes: 0
Adolf HitlerWhere should be be if we set ourselves to deny everything we do not know how to explain? Votes: 0
Francois AragoA drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us. Votes: 0
Lucy LarcomThe mind canât explain it, and you canât make it go away. Itâs called love. Votes: 0
Lois LowryThere probably is a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn't. Votes: 0
John von NeumannHunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger. Votes: 0
Maxim GorkyIn life as well as in art Zen never wastes energy in stopping to explain; it only indicates. Votes: 0
Alan WattsAn atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see..... Votes: 0
Orlando Aloysius BattistaIts impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do. Votes: 0
Eric Jerome DickeyA skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do. Votes: 0
Jim LehrerLet me explain what I do here. I don't want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary. Votes: 0
Eugene OrmandyIt is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain. Votes: 0
Vladimir LeninHis heart hurt with the wanting of it, the hurt no less painful for being difficult to explain. Votes: 0
Maggie StiefvaterI never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards. Votes: 0
Rudyard KiplingWherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done. Votes: 0
Will DurantScience is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do. Votes: 0
Donald KnuthI can't really explain the feeling of acting. It makes you the most insecure you can possibly be. Votes: 0
Julie DelpyTo explain too much is to steal a person's opportunity to learn, and stealing is against the Law. Votes: 0
Thomas BuckleyIf you must use more than ten slides to explain your business, you probably don't have a business. Votes: 0
Guy KawasakiThe construction of the universe is certainly very much easier to explain than is that of the plant. Votes: 0
Georg C. LichtenbergIf you don't explain it all to me, I might strangle somebody." Of course, Raphael might like that... Votes: 0
Ilona AndrewsIt takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong. Votes: 0
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowTo explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age Votes: 0
Isaac NewtonI do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it. Votes: 0
Whittaker ChambersI'd like to explain why you fine young men had to be blown apart to defend this mud hole. Votes: 0
Randy NewmanI can't explain to you what it's like to be a heartthrob. I don't think I am a heartthrob. Votes: 0
Zac EfronIf you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain! Votes: 0
Adolf HitlerTo explain why a man slipped on a banana peel, we do not need a general theory of slipping. Votes: 0
Sidney MorgenbesserYou don't need Satan to explain the evil in the world. He is not the creator of the universe Votes: 0
Bangambiki HabyarimanaBut music is reflection of self, we just explain it, and then we get our checks in the mail. Votes: 0
EminemI need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonIf I've grown as an artist, it will be represented in the art. There's no need to explain it. Votes: 0
MatisyahuYogi Bear changed my life in ways that I can't explain because it's not a full feature on me. Votes: 0
T. J. MillerI can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do. Votes: 0
Alexis KornerIt's not a filmmaker's job to explain his technique but to tell his story the best way he can. Votes: 0
Mike NicholsIf we wish to quench our thirst, we must lay aside books which explain thirst and take a drink. Votes: 0
Jean-Pierre de CaussadeI cannot name this, I cannot explain this, and I really don't want to so just call me shameless. Votes: 0
Ani DiFrancoJesus did not come to explain away suffering or remove it. He came to fill it with His Presence. Votes: 0
Paul ClaudelIf you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. Votes: 0
Douglas AdamsI want to be able to explain my mistakes. This means I do only the things I completely understand. Votes: 0
Warren BuffettI always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me. Votes: 0
Carlos GhosnI'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came. Votes: 0
Gene TierneyOur past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage. Votes: 0
Joyce MeyerEvery time I change the way I explain myself to myself, I have to rearrange the story of my life. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyI do have a strong sense of God. It's impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course. Votes: 0
Marianne FaithfullI'm also not going to explain something just because I said it in a rap. Take what you want from it. Votes: 0
Azealia BanksThe quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it. Votes: 0
Richard Brinsley SheridanWe're on tour to kind of explain why we do what we do, how its done and how we put it together. Votes: 0
Kid KoalaI just hope I don't have to explain all the times I've used His name in vain when I get up there. Votes: 0
Bob HopeWe must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself. Votes: 4 Goldwin Smith
Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God. Votes: 3 Paulo Coelho
Never explain yourself to anyone, because the one who likes you would not need it, and the one dislikes you wouldn't believe it. Votes: 3 Ali ibn Abi Talib
It's hard to explain why I like Europe so much. Votes: 5 Broderick Crawford