Nature is never so admired as when she is understood. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
Being pregnant is a wonderful thing. I have never understood why people make such a big deal of it though. — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
I miss the movies. Still, I understood that my kind of movie has had its day. I thought it was over for… — Debbie Reynolds Copy Share Image
Chekhov understood that people are mysterious and can't be reduced to what we nowadays call 'motivation.' — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood. — Victor Wooten Copy Share Image
What was great about the 50s is that for one brief moment - maybe, say, six weeks - nobody understood art. — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
My mother is extraordinary. She understood me and never tried to hold me back. — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
“Anyone who wishes to be understood had better be sure he has made himself intelligible.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If men understood domestic economy half as well as women do, then their political economy and their entire consequent statecraft would not… — James Stephens Copy Share Image
It would be like describing colors to someone blind from birth: The words might be understood, but the concept would remain mysterious… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
I've never understood the notion that actors and actresses should look great on-screen just because they're on-screen. That doesn't make sense to… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
I actually think if the American people understood what was going on instead of just being told tidbits by this administration, they… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Divinity is in its omniscience and omnipotence like a wheel, a circle, a whole, that can neither be understood, nor divided, nor… — Hildegard of Bingen Copy Share Image
I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I've been in the business since I was 16, so I've had a 14-year career. I've always had acting in my blood.… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
Creating a portrait of a female point of view in an environment that we've pretty much exclusively understood through a male perspective… — Meera Menon Copy Share Image
maybe she had become tired of being the girlfriend of a condemned man. It also occured to me that maybe she was… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There are a lot of negotiators that really will give in on a deal because being understood is more important than getting… — Christopher Voss Copy Share Image
No great player blundered oftener than I done. I was champion of the world for twenty-eight years because I was twenty years… — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
There was a language in the world that everyone understood, a language the boy had used throughout the time that he was… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
You see weird things driving... I've never understood log trucks, sometimes you'll be out on the highway, you see two big giant… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
It is not understood that before life an individual decides to live. A self is not simply the accidental personification of the… — Seth Copy Share Image
There is no neatness in any life- great or small. It is only an illusion men foolishly pursue. All lived lives are… — Tarun J. Tejpal Copy Share Image
The first objection to Darwinism is that it is only a guess and was never anything more. It is called a "hypothesis,"… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
There is only one basic desire that motivates the spiritual seeker-to make the experience of God, of divine bliss and joy, the… — Douglas Bloch Copy Share Image
All women should inform themselves of the condition of their sex and of their own position. It must necessarily follow that the… — Harriet Martineau 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
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
Too many poets write poems which are only difficult on the surface, difficult because the dramatic situation is easily misunderstood. It's not… — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
Have I then no work to work in this great matter of my pardon? None. What work canst thou work? What work… — Horatius Bonar Copy Share Image