Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.
When James Bond presses the watch and the car explodes, the writer doesn’t go into the science of it. One should leave it to the leap of faith. I have tried to explain as much as possible, and what I can’t, I have left it to people’s imagination.
There are works of fiction which seek to explain jihadi terrorists as the militant wing of Amnesty International. I don’t buy that.
I’m very independent, probably quite selfish, and like being able to disappear at the drop of a hat without having to explain myself – most men would find that a pain, wouldn’t they?
The tough thing about these senatorial jobs is you get ‘yes’ or ‘no’ votes. Your whole job is to either say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ and explain why.
It’s impossible to explain creativity. It’s like asking a bird, ‘How do you fly?’ You just do.
I always loved cars. I don’t know why, I can’t explain it to you. It has always been with me.
I’ve always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out.
The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began.
What I’m really excited for is to see the evolution of trans characters and see more diverse stories be told, so that every time we’re on screen, we’re not really playing the part of educator and having to explain the experience to the audience, because it will have already been normalized.
The exciting part of acting, I don’t know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.
If you explain to a patient what can be done and what might be the downsides, let the patient choose; don’t have ethicists, priests, or doctors say you may or may not have replacement cells.
When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
A rule to live by: I won’t use anything I can’t explain in five minutes.
The biggest fragility in a project is often just the inability to be able to explain to people why you are doing it, and when you’re going to do it, and what’s going to happen.
It’s worth knowing more about the complicated environmental and genetic factors that could explain why traumatic brain injuries lead to long-term disabilities in some people and not in others.
I try to explain to people that the only way to be cool is to be who you truly are, and the only way to live life is to do the things that you want to do and be the person that you want to be no matter who that is or what that is or how you have to do it. That’s the only way you can be genuinely happy.
For some reason I can’t explain, artist and musicians tend to look younger than our age. Being in music, you need this youthful sense of discovery and wonder for what you’re doing and keep your imagination open. That’s a youthful way of looking at life and I think that reflects in how you age.
I can explain my work to the cleaner or the president; it’s all the same to me. I am very communist in this way.
There’s a time when you have to explain to your children why they’re born, and it’s a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.
We can score political points. We can try to advance some important initiatives. But at some point, it takes sober-minded, responsible conservative leaders to identify when you’ve pushed as far as you can and to have the courage to go back and face the electorate and explain to them why you voted the way you did.
I dunno… I feel out of step. Musically. Just out of step, not even behind or ahead. Just sort of like… I dunno, sometimes I feel like I’m still… just not… in sync. I don’t know how to explain it. I just am.
I really found this campaign odious. I couldn’t get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn’t know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
I would go to them and I would explain this is the price of going forward. We’re going to move ahead in all these other areas. We’re moving ahead in tax reform and GST, we are moving ahead on trade, but this will not be done at the cost of the environment.
Character is that sum total of moments we can’t explain.
You have to talk about why things happened the way they did. You can’t actually explain my political life except by a series of situations rather than by some carefully constructed, rigidly progressed ascendancy.
Whenever someone like a plumber or a mechanic tries to explain something technical to me, I listen for about three seconds before it all just becomes white noise, like Charlie Brown’s teacher.
My feeling, of course, is that it’s ludicrous to try to prove God’s existence by science. God has nothing to do with science. God has all to do with soul, and who can explain that?
To say that what a planet is doesn’t matter would be to imply that a planetary scientist couldn’t explain to someone what the field is about.
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.
You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You don’t know how to explain to them that the time when you feel alive or present is when you are writing.
Once you accept the existence of God – however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him – then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.
My mother often mailed me articles from ‘Reader’s Digest’ about advances in DNA chemistry. No matter how I tried to explain it to her, she never grasped the concept that I could have been writing those articles, that something I had invented made most of those DNA discoveries possible.
Now Speaker Gingrich says interesting and insightful things. He can explain them well. On many occasions he also says outrageous things that come from nowhere and he has a tendency to say them at exactly the time when they most undermine the conservative agenda.
If I write something set 60 years in the future, I am going to have to explain how humanity got there, and that’s becoming quite a big job.
I’m a public figure. It’s up to me to take the initiative to explain things. It’s my responsibility.
It’s the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to film. You certainly discover that you need to explain more about a character.
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
How is justice served if the victim and the accused are working together to make it all go away? Somebody please explain that to me.
I’m special, in a way that is good. I don’t have to explain ‘special.’ There is no definition for special. Special speaks for itself.
Much theoretical work, of course, focuses on existing economic institutions. The theorist wants to explain or forecast the economic or social outcomes that these institutions generate.
Filming costs so much money, so it’s such a nerve-racking process, whereas being in a studio is quite cheap compared to that, so you have more time to work on things until you feel good about them. That makes it easier to explain a certain feeling and be in a vulnerable place while making sure it does what you want it to do.
Why do the President and Vice-President constantly change the subject when asked to explain why things are going so badly in Iraq? The answer is simple. They have been consistently wrong about Iraq, and the results speak for themselves.
I never – I mean, I never saw any doctor’s report saying I was HIV positive. I never had a doctor explain to me and show me what was going on.
I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn’t otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.
My son is 14, and I only have this time with him. True, it’s not like before when I couldn’t explain to a little boy why I can’t read him his bedtime story six nights a week. And he’s even said to me, ‘Mom, if you want to do a show somewhere, you should go.’
It’s hard to explain why I like Europe so much.
There are only three million people in Uruguay, but there is such hunger for glory: you’ll do anything to make it; you have that extra desire to run, to suffer. I can’t explain our success, but I think that’s a reason.
There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.
Although Darwin was able to persuade much of the world that a modern eye could be produced gradually from a much simpler structure, he did not even attempt to explain how the simple light sensitive spot that was his starting point actually worked.
Before ‘The Last Samurai,’ I couldn’t believe I could do that. I didn’t think I would be able to explain myself and my feelings in English, in a different language. But I could.
It is harder to explain why free markets create wealth than it is to pander to workers who have been displaced by global competition.
