Top 100 Can't Explain Quotes
#1. I think it's important to share emotion, feelings. Everything the words can't explain. I just want to convey what I'm feeling, thinking.
Marilou
#2. I think you've just defined religion in its purest sense. Awe at what we can't explain.
Eric Thomson
#3. Yes, I need the money. I mean no, I don't. It can't be reduced to money. I can't explain why I do it. It's a kind of impulse.
Rachel Kushner
#4. I was a normal kid. I can't explain how normal I was.
Suraj Sharma
#5. You don't want to go right, if everyone thinks you're going to go right. You go left, on purpose. Sometimes you can't explain why, and you can't explain what left looks like, but you just do it.
Katee Sackhoff
#6. [A God-thing is] when something happens in your life, and you look at it and can't explain how or why it happened, but you know there's a reason for it. You know that God is doing something in your life, and it changes you. There's no other way to explain it except to see it as a God thing.
Robin Jones Gunn
#7. You can't deny reality just because you can't explain it.
Toby Jones
#8. The bag is me. I can't explain why the bag is me, but the bag is me. I have been swinging and I have come to a complete stop. I have no idea why. I have no idea why anything. Like, why I'm here. Or why I stopped. Or why I was swinging.
A.S. King
#9. Things happen. Things that physics and math and crap that gets measured in a lab can't explain. People aren't just laws and rules, Claire. They're ... sparks. Sparks of something beautiful and huge. And some sparks glow brighter
Rachel Caine
#10. I have this rage that I can't explain. It's sad.
Peter Davis
#11. I'm tired again, I've tried again, and now my heart is full.
And I just can't explain ... so I won't even try to.
Morrissey
#12. If Mad Men had taken place in the '90s it would have been just as believable. But the fact is that was the perfect storm and with the fashion and the sets and the writing and the actors it just all made sense and it just was one of those things that you can't explain.
Christina Hendricks
#13. Whenever I was with a woman, I always sort of want another one. So there was always another one. I can't explain this.
Klaus Kinski
#14. I've never looked through his stuff and I can't explain exactly why it is I'm so incurious. I suppose there are clues about his life there in the shut-up-and-locked room, perhaps even some traces of my mother, but better to be content with ignorance, I've always thought, than haunted by the truth.
Sara Baume
#15. Slowly his finger reaches my hand and my heart is racing. I enjoy the feel of his hands on me more than I should. I can't explain what's happening between us because it's never been like this. It's always been friendship.
Anonymous
#16. I don't just love you. It's like the word I want to use hasn't been invented yet. Maybe it's because no one's ever felt this type of love before. Maybe I'm the first to feel it. I don't know. I can't explain it. But those words
I love you
they just don't seem like enough. Not anymore.
Jay McLean
#17. A rule to live by: I won't use anything I can't explain in five minutes.
Phil Crosby
#18. If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood .
Richard P. Feynman
#19. Ever since I've been boxing, it's always been the case that when I go inside the ring a switch goes off and my attitude changes totally from the person I am outside it. I really can't explain why or how.
Oscar De La Hoya
#20. Alice says she can't explain herself because she's not herself, she knows who she was this morning but she changed several times since then.
Emma Donoghue
#21. I just play, that's all. When I'm in the field, I always connect with what I'm doing. I can't explain it. I can't control it. It just happens.
Adolfo Cambiaso
#22. I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can't explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
Noam Chomsky
#23. Lara: Because sometimes you just feel sad and you can't explain it.
Kitty: PMS?
Lara: No.It's not PMS. Just because a girl is sad, it doesn't mean it has anything to do with PMS.
Jenny Han
#24. When a man can't explain a woman's actions, the first thing he thinks of is the condition of her uterus.
Clare Boothe Luce
#25. Madness is like intelligence, you know. You can't explain it. Just like intelligence. It comes on you, it fills you, and then you understand it. But when it goes away you can't understand it at all any longer.
Marguerite Duras
#27. Retreat"
"I can't explain why I did these things, except to say that I carry a little imp inside me whose ambrosia is my brother's wrath.
Wells Tower
#28. I'm a fairly religious person, so I believe in some things that sound a little crazy I'm sure, depending on where you're standing. I believe in leaving room for things that you can't explain in the universe, and you don't have to be religious to leave room for those things.
Veronica Roth
#29. This power that I'm supposed to have over women was never noticed when I was a stage actor on Broadway. I don't know when I got it. And by God, I can't explain it.
Clark Gable
#30. There are times you will be given intuition, you just know something, and you can't explain it. Don't override it. Don't talk yourself out of it. That's the Creator giving you inside information.
Joel Osteen
#31. With a damp palm, I turned the knob and cracked open the door. She was asleep in her freshly made bed. I can't explain how relieved I felt for this simple mercy. She was here and safe on clean sheets.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#32. There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.
