I like that: a little pressure on the understood boundaries of yourself. Sounded like something out of a self-awareness class, probably with… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
I understood that pain was real and sometimes things didn't last. Sometimes you just had to enjoy it while it lasts and… — Abbi Glines Copy Share Image
When I was a kid--10, 11, 12, 13--the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to… — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
You can take Hollywood for granted like I did, or you can dismiss it with the contempt we reserve for what we… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It was complicated. I understood it, mostly, but I had to think a little sideways to do it. — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
I don't think it's very difficult to bring a virginal, angst-ridden, hip-hop grunting white boy to the screen. Not that I have… — Josh Peck Copy Share Image
[At age 92:] There are places I'd like to return to. But not as I was then but as I am now.… — Leonora Carrington Copy Share Image
Being on the cover of 'Vogue' at 15 meant nothing to me. I never really understood what it was they were looking… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
As a non-western artist, you have to ask yourself a question fairly early in your life: do I want to become a… — Sarnath Banerjee Copy Share Image
I have never understood the importance of having children memorize battle dates. It seems like such a waste of mental energy. Instead,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are certain religions that require you to pray five times a day and I never understood why Christians aren't asked to… — Cathy Hughes Copy Share Image
I was always a feminist. My mother was a feminist; my grandmother was a feminist. I always understood women had to fight… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I believe if any of these candidates really understood that America is in the crosshairs of God, and that America will never… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
Esther, however, was the only woman who understood one very simple thing: in order to be able to find her, I first… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
the longer I live, the more necessary it seems to me to endure, to copy the whole dictation of existence to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Scientists themselves are of surprisingly little help. They find it difficult to talk of what they do because they tend to assume… — Bryan Appleyard Copy Share Image
In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never… — Helmut Lang Copy Share Image
Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The progression of a painter’s work…will be toward clarity; toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, and… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
Base words are uttered only by the base And can for such at once be understood; But noble platitudes — ah, there's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I've understood is that you have to put in the work, games need to be played, you have to do things… — Al Horford Copy Share Image
It was understood that nothing of a tender nature could possibly be confided to old Barley, by reason of his being totally… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I… — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
I always say about that movie [ Brokeback mountain], which I think maybe over time is more understood, is that this is… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image