Explaining Quotations

The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.

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

Economists largely confine themselves to three key factors - capital, labor and productivity - when explaining how and why a country grows.

I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.

Debates go on to this day about what caused the Great Depression. Economics is not very good at explaining swings in economic activity.

A lot of people think that persuasion is all about values and aligning values. I largely disagree. I think persuasion generally, and political persuasion more particularly, has much more to do with explaining in new ways and connecting dots in new ways than just invoking emotions and values.

I myself do not believe in explaining anything.

We could have done a better job explaining what was in the Affordable Care Act, but when you talk to people and you don't label it, people get really excited about what's in it. It is going to make a big difference for people.

Quantum physics forms the foundation of chemistry, explaining how molecules are held together. It describes how real solids and materials behave and how electricity is conducted through them... It enabled the development of transistors, integrated circuits, lasers, LEDs, digital cameras and all the modern gadgetry that surrounds us.

Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to youth; and with your permission I shall consider you as representing here not only the academic youth of Sweden nor even of Europe but also of America.

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

Our public schools arbitrarily define science as explaining the world by natural processes alone. In essence, a religion of naturalism is being imposed on millions of students. They need to be taught the real nature of science, including its limitations.

Aesthetics - rather than reason - shapes our thought processes. First comes aesthetics, then logic. 'Thinking in Numbers' is not about an attempt to impress the reader but to include the reader, draw the reader in, by explaining my experiences - the beauty I feel in a prime number, for example.

When I'm explaining something to you, if I'm being long-winded, and twisty in a non-productive way, I could make you feel vaguely insulted. And you'd have a right to be.

I don't have a regular happy family like most people. My parents are separated; my dad married someone else and so did my mom. All my siblings are from my parents' other marriages. So yes, it is complicated, and I don't like talking about it or explaining this to everybody. But all this doesn't stop us from being close to each other.

I make a wonderful cure-all called Four Thieves, just like my mum did. It's cider vinegar, 36 cloves of garlic and four herbs, representing four looters of plague victims' homes in 1665 who had their sentences reduced from burning at the stake to hanging for explaining the recipe that kept them from catching the plague.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

There's a song called 'Live Blogging the Himmel Family Bris.' I kind of went for it here in terms of - it was really fun to be explaining ritual circumcision in Nashville - a lot of brises are done in hospitals, but many are done in people's homes, and there's a lot of food, and a lot of leftovers.

I think it's more interesting to throw people into a story and let them catch up instead of explaining and feeling like you have to slow down for them. I think audiences, for the most part, they don't want to be ahead of you.

Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them.

If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.

I have always enjoyed explaining physics. In fact it's more than just enjoyment: I need to explain physics.

For commercial books in a genre, readers' and editors' expectations may be fairly rigid. Some romance lines, for instance, issue fairly detailed writers' guidelines explaining exactly what must happen in a book they publish (and what must not).

I want my music to do the explaining.

My record was so bad that I was first rejected by the Peace Corps as a poor risk and possible troublemaker and was accepted as a volunteer only after a great deal of explaining and arguing.

Using cold facts and figures, leaders throughout the West must become more transparent with their citizens in explaining their decisions and their choices in global markets.

At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation.

I don't have a great talent for explaining myself in acting because I can't explain it.

From a systematic standpoint, I think that capitalism is the best system. I can spend a lot of time explaining why I like communism, but it is actually not a good solution. Nor is socialism. So, capitalism is the right model.

There was a kid that used to pick on me... he used to drop my food and beat me up in little corners. Nothing serious, but tease me. I remember knocking his food out of his hand one time when he in the middle of explaining something to his friends, and they all laughed, so I thought that was pretty nice. 'Well, there you go buddy.'

I'm used to explaining to people why my jokes were funny.

In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about.

I wanted to put a sheet in explaining what all the songs are about, but they didn't do it.

