Top 620 Explain Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Explain Quotes from famous people such as Steven Moffat, Mariel Hemingway, Pamela Druckerman, Hassan Nasrallah, Anthony Scaramucci, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I absolutely love television, and I don't mean to be vu

I absolutely love television, and I don’t mean to be vulgar, but as I keep having to explain to people from the movie industry, I get more power and more money doing television, so why on earth would I do a film?
Steven Moffat
The experience of getting my Kriya, which is the meditation process that I do, was very powerful for me – though, as I explain in the book, I was really suspect of that kind of thing.
Mariel Hemingway
Teach your kids emotional intelligence. Help them become more evolved than you are. Explain that, for instance, not everyone will like them.
Pamela Druckerman
Lebanon is caught in a cycle of threats. And it is our duty to be strong and capable of defending our country. But we will not clarify or explain what we do or do not possess.
Hassan Nasrallah
When I put out a tweet, and I put Reince’s name in the tweet, they’re all making the assumption that it’s him because journalists know who the leakers are. So, if Reince wants to explain that he’s not a leaker, let him do that.
Anthony Scaramucci
Sausages are just funny. I don’t know why. I can’t explain it.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
I have never had trouble with any actor being able to visualise things. They are amazing. As long as you have your monster head on a long stick, so you can hold it up there and you can wave it around and let them see it and explain it to them, they are just great.
Dennis Muren
I love ‘Sunday in the Park with George.’ I saw that when I was just, just starting theater school, and I remember singing ‘Finishing the Hat’ or at least reading the lyrics to ‘Finishing the Hat’ and other songs from ‘Sunday in the Park with George’ to my mom to try to explain why I wanted to be an artist.
Stephen Colbert
I consider myself a law-abiding person. But I’m exhausted. I don’t know where to put the bottles, newspapers, cans, and other stuff for garbage pickup outside my house. The rules are so thick you need someone from M.I.T. to explain them.
Bill O’Reilly
I think someone should explain to the child that it’s OK to make mistakes. That’s how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I was thinking, with the TV exposure I had with WWE – and it’s kind of hard to explain to people sometimes how many countless hours you are on television when you’ve been on the road with WWE – I was thinking that was going to open doors, get me auditions, and get me into a lot of high profile roles.
John Morrison
The truth needs to explain why you are the way you are, why you did what you did.
No I.D.
I have no ‘dream role.’ It just comes to me; it’s very intuitive, and I say, ‘OK, I have to do this now.’ It’s not logical; just, ‘I have to jump into this very strange character,’ or something like that. I can’t even explain it.
Sebastian Koch
It always weirds me out and makes me unhappy that some people think I’m Justin. I’m not. People can be talking to me and I know they think they are talking to Justin. It’s hard to explain.
Randy Harrison
People believe that if you can shut your Tourette’s off for a period of time, then you can always shut it off. I try to explain to people that if I spent my whole life trying to control my tics, that’s all I would have time for.
Dash Mihok
I have to trust something that gives me power; I have to believe in something, but in my career I have a lot of moments I cannot explain with God.
Pele
I had to learn how to work in a studio at first because it’s a totally different creative environment to the ‘bedroom recordings’ I’d done before, where I could translate my own ideas without having to explain them to anyone.
Johnny Flynn
Documentaries shouldn’t just reflect the world: they should try and explain why reality is like it is.
Adam Curtis
I’ve seen lights in the sky, I’ve seen UFOs, I’ve even seen something on the ground that I can’t explain, but I’ve never actually seen a being. I wish I had.
Uri Geller
Don’t stigmatize in a rush to explain inexplicable evil.
Ron Fournier
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
Walt Disney
I would explain myself as a singer, an artist… and most importantly I’m a part of Twice!
Nayeon
We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there’s an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves.
Junot Diaz
I wanted to make a film about my dad, a sort of love letter, and explain what I understood of his cinema, which was so utopian. I also wanted to give the sense of his cinema, because they have never been very big box-office, but they were very influential.