Marlene Dietrich
#33. Prof. Emi Ito said "Lailah, if you can't explain the scientific observations in a simple sentence, it means you do not know enough.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#34. I don't have a great talent for explaining myself in acting because I can't explain it.
Elaine Stritch
#35. I can't explain some of the things I've seen and ... I've done some things I can't explain.
Josh Gates
#36. The Somebody Else's Problem field is much simpler and more effective, and what's more can be run for over a hundred years on a single torch battery. This is because it relies on people's natural disposition not to see anything they don't want to, weren't expecting, or can't explain.
Douglas Adams
#37. I can't explain the lack of integrity among some of the leaders of our health care facilities. This is something I rarely encountered during 38 years in uniform. And so I will not defend it because it is indefensible. But I can take responsibility for it and I do.
Eric Shinseki
#38. I believe in metaphysics. I don't believe in God because I think that is a human simplification of the things we can't explain. But I believe in a greater universe.
Jochen Zeitz
#39. I feel genius in great works of art. I have seen medical cures that science can't explain, some seemingly triggered by faith. The same is true of millions of other people.
Deepak Chopra
#40. I can explain my body and my brain, but there's something more. I can't explain my own existence - what makes me a unique human being.
John Eccles
#41. Don't listen to anyone. Trust what gives you pleasure. Trust the emotions. If you love something but can't explain why, that's enough
Calice Becker
#42. As you love yourself, life loves you back. I don't think it has a choice either. I can't explain how it works, but I know it to be true.
Kamal Ravikant
#43. Children like yourselves are full of magic, but the men have turned, they've lost their magic to the fear and hatred they harbor for all that they can't explain, control, or understand.
Brom
#44. I guess I'm depressed. I don't know. I can't explain it. Part of it is the irritability of being 84, and part of it is being not as physically strong as I once was. And part of it is my misunderstanding, I think, of what's going on in the world.
Toni Morrison
#45. I can't explain how it is I keep having new ideas. But one book inevitably follows another. It is my way of exploring the known, the remembered, and the imagined, the literary triad of which all stories are made.
Virginia Hamilton
#46. I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.
Jack Kemp
#47. I think everybody has experiences from time to time they can't explain. They are peculiarities. Usually we just dismiss them because they are uncomfortable to think about.
Stephen King
#48. I can't explain my feelings for him ... they're strange. But he says it is why we are so much alike, why I dream of him. He calls it The Craving.
Nadege Richards
#49. I can't explain it too well. I picture myself being completely in tune with you. I breathe when you breathe. My heart beats when yours beats. I can time them perfectly to each other and then I just...slow it all down. It's really very easy." ~ Garreth
Jennifer Murgia
#50. You really can't explain how you do the things you do. I can't, anyway. I love certain actors, but sometimes they say the stupidest things about technique. I don't want to say something stupid.
Kirsten Dunst
#51. John Kerry says the 'W' in George W. Bush stands for 'Wrong.' But he still can't explain what John Kerry stands for.
David Letterman
#52. No one ever taught me and I can't teach anyone. If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it?
Red Grange
#53. It's like you are oozing magic." Tari rolled her eyes.
"Yes I am an all-powerful witch," she said sarcastically.
"No. Not a witch, but something. I can't explain it. It's as if magic is your friend," Ivy continued.
S.K. Whiteside
#54. Einstein once said, "If you can't explain a concept to a six-year-old, you don't fully understand it.
Claudia Welch
#55. Tide comes in, tide goes out, you can't explain it!
Bill O'Reilly
#56. One day a wolf bit a man and the man caught it. Magic or science, it's all the same. The only thing magical about it is that we can't explain it." ~Sam
Maggie Stiefvater
#57. Written in these walls are the stories that I can't explain
Harry Styles
#58. Then there's the way you krazak your G'ardrgh," said Corporal Littlebottom. "I won't even ask," said Vimes. "I'm afraid I can't explain in any case," said Cheery.
Terry Pratchett
#59. The reasons why a player is better on one club than on another are many. I certainly am not an expert and can't explain.
Rabih Alameddine
#60. My emotional investment started when I read the first scene of the actual drama [45 Years]. I can't explain it, there's no logic to it, but the notion of one's youth that somehow comes back but is gone, a man of my age connecting to that timing of life.
Tom Courtenay
#61. I'm always telling my students that if they can't explain what they are doing, to their grandmothers, then they probably don't understand it themselves.
Gunter Blobel
#62. There's a strange something, which without a brain
Fools feel, and which e'en wise men can't explain,
Planted in man, to bind him to that earth,
In dearest ties, from whence he drew his birth.
Charles Churchill
#63. Just because you can't explain something doesn't make it false; just because you can explain something doesn't make it true.