Throughout history, clothes represented who you were; they are a great vehicle for explaining who you are. During the Ching dynasty, for example, what you wore and how it was made reflected your status in society. People could literally read your clothes like a book, just by its color and how it was embroidered.

If I use the word 'khichdi' in my novel, I don't have to get into the trouble of explaining that it is a dish of rice and lentils. My Indian readers know it.

When I was 13, I asked for a guitar. And that's how I really started explaining my point of view.

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.

It is actually the neuroscientists and evolutionists who do the best job of explaining the reasons behind the most unreasonable behavior.

We're hopeful that the new language that we have submitted will serve as a rallying point for the different interests on this. It would allow us to concentrate on putting forward and explaining Learn and Earn.

With the referees coming into the room before the game and explaining the rules,

We're still looking at job growth, but not enough to prevent unemployment from rising. If there were no special factors explaining this, it would be a rather dramatic piece of news.

We're looking for creativity and a fun way of explaining the five classifications (G, PG, 14A, 18A, and R), with particular emphasis on the Parental Guidance rating.

It's very hard not to be condescending when you're explaining something to an idiot.

When you start explaining why something's funny or finding a formula for it I think it loses some of its funniness.

Stop explaining yourself. Shut up and act!

If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.

When you raise the alert level, you've got to do it in a way that you're explaining and laying out as much as you can about why it is that you're doing it, what you hope to achieve from it, ... Late Edition.

The prime minister was very closed last week, but was more open to the idea of amending the law today. Almost everyone agrees that we must do something, not because of the mobilization of the unions, but because the battle of explaining the law has been lost with the young.

The prime minister has a lot of explaining to do.

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.

Sending people a check is a totally deceptive way to sell a product. If you want to sell a product, send a nice brochure explaining why it's a good deal. You shouldn't have to trick people into buying it.

So for instance a few weeks before the Madrid bombing they put out a strategy explaining why they thought that Spain was a weak link in the coalition in Iraq, why it was crucial to get America out of Iraq ... for the sake of future radical Islamist expansion.

She's really explaining things to them that they probably knew when they were kids. Now, as they're growing up ... they're starting to analyze everything to death they kind of forget those simple logical things that kids know.

She did a good job of explaining what has been a veiled policy, ... She has a vision of democracy in the Middle East as a means of eliminating terrorism, but there is an inadequate roadmap for implementing that strategy. We just didn't hear about it.

Now you've got someone admitting exactly what the motivation was and explaining all the avenues they used.

Right now, I'm putting a lot on myself as receiver to help the other guys. The strength of this group of receivers is that they want to learn. Last year the coaches were explaining the new offense to us and we just listened. This year we're asking more questions and we're eager to learn.

I was showing a man and telling his story and explaining how ill he was, and it was a live camera and all of a sudden I realized that he was dying.

I would have preferred someone explaining information about each area and what possibly was going to be planned.

If they don't choose me, they'll have some explaining to do to the Republican voters in this district, to justify their reasoning.

I apologize for not fully explaining that there had been a change in the plan.

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

From now on, this administration will find it difficult to muster support on the right without explaining why it should be forthcoming. The days of the blank check have ended.

Further work continues to be necessary in order to make this possible, including explaining what we plan to do to European public opinion, as well as to our international partners, including the US but also China too.

He is absolutely frustrated that people don't understand the difference between him wanting to be cooperative with the police and not having a press conference on Pennsylvania Avenue and explaining everything about his life since he went to high school,

We're playing really well right now. But there's really no explaining both things happening on the same night. All I can say is there must have been a full moon out.

We take these issues very seriously. We realized that we needed to do a better job of explaining how the industry works.

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

What won't work is an approach which just says 'We have decided what we are going to do and we are just going to spend a lot more time explaining it to you'.

His voice was authoritative, gravelly, almost grandfatherly in some ways, ... He had a voice that made him sound like an older relative explaining an important bit of business to you.

He was explaining what I should have done on the play. He's not the type of guy to show anybody up anyway. It wasn't nothing. I mean, he was telling me what I should have done. He didn't tell me anything that I didn't tell myself, though.

