The blue collar milieu was something that I really understood and resonated with me and I thought was underrepresented in American cinema. — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
Because what nobody ever understood is that I, too, wanted to be a somebody. But how do you go through life wanting… — Debbi Fields Copy Share Image
it wasn't until I hung out with Dead Prez and understood how to make, you know, raps with a message sound cool… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Photography was not invented to serve a clearly understood function. There was in fact widespread uncertainty, even among its inventors, as to… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom. — William James Copy Share Image
Because I grew up in Chicago, I didn't have an emotional relationship to segregation. I understood the facts and stories, but there… — Diane Nash Copy Share Image
When the music industry started collapsing, the logical people understood that the only place to go for shelter was the underground. If… — will.i.am Copy Share Image
This was a tragic event in human history, but by paying tribute to the Armenian community we ensure the lessons of the… — Jerry Costello Copy Share Image
My aim is to be understood by everyone. I reject the 'depth' that people demand nowadays, into which you can never descend… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
The individual may be understood as one particular focal point at which the whole universe expresses itself - as an incarnation of… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
When I was working in south films, I never understood how films were made. — Ileana D'Cruz Copy Share Image
To resume, in a few words, the system of the Imperial government, as it was instituted by Augustus, and maintained by those… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It's a beautiful religion and I wish I understood it more. No, I don't want to understand it all. It's beautiful because… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my… — Kara DioGuardi Copy Share Image
A true proposition is a proposition belief which would never lead to such disappointment so long as the proposition is not understood… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
I don’t have a definition of God, because I’ve never really understood that word. People have different understandings of it and it’s… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Even the written history [of Abraham Lincoln's times] is poorly understood by most people. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
There's Hobbes, who understood in the 1640s that the sovereign is not an appointee of God, or even a figure of superior… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the… — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
Pain is not something to be feared; it is something to be understood. — Pete Egoscue Copy Share Image
Together we understood what terror was: you're not human anymore. You're a shadow. You slip out of your own skin, like molting,… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Any 'transmitting' device or applied technical method, which gets in the way of the 'transmission'/message/story, etc., is a negative element, garbling that… — Alex Toth Copy Share Image
It was possible, he understood, for a person's life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
Have you ever noticed how some rooms exude a certain energy, warmth, and a harmony of spirit? If you have, then you… — Charlotte Moss Copy Share Image
![“Even the written history [of Abraham Lincoln's times] is poorly…” quote by George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c7b/george-saunders-317_abraham_even-the-written-history-of-abraham-linc_2290965.jpg)
