Understood Quotes

I understand why people achieve a level of fame and disappear, I never understood it before, but it's an attractive prospect to walk away from it all.

Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.

Your voice is your tool and represents you. It's very important to have a good voice where you can be understood.

Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.

What do you think, that a dollar in a savings account is freedom? Maybe you have understood nothing I have said.

A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.

Well, let's say we acknowledged the School of French Painting - the Paris School of painting as the leading force and vitality of the time. I think that was understood and felt and experienced.

I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.

A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.

Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.

Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket... the least understood and the least noticed.

To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term.

I understood public relations and always maintained a high profile.

Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings, they're too afraid to express those feelings, or they lack the skills to communicate and be understood.

Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem is to bring a work of art in that medium into another medium formed on different principles and heard and understood in a different way.

Do you know, Michael, he was - he touched the hearts of many people around the world. That's important. That's why the world cried when he passed because they understood him.

If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.

I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.'

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.

A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the idea it presents.

My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.

It seemed glamorous when I used to go into work and get to be on a trading floor or see how the business worked a little bit before I ever understood what it was.

I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined.

Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to me, and that it had been only the sun that was lacking to open all its germs, and buds to the light.