I think it gives us a base for explaining why we had this enormous response to Viagra.

It brings some newness, some freshness. Any time a change is made, the newness of the teammates, everybody is on their P's and Q's a little bit. I see our guys helping the new guys and explaining things to them. That's good. That's a bonding thing that helps pull those guys together.

I think the prime minister didn't understand anything about what is going on. He wants to divide students by explaining generally that students today are preventing suburban youths from finding a job.

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.

I went to Iraq as a listener. I just got tired of watching the news every night and hearing generals and politicians talking about the economics and the politics of the war, and never explaining the human cost of the war. I just wanted to go there and listen to people.

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

Over the next few days, ... I will be explaining the American position to leaders in the countries I visit while making it clear that in confronting the clear and present danger posed by Iraqi lawlessness, the diplomatic string is running out.

Risk managers who saw their renewal prices drop said they felt lucky, because those who experienced the hurricane effect are now explaining to their management why renewal premiums just went through the roof. The real question is whether Katrina and Rita will have a lasting effect and strengthen the market for a time -- potentially in all lines of business, not just property -- or whether this is a short-term blip in what has proved to be a pretty resolute soft market.

reflection, which I shall devote to explaining to my fellow citizens what my feelings are on this crisis and the means to remedy it.

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.

I think one of the things that we need to be doing over the next several months is explaining the double-hosting model, which is in effect the national championship game rotating through the four bowls. I think there might be some confusion as to how the teams get to the (title) game.

I think he's got a lot of explaining to do, and depending on how he does, I think will determine whether or not he has a problem or not.

Most Americans think the state of the union is in pretty difficult shape right now. The president's going to have a lot of explaining to do.

Michelin will have to do a bit of explaining with only three stars at the top. Most of the newspaper reviewers here go up to four stars.

While we were explaining the potential his home had, he gradually became more excited. Soon enough, he had sold his custom lot and planned to focus on remodeling his current home to suit his families needs.

We published several papers explaining how these crystals produce X-rays and electron beams, and they're very efficient in doing this. So using low-energy X-rays or low-energy electron beams - by which I mean similar to the energies that are used currently in medical imaging rather than treatment - we can produce a really high dose of electrons that can penetrate a very thin layer of the skin. If such a device can produce high enough dose, then we can possibly use it for cancer treatment - and we're not far from this goal.

Well, we look forward to explaining to (people) exactly what going to be done in the building and having the scientists go out in the community and talk to folks and explain what will be done in the building.

We have a very difficult time explaining this.

Two years ago, I had to make the call to my wife explaining that our two-week vacation was canceled. It's not always easy - everyone has plans and things they want to do.

Two years ago, I had to make the call to my wife explaining that our two-week vacation was canceled, ... It's not always easy - everyone has plans and things they want to do.

We open up the class explaining how the city wants to partner through the network with the police department to train residents on how to help us prevent crime in the community.

This is one of those times when explaining a feeling cannot measure up to actually having the feeling

We should keep in mind that it is easy to concoct stories explaining the past or to become confident about dubious scenarios of the future. We should view both explanations and prophecies with skepticism.

We did a special report explaining our involvement in it, a chronology of our participation. We told the entire back-story that most people didn't know about, how the source got involved, what deals he cut with '60 Minutes.'

We need to do a better job of explaining the potential effects of the cumulative impacts and the harm they cause.

We need to do a better job of explaining it.

Why aren't the banks explaining the rules of the game in online banking? Why don't they have flash screens at ATMs on the safety of their technology and steps for using it properly?

Explaining the unique characteristics of this unbalanced recovery is more like 'Murder on the Orient Express' than finding a smoking gun in somebody's hands. There are a lot of suspects.

Explaining metaphysics to the nation - / I wish he would explain his explanation.

You can learn a whole lot in a short period of time from a guide, as long as he's explaining what he wants you to do.