I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.
If you want to be with somebody who gets you, you prefer collusion to desire, safety to excitement (sometimes good things to prefer but not always the things most wanted). The wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we h...
To my mind, ‘magic’ is the hard-to-define quality of the things that stir up mystical feelings like amazement, curiosity, imagination, and above all wonder. Magic is that which renders something beautiful in a spiritual sense. It is that which ma...
No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.
None of us understood that the body is a connected thing.
What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.
Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.
Sufi secrets are perceived, not understood by words.
The imperfections of religions can only be understood by their unfollowers, not followers.
What I was caught up in, I dimly understood, was the embodiment of history
It does not matter what you write in English nobody has understood it anyway.
The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role.
Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.
I understood that 'The Yellow Birds' would be a peculiar representation of the experience of being at war. I intended it to be so.
'Business,' properly understood, is so central to every aspect of our civilization that Republicans should proudly announce that they are indeed 'the party of business.'
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people.
Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.
A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.