We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.

- Abdolkarim Soroush

I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do.

- Alexis Korner

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

In the United States women develop MS at approximately twice the rate men do, and no one can explain why women are affected most often from the waist down.

- Annette Funicello

I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.

- Anne Stevenson

Never apologize. Never explain. Just get the thing done, and let them howl.

- Agnes Macphail

When I was twelve or thirteen, if you liked something that was outside of your friend group genre, you had to rationalize and explain it in some way. It's totally irrelevant, I think, now. I don't think anybody cares. Not young people, at least. Maybe journalists.

- Autre Ne Veut

Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities.

- Arthur Keith

Maybe it's just, I've always been to the less traveled places, in any topic, whether it's history, I always like to just choose the most obscure topic. And I don't know why I have that impulse. I can't really explain it but I've been doing that since I was a little kid.

- Andrew Bird

Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.

- Alexei Sayle

You have to be talented. You have to work hard; you have to get the right pieces flowin' for you at the right time. And that's just what happened to me. I can't explain what happened.

- Action Bronson

I had always been fascinated with Napoleon because he was a self-made emperor; Victor Hugo said, 'Napoleon's will to power,' and it was the title of my paper. And I submitted it to my teacher, and he didn't think I had written it. And he wanted me to explain it to him.

- August Wilson

I'm so unmaterialistic in every way. If you saw my apartment, it would explain a lot, I think. It's not so much a mess, but it just needs to have some feng shui or a real 'Queer Eye' makeover or whatever.

- Ariel Pink

I need to be able to explain myself in context.

- Adam Lambert

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

- Ayn Rand

I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.

- Anne Sullivan

I went through a period when I felt my film characters were having more fun than I was. It might partly explain why I ended up tattooed or doing certain extreme things in my life.

- Angelina Jolie

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

- Albert Einstein

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

- Albert Einstein

Explain to me what Italian-American culture is. We've been here 100 years. Isn't Italian-American culture American culture? That's because we're so diverse, in terms of intermarriage.

- Al Pacino