Isabella Rossellini
There’s a real contradiction that’s difficult to explain to the West and the outside world about China and about the Internet.
Rebecca MacKinnon
I dislike Allegory – the conscious and intentional allegory – yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.
J. R. R. Tolkien
We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.
Abdolkarim Soroush
I’ll give the director what he wants, but please explain the requirement. If it reaches me, then there’s communication.
Vijay Sethupathi
The scientist should treasure the riddles he can’t solve, not explain them away at the outset.
Roberto Unger
Let me explain something: I’m not incredibly rich.
Nikki Sixx
Experiments suggest that if one particle of Ebola enters a person’s bloodstream, it can cause a fatal infection. This may explain why many of the medical workers who came down with Ebola couldn’t remember making any mistakes that might have exposed them.
Richard Preston
As much as they deny it, I think people want to be scar

As much as they deny it, I think people want to be scared. It’s a phenomenon, why people want to be scared when there is so much violence and craziness in the world. People still really enjoy being scared. It’s a conundrum to me. It’s hard to explain. It’s an unconscious thing, really, why people like that so much.
Dylan McDermott
I think there are certain tenets set in place for all different types on genres. For thrillers, women usually die first. I can’t say exactly why, and it’s kind of a bummer… But I also can’t explain why the wallflower girl in the romantic comedy always gets the guy in the end. That’s just the way those movies go.
Katie Aselton
Science fiction has traditionally been economically naive, with a strong libertarian streak, which I think is like a crude Leninism. That’s attractive because it could be used to explain everything, and if only we lived by its tenets, everything would be perfect.
Charles Stross
I love being onstage and I love to perform. To be honest with you, I’m more comfortable performing than I am in an everyday situation, which I can’t quite explain.
Melanie Chisholm
Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they’re right.
P. J. O’Rourke
I write about it in the book and, you know, explain that. But that was the technicality that actually got my sentence reduced – that Alan Dershowitz used to have my sentence – it came down eventually to eight years.
Jim Bakker
Everyone I know is fervently proud to be Welsh but you try not to be preachy about it. It’s difficult at times. But when I go home to north Wales, or to somewhere I’ve never been in south Wales, I still feel at home because I’m in Wales. It’s hard to explain.
Gary Speed
Parents of all girls must simultaneously explain overt and covert sexism, name it whenever they see it, and teach their daughters to do the same.
Rachel Simmons
I tend to jot down moments, lines, interactions that don’t really make any sense. I try and explain these scattered notes to my close friends, and they become more and more logical. I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve.
Asghar Farhadi
I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.
Salman Rushdie
I believe that it is a whole lifetime of work on Shakespeare’s part that enabled him to do what he did. But the question is how you can explain this whole lifetime in such a way to make it accessible and available to us, to me.
Stephen Greenblatt
I’m certainly not very book smart, but I started traveling at 16, and it has enriched me in ways I could never begin to explain.
Hilary Swank
A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.
Lucy Larcom
When I started out in the eighties, the idea of creating serious comics for adults was pretty laughable to most folks, and for the longest time it was hard to even explain what alternative comics or graphic novels were. Nobody seemed to understand or care. Not so, any longer.
Seth
There are so few books for little kids that actually mention the word transgender and explain what it is in simple terms.
Jazz Jennings
To get the film in your head on the screen, first you have to take it out of your head and explain it to everyone who is working with you. This will take work and planning.
David Slade
To put it bluntly, there isn’t one economic theory that can single-handedly explain Singapore’s success; its economy combines extreme features of capitalism and socialism. All theories are partial; reality is complex.
Ha-Joon Chang
The things I talk about and explain couldn’t happen – yet, they don’t seem impossible – you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane – and it’s trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.
Steven Wright
Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
Barry Sonnenfeld
I explain at the parties that I believe knitting is a transformative and intriguing act that can change the life and brain of the person doing it, and that knitting is a perfect metaphor for life and insight into some better ways through it.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee