Quotes About Explaining Things

#1. I think that I was too self-centered to ever develop good skills as a peacemaker. In my younger days, I assumed that it was because I was smarter than everyone else, with no patience for explaining things in short words for mouthbreathers who just didn't get it.

Cory Doctorow

#2. And the little prince said to the man, 'Grownups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always explaining things to them.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#3. Humor is a terrific tool for explaining things, especially when what you're explaining is frightening or dull and complicated.

P. J. O'Rourke

#4. I'm not very good at explaining things," she said. "But I think you have beautiful eyes. I love the gold in them. I love that they're different from my eyes- I see mine all the time and I'm bored with them.

Holly Black

#5. Mama always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them.

Tom Hanks

#6. Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#7. I like doing movies with kids in them, and you're explaining things. They're teaching you and you're teaching them, and the audience can loop through that.

Aaron Eckhart

#8. Percy, explaining things to you is like lecturing a gerbil.

Rick Riordan

#9. History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.

Donald Kagan

#10. Diplomatic exchange combined the worst aspects of explaining things to a toddler and talking with a mother-in-law. It was dull, it was tedious, it was exasperating, and it was necessary.

Tom Clancy

#11. Some men explained why men explaining things to women wasn't really a gendered phenomenon. Usually, women pointed out that, in insisting on their right to dismiss the experiences women say they have, men succeeded in explaining in just the way I said they sometimes do.

Rebecca Solnit

#12. It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things.

Myrtle Reed

#13. It's sorcery," Cade said, as if explaining things to a slow child. "That's the explanation." "I'm a scientist," she said. "I need a little more than 'a wizard did it.

Christopher Farnsworth

#14. The more everybody knows about all aspects of the problems we face, the better off all of us will be. Less time spent explaining things means more time for coming up with creative solutions.

Jesse James Garrett

#15. Einstein's theory of relativity does a fantastic job for explaining big things. Quantum mechanics is fantastic for the other end of the spectrum - for small things.

Brian Greene

#16. I have a funny mental framework when I do physics. I create an imaginary audience in my head to explain things to - it is part of the way I think. For me, teaching and explaining, even to my imaginary audience, is part of the process.

Leonard Susskind

#17. Religion can have psychological and social roles, but in terms of really explaining how things work, science works differently. Science is based on material elements at the core.

Lisa Randall

#18. Barack Obama was speaking to a Jewish group, and he told them that his name Barack is the same as the Jewish word 'baruch,' which means one who's blessed. That's what he said, yeah. Obama had a harder time explaining his middle name, Hussein. Things got quiet there.

Conan O'Brien

#19. You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.

C.S. Lewis

#20. I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

David Bowie

#21. The idea of tiny changes cumulated over many steps is an immensely powerful idea, capable of explaining an enormous range of things that would be otherwise inexplicable.

Richard Dawkins

#22. This was always the difficult part, back when she'd been at her old school: explaining that "asexual" and "aromantic" were different things.

Seanan McGuire

#23. Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.

Isaac Newton

#24. Simple things are almost always the hardest to explain, Julie. Showing someone how to tie a shoelace is easy. Explaining it is almost impossible.

Daniel Quinn

#25. It's not about having things figured out, or about communicating with other people, trying to make them understand what you understand. It's about a chicken dinner at a drive-in. A soft pillow. Things that don't need explaining.

Ann Beattie

#26. I believe things happen that can't be explained, but so many people seem intent on explaining them. Everyone has an answer for them. Either aliens or things from the spirit world.

Harold Ramis

#27. I would make a genuinely terrible guide. I can't remember things. I would get half way through telling a story or explaining something and I would get distracted. Oh, and I have absolutely no sense of direction at all.

Bill Bryson

#28. The trouble was, explaining to a Feegle how dangerous things were going to be only got them more enthusiastic.

Terry Pratchett

#29. Three things, then. Escape, and finding work, and then explaining himself adequately. It was just those areas he had trouble with. Everything else, he was all right about.

Alan Moore

#30. Fiction is often a much-needed step back that gives you the distance to see things more clearly; it's very often better at explaining why events happened as opposed to just what happened.

Kathleen Rooney

#31. Point taken. Thank you for explaining these things to me. Please continue to do so in the future." "I

Kresley Cole

#32. I was on the point of explaining to Gerald that the world has always laughed at its own tragedies, that being the only way in which it has been able to bear them. And that, consequently, whatever the world has treated seriously belongs to the comedy side of things.

Oscar Wilde

#33. Men explain things to me, still. And no man has ever apologized for explaining, wrongly, things that I know and they don't.

Rebecca Solnit

#34. I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#35. Writing has been a way of explaining to myself the things I do not understand.

Rosario Castellanos