We have this terrible struggle to try to explain things to people who have no reason to want to know.
Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a conviction that he is wiser and more intelligent than his readers.
If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else.
Through the history of my records, from when I started controlling the visual, I always used lower case letters for everything, I can't even explain why that is. The character is actually me, and I think once you see the film for the record, or see the video or really get in to the record, that will all sort of reveal itself to you.
We anathematize those who presume to teach or explain any other creed.
If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.
To me, ugliness, grotesqueness - that's the essence [of life]. That's where you realize, it's not about all the consonance and the harmony. It's all the parts that are wrong that help explain why we're drawn to something - what the mystery is - just as much as the beautiful things.
This is too much madness to explain in one text.
There will be occasions in each of our lives when we will be called upon to explain or to defend our beliefs. When the time for performance arrives, the time for preparation is past.
No one can really explain in a rational way what makes a good photograph or a bad photograph. . . This is why the art world will not throw billions of dollars at photography the way it has at painting; and that is what makes it an exciting medium.
I'm sure some of you are wondering whether my breasts are real. Let me just explain to you. This one is, this one isn't.
Can you worship a God who isn't obligated to explain His actions to you? Could it be your arrogance that makes you think God owes you an explanation?
Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can't deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and understood.
Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner.
I'm also not going to explain something just because I said it in a rap. Take what you want from it.
Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw
Don’t complain, don’t explain.
I don't really like to explain my songs.
The hypotheses we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this: our hypotheses ought to foretell phenomena which have not yet been observed.
I don't know what's going on, and I'm probably not smart enough to understand if somebody was to explain it to me. All I know is we're being tested somehow, by somebody or some thing a whole lot smarter than us, and all I can do is be friendly and keep calm and try and have a nice time till it's over.