I want to be sure...that nothing is done on these veterans. Is that understood?...Is the word out? That they are not to… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
There are so many things I'd like to change in the industry. Everything from the reliance of style over substance to their… — Colin Mochrie Copy Share Image
With someone like Cole Porter, Perry Como, Louis Armstrong, or Bessie Smith, you had people who understood emotion, could translate it into… — Melody Gardot Copy Share Image
I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith-it strikes me as a sloppy… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
In 1966, while working on a feature about a Picasso exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, I recorded the pre-opening… — Micha Bar-Am Copy Share Image
I started off in this business in 1998, and I didn't fit in. There was no place for me, and I always… — Ryan Murphy Copy Share Image
The obligation on us is to communicate the truth so that it is understood. The belief will take care of itself. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation. — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
No religion I ever encountered made any sense. None are consistent. Most gods are megalomaniacs and paranoid psychotics by their worshippers' description.… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
Because by now Elinor had understood this, too: A longing for books was nothing compared with what you could feel for human… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I understood more what Nancy Reagan and Ronald Reagan, what they were coming from. Kind of the horrors of their childhoods that… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
It's the honest point of view of an artist: You have to please.I'd like viewers to come away from my films unsure… — Jean-Pierre Melville Copy Share Image
This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll dice, and understand that the… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Happiness comes from self-knowledge. Self-knowledge means that you have understood your mind. Your mind is the whole universe. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
With every character that I've ever played, I felt like I just understood the way that she thought and how she was. — Josephine Langford Copy Share Image
I have been misunderstood perhaps more than anyone else ever, but it has not affected me, for the simple reason that there… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Turkeys are misunderstood. Once I adopted turkeys, I understood this large bird to be a great companion. — Linda Blair Copy Share Image
I never had a single female professor throughout my whole education, from the beginning of university to the end. Even all the… — Margaret Geller Copy Share Image
Well now I'm no hero, that's understood. All the redemption I can offer girl, is beneath this dirty hood. With a chance… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems.… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
