#explain

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#because #brains #effort #explain #how

If you start with a good idea, you can encapsulate it in a phrase and explain it. I like high-concept films. Everyone can get hold of it. I don't think there's any harm in that at all. ↗

— Jane Campion

#encapsulate #everyone #explain #films #get

When you do not have the dialogue to explain things, you will use everything to show and to tell the story. I think that this is what makes you believe that it is impeccable. ↗

— Michel Hazanavicius

#dialogue #everything #explain #i #i think

Then a friend of Jim's suggested we make a theme song to explain the story, and this is where the Mads came from. Josh and I wrote it into the theme song. ↗

— Joel Hodgson

#explain #friend #i #into #jim

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

#adopt #communities #existence #explain #explanation

I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that shape the subject - the cultural and sociological geography - to capture them in a way that will explain them no matter what they are doing. ↗

— David Maraniss

#capture #cultural #doing #explain #focus

You can’t explain love” he said out loud. “That’s how it gets ruined. ↗

— Simon Van Booy

#love #love

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain. ↗

— Georges Braque

#cannot #explain #only #thing #valuable

The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians. ↗

— Geronimo

#government #indian #indians #misdeeds #never

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