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Understood Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides
- We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors…
- We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to…
- But maybe the Charm Bracelets understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value the world placed in…
- She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, anything else.
- Mitchell had answered that, as far as he understood them, mystical experiences were significant only to the extent that they changed a person's conception of…
- The more she thought about it, the more Madeleine understood that extreme solitude didn't just describe the way she was feeling about Leonard. It explained…
More Understood Quotes
- When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its… — Antonin Artaud
- My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never… — Lee Atwater
- I don't want to convert people to Buddhism — all major religions, when understood properly, have the same potential for good. — Dalai Lama
- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood
- While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than… — John Adams
- Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that… — Theodore Bikel
- I wasn't funny as a kid. I remember enjoying comedians, but I never understood it was a job choice or a profession. — Elayne Boosler
- People never understood that there was Brian and The Boz. They were two completely different people. — Brian Bosworth