Russell Eric Dobda
#64. The purpose of leadership is to take others to the top. And when you take others who might not make it to the top otherwise, there's no other feeling like it in the world. To those who have never had the experience, you can't explain it. To those who have, you don't need to.
John C. Maxwell
#65. Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as grown-ups. Those affected by them can't explain them, and those who haven't known them have no understanding of them at all.
Michael Ende
#66. Sometimes you come to realize you understand something but you can't explain it to anyone, not even yourself. This is perhaps the most sacred kind of understanding.
James Rozoff
#67. Where story comes from, I don't know. I know that I become obsessed with something. An idea, an image, a person, the way a person talks. And then something starts happening that I can't explain, and it has a lot to do with language.
Dorothy Allison
#68. I've discovered that half the people would love to go into space and there's no need to explain it to them. The other half can't understand and I couldn't explain it to them. If someone doesn't know why, I can't explain it.
Sally Ride
#69. True peace of mind is calm in your heart that you can't explain.
Ron Baratono
#70. Ashburn gestured dramatically. "Look, I can't explain the psychology behind it. All I know is, it's more satisfying to get the jelly beans with an office supply order. They just taste better when they arrive in the same box as four hundred legal pads.
Nina Post
#71. Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.
Bill Evans
#72. I find humor to be the most attractive characteristic, but I certainly won't cancel anything out, considering when you love someone you love someone, and sometimes you just can't explain it.
Zoey Deutch
#73. I can't explain why I don't read comments. Maybe because I worked at Time for so long and they don't have them, so I keep forgetting that they're there.
Joel Stein
#74. Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan.
Kurt Vonnegut
#75. 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.
Luis Suarez
#76. I've seen you do the most atrocious things, yet, for some reason I can't explain, I want you more than I want to live to see tomorrow. So don't you dare think you can take my life without giving me that. Without letting me see how much you wanted me too.
Ella Frank
#77. Explanations can't explain love--only deep perception can do that.
Debasish Mridha
#78. You can't explain love" he said out loud. "That's how it gets ruined.
Simon Van Booy
#79. Oh I can't explain. When I like people immensely I never tell their names to any one. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
Oscar Wilde
#80. All I ask is for powerful people to respond honestly to the questions, and if they can't, explain why.
Bill O'Reilly
#81. I can't explain the alchemy that transmuted one evening into the equivalent of years held lightly in common. The only way I can put it is that we recognized, too surely even for surprise, that we shared the same currency.
Tana French
#82. It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
Barry Bonds
#83. I'm afraid I can't explain myself, sir. Because I am not myself, you see?
Lewis Carroll
#84. I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
Carlos Ghosn
#85. We need a new model: If you can't explain it, you can't sell it.
Elizabeth Warren
#86. I don't know, man." I sighed. "I can't explain it. I guess that's just what happens when we live. Nobody is promised anything. That's why life's so precious
Rachel Van Dyken
#87. I can feel you. I know that doesn't make sense, but the moment you give in to me; the moment you let yourself submit ... it saves me. I can't explain it, but you heal me, Nila. Jethro
Pepper Winters
#89. So I can't explain why, for the next twenty minutes, I stand at the window quietly willing him with my mind to come inside and erase the distance between us.
Colleen Oakley
#90. I've been down in Florida since 1979. When you're born in Nebraska you really can't explain it.
Larry The Cable Guy
#91. You can't explain the feeling of singing hit songs to an audience - it's like being a genuine sports star at the peak of their powers.
Rick Astley
#92. The wonderful thing about maths is it's a totally logical subject, and a pathway has been marked out. I think a lot of these things can be crystallised in something quite essential, that people can get. If I can't explain it, I realise that's probably because I don't completely understand it myself.
Marcus Du Sautoy
#93. If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
#94. What turns me on is to walk into a sold-out venue. The audiences are so much the same as they were in the '60s. It's just an amazing thing. I can't explain it, but I hope it never stops.
Chubby Checker
#95. I can't explain something I saw on holiday on Holy Island when I was about nine years old, but do you know what, it could have been my PE teacher dressed in a monk's habit. I have no idea. I'm not a ghost person ... it doesn't mean there aren't unexplained things; I just don't think they're ghosts.
Tom Goodman-Hill
#96. I think I just have this need to be a storyteller. That's why I wasn't a great dancer - I couldn't articulate a story. I was a better choreographer. I have the need to to just express myself in that way. I can't explain it.
Rosie Perez
#97. It was a haunting feeling, the sort of sensation you get when you wonder whether you are two people, the other of which does things you can't explain, bad and terrible things.
Donald Miller
#98. I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see.
Lewis Carroll
#99. Most people who call themselves conservatives can't explain the American value system.
Dennis Prager
#100. If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer.
Robert Breault
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