Explains A Lot Quotes

#1. My father says the family motto is, 'What would the Borgias do?' That explains a lot, actually.

Liana Brooks

#2. That explains a lot,' he said. 'I suppose it's also why we've never glimpsed that giant compass in the corner of the Atlantic. I have to say, I'm a little disappointed.

Gideon Defoe

#3. Half the people in the world are below average. That's the definition of average and explains the behaviour of a lot of people.

Robert Popple

#4. I feel like guitar explains a lot. You can just listen to a guitar without any lyrics over it; you can just feel what kind of track it is. If it's pain ... you can feel it. It sets the mood.

Nayvadius Cash

#5. Instinct recognizes no justice.

Toba Beta

#6. I really believe that the aliens are us from the future. It seems to me a very plausible reason that explains a lot of phenomena as opposed to green men with one eye from outer space.

Chris Squire

#7. A good theory explains a lot but postulates little.

Richard Dawkins

#8. Creators aren't gods. They make places, which is quite hard. It's men that make gods. This explains a lot.

Terry Pratchett

#9. I remember when I used to have actual time to write and now you don't have time and you just do it. I think it explains a lot about television.

Callie Khouri

#10. Men forget everything; women remember everything. That's why men need instant replay in sports. They've already forgotten what's happened.

Rita Rudner

#11. A watched child never learns.

Robert Breault

#12. Keep patience.... For even TIME needs TIME.

Mayank Sharma

#13. This is about a race of people enslaved and made extinct.

Amy Ewing

#14. God's got a lot of explaining to do. Of course, God never explains. When life breaks your heart, you're just supposed to pick up the pieces and start all over, I guess.

Mary Doria Russell

#15. Getting my father to throw anything away was pretty difficult. He was not trying to hide who he was, and he said, you don't have to hide the fact that I'm manic-depressive. You can tell people that's who I am. It's - explains a lot about your situation.

Maya Forbes

#16. I think having power ingrains people with a conservatism. There's a tendency to hedge one's bets. (Which explains a lot, actually, about why the movie business is the way it is, and why the publishing industry is too.)

Matthew Specktor

#17. No self-respecting snoop sneaks in before midnight anyway.

Lindsay Buroker

#18. Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.

Greg Egan

#19. No one can say 'He jests at scars who never felt a wound' for I have never for one moment been in a state of mind to which even the imagination of serious pain was less than intolerable. If any man is safe from the danger of under-estimating this adversary, I am that man.

C.S. Lewis

#20. I wanted to put a reference to masturbation in one of the scripts for the Sandman. It was immediately cut by the editor [Karen Berger]. She told me, "There's no masturbation in the DC Universe." To which my reaction was, "Well, that explains a lot about the DC Universe.

Neil Gaiman

#21. A lot of unconfident kids do tricks because it's the quickest route to impressing people," he explains. "You can stand behind something amazing and people think you're amazing.

Derren Brown

#22. Donald Trump unveiled his immigration policy and now he's getting a lot of flak. His policy would have prevented his own grandfather from coming to America. That explains his new campaign slogan: 'Vote Trump to prevent another Trump.'

Conan O'Brien

#23. When walking, walk. When eating, eat." That explains a lot.

Alexander Yamashita

#24. How do you know she had sex?" Dallas asks.
"Every time a penis touches Britain, I receive a telepathic notification."
"Oh," Dallas says with a straight face. "Well that explains a lot.

Iris Blaire

#25. It must be hard for humans, forever floundering through inconvenient geography. Humans are always lost. It's a basic characteristic. It explains a lot about them.

Terry Pratchett

#26. Oh, for heaven's sake, she thought with droll exasperation, this certainly explains a lot. It's no wonder I haven't been able to keep my hands off the blasted man since the day I met him. He's an artifact! A Celtic one at that!

Karen Marie Moning

#27. The American way is to not need help, but to help.

Anne Lamott

#28. That's why she felt entitled to be filthy rich. It explains and excuses a lot. She didn't want money because money was power; she wanted it because she'd been poor, and money cures poverty. [ ... ] But beauty is like money from God. And Mom has always been beautiful.

Sean Wilsey

#29. Nobody wants to disappoint the boss and get fired. But if the boss hasn't said this is important, it's going to die a slow death in bureaucracy and that explains a lot of the problems.

Robert M. Edsel

#30. Once the lotus of your inner divinity gets full-blown and you reach the mental state where all the religious giants of human history experienced the all-encompassing sense of godliness, the exuberance of the human mind turns infinite.

Abhijit Naskar

#31. Remember, people only rain on your parade because they're jealous of your sun and tired of their shade.

Kim Kardashian

#32. Green tree. Pretty lady. Car. Car. Truck," she recites, naming out loud almost everything she sees. "Don't mind me, I'm a gabberbox," she chuckles. "A gabberbox?" I ask, confused at her term. "You know, hon, I talk a lot," she explains before breaking into a laugh that is eerily familiar.

John Waters