All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Once innocence--an all too-brief state of being, if such a one exists--encounters experience, it is transformed. If that transformation is understood, it… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
When we set goals, we are in command. Clearly understood goals bring our lives into focus just as a magnifying glass focuses… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I make movies in order to make things understood, not to be shocking. — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
They used to have a saying among the musicians on staff when I was with him, 'Sinatra never does anything the same… — Frank Sinatra Jr Copy Share Image
When actually, you have one identity made of different parts. Depending on where you are, at what time in your life, some… — eL Seed Copy Share Image
I thought I understood the story very well, because I've lived with it for so long. But movies change and take on… — Andrew McCarthy Copy Share Image
I had quite a tumultuous start to my career. I used to have two really good games but then my form would… — Douglas Costa Copy Share Image
We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence,… — Henry Lawson Copy Share Image
I didn't have much ambition, but I always had an idea in the back of my mind that I wanted to act.… — Michael Madsen Copy Share Image
I've voted for Republicans who were strong on defense, who believed in a free and open economy but who also understood that… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
I didn't know enough as a writer to understand why I needed to do this, but I understood in a very gut… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
My wife is from Brighton so I got a bit of stick for going to Palace even though in my first three-and-a-half… — Glenn Murray Copy Share Image
The sciences are said, and they are truly said, to have a mutual connection, that any one of them may be the… — Samuel Horsley Copy Share Image
Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I do not oppose violence simply because it is counterproductive. I oppose it because it betrays animal rights philosophy. Those who resort… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
When a man can listen to a woman's feelings without getting angry and frustrated, he gives her a wonderful gift. He makes… — John Gray Copy Share Image
There are people I've worked with who have never understood how fashion works. They keep saying they love fashion, yet they've never… — Nicolas Ghesquiere Copy Share Image
I understood that the teacher was not eing dismissive, that the problem would be addressed. But, without extra upset. A noncombative response,… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
I've never understood why we would want to deny all the joys - and the challenges - of marriage to anyone. Which… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
