Understood Quotes

Her best friend was gone and nobody understood that no amount of makeup, fresh air or shopping was going to fill the hole in her heart.

"... he had understood, better than anyone ... the beauty that grew out of the simple knowledge that everything, no matter how small or large it might be, was a perfect example of what it was."

Paintings must be understood through the eyes, and that's not the word either. No writing, no talking, no singing, no dancing will explain them. They are the final, the nth whoopee of sight.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood.

Some people think to be strong is to never feel pain. However the strongest people are the ones that have felt pain, understood it, accepted it and learned from it.

Contradictions if well understood and managed can spark off the fires of invention. Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left is the graveyard of creativity.

You are not at home where your residence are but where you are understood.

John needed to escape his reality. I understood completely but I couldn't go along with him.

I've never quite understood the idea of a "season." Whenever an artistic director says to me, 'I have this slot,' I always start to feel we're parking cars or something.

Job found contentment and even joy, outside the context of comfort, health or stability. He understood the story was not about him, and he cared more about the story then he did about himself.

You are actually constructing... what your head understood about what your eyes saw.

Evolution by natural selection is not an idle hypothesis. The genetic variation on which selection acts is well understood in principle all the way down to the molecular level.

People are so... seem so chaotic internally, but being filtered through some form, like making a record, sort of filters it down into something that can be understood.

If man understood that "what I create has nothing to do with what anybody else is creating" then he wouldn't be so afraid of what others are doing.

I don't think Islam has really been understood as a product of globalization. It might be one of these instances where globalism and tribalism ultimately go hand in hand.

I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.

In most polls there are always about 5 percent of the people who 'don't know.' What isn't generally understood is that it's the same people in every poll.

Church bells beyond the stars heard, the soul's blood, The land of spices; something understood.

Our Founding Fathers understood that our country would survive and flourish if our Nation was committed to good character and an unyielding dedication to liberty and justice for all.

I am interposing overlaid planes a short way off... To make it understood that things are in front of each other instead of being scattered in space.

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.

I've never understood why it's a negative to showcase a talented, smart woman who also happens to be attractive.

It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.

Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world.

Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith!

This man, I say, is most perfect who shall have understood everything for himself, after having devised what may be best afterward and unto the end.

I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists.

The Greeks, who knew everything, understood that without the orgy there is no middle ground between bedlam and Toronto ... we need the healing grace of the orgy in this country.

Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.

I never understood the need for a "live" audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.

I understood. I have understood. I do understand.

My teeth became sour as I listened to his story. It was then that I understood why he was quiet all the time.

Yes, Harry, blessed as I am with extraordinary brainpower, I understood everything you told me. I think you might even consider the possibility that I understood more than you did.

Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.

I just kind of understood it, and I threw my love for others and love for life into the character, and was having a blast. I loved playing Dharma. I loved it!

The rules are simple and easily understood by anyone who has once seen the game, but to the totally uninitiated they appear to be hopelessly unintelligible.

Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them and had great respect for people, there was nothing cynical about Walt.

I have never understood why one's affections must be confined, as once with women, to a single country.

The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should. I've got Greenspan's book.

Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme.

I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is - its irresistible charm - a fire.

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.

Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.

The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.

To me, I've never understood why there is any question about are women as funny as men.

No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.

I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure

It wasn't until I hung out with Dead Prez and understood how to make, you know, raps with a message sound cool that I was able to just write "All Falls Down" in 15 minutes.

I'm not driven by being understood.