The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we've come through together.… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father. — Jeanne Tripplehorn Copy Share Image
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have spoken, and I was understood. It's not like I'm a tragic person who wasn't understood. All those books are in… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I have never understood the clamour for waif-like women whose flesh acts merely as a thin veil for their bones - much… — Clare Balding Copy Share Image
I had proposed to HBO a series about the city cops in Rome at the time of Nero. What had interested me… — David Milch Copy Share Image
. . . is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race? — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
A certain motion becomes understood when it is referred to a force; certain sensations, to matter; certain changes outside, to law; certain… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If you want success badly enough, you must weigh each thought, action, and experience. The reward you reap will be the knowledge… — Thomas D Copy Share Image
The world doesn’t fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
I recognized that there are some well-known, little understood, and seldom practiced laws that we must live by if we wish to… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Nobody, she felt, understood her-not her mother, not her father, not her sister or brother, none of the girls or boys at… — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
I understood that every flower created by Him is beautiful, that the brilliance of the rose and the whiteness of the lily… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When people can't use you, they ridicule what you represent. I was lucky that I understood that, because when one does not… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Some women can't stand being pregnant, getting big and bloated, and hauling around a giant stomach, and some women, for reasons probably… — Rich Cohen Copy Share Image
It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Too often the educational value of doing well what is done, however little, is overlooked. One thing well done prepares the mind… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
The clarity of Scripture means that the Bible is written in such a way that its teachings are able to be understood… — Wayne Grudem Copy Share Image
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
In Reykjavik, Iceland, where I was born, you are in the middle of nature surrounded by mountains and ocean. But you are… — Bjork Copy Share Image
If I were to summarize in one sentence the single most important principle I have learned in the field of interpersonal relations,… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
People expect that they should be understood by you but seldom put in an effort to understand you. — Amit Abraham Copy Share Image
In the end, perhaps we should simply imagine a joke; a long joke that's continually retold in an accent too thick and… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme. — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image