Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Yolen

Myths are stories that explain a natural phenomenon. Before humans found scientific explanations for such things as the moon and the sun and rainbows, they tried to understand them by telling stories.

I think that Senator Kerry has been working on explaining that. It hasn't come through, ... He is making that message very loud and clear.

Ben Crenshaw

I was just trying to put one foot in front of the other when the week began. I can't explain what happened. My heart was so heavy. I don't know how I did it.

Joey Adams

Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late -- and strike oil.'

I am baffled. This is not incompetence. This is willful. That is the only way I can explain it.

Ichiro Ozawa

I am shy, withdrawn and not good at speaking. Kan can ably explain to the public in a manner in which they can understand.

Tony Stewart

He's a talented kid. He's one of those guys that when you explain something to him, he does a lot more listening than he does talking, and that's hard to find with guys that are really competitive.

We made sure we explained to them that they're going to help other people -- they're going to help other kids and older people,

Stephen Colbert

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.

The fact that the parasite manipulates the mosquito to this extent can help to explain the incredibly intense transmission of malaria.

The factors that explain these differences we don't know about.

Brad Shaw

Well, status quo wasn't working. For whatever reason, we weren't getting the response we thought we would from the players. I try and explain myself, not just telling them what we're doing but why we're doing it and why it's going to help us long-term.

Aaron Rowand

I was out of breath. You can't explain this. There was something special going on tonight.

I wasn't treated great by any means, but the fans treated me fair and the press treated me fair. I was trying to explain that to Joe. Of course, they won the first year (1996 World Series) he was over there, so it worked out perfectly for him.

I was No. 5 my whole life and everyone knew me as that. After I explain the story to them they think it's cool.

Bill Watterson

If something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 minutes, than it's probably not worth knowing anyways.

Josh Wright

If someone can explain that, I want to hear it. We lost by 39 to DePaul, so this shows how much heart this team has. We could have buckled and shut it down for the rest of the season.

Brad Richards

We're just fragile right now. Wish I could explain why.

Zhang Yimou

Love that can be explained is not love.

My daughter's pretty upset about the moving. It's hard to explain it to a 7-year-old.

Hicham Guerrouj

My father told me it was not a job, that I wouldn't make a living at tennis, ... The toughest part was trying to explain to him that I could be the first one from Morocco to do it. But he didn't want me to play. We didn't talk for a year. That was when I knew I couldn't fail. I had to show him it was the right decision. It was a great motivation.

The prime minister has a lot of explaining to do.

She said she didn't know how to explain it any other way, and she was getting frustrated.

She laughed out loud and explained that was a sunflower.

Sergei Bubka

She knows the sport. She can talk to him, explain our position and find out why he is thinking like that.

She just rises to the occasion. She just goes all out ... you can't really explain it.

Elbert Hubbard

No explanation ever explains the necessity of making one.

Grace Paley

. . . people will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women is politics.

It didn't flow. I can't really explain it.

People are self-centeredto a nauseous degree.They will keep on about themselveswhile I'm explaining me.

It has been explained to me on numerous occasions from the league office that they review every play, ... They were real slow in reviewing that one, obviously, or reviewed it poorly.

There is nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitor.

Rebecca MacKinnon

There's a real contradiction that's difficult to explain to the West and the outside world about China and about the Internet.