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

People never understood that there was Brian and The Boz. They were two completely different people.

..he understood far more deeply than anyone else the loneliness that lurked beneath his jaunty mask.

I understood immediately that to get success I had to make for the front door, not for the back one.

If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.

Eventually, my eyes were opened, and I really understood nature. I learned to love at the same time.

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

No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.

These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand. They are only meant to terrify & comfort.

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.

Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.

I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them.

Because God and the devil could be one and the same thing, and everybody understood it in his own way.

Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood.

Bertelsmann understood our vision when they first invested in us... They still believe in that vision.

It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.

Alfred Nobel really understood very well the necessary supra-natural character of the human enterprise.

I don't think we fully understood what the implications could be when we found out we were doing 'SNL.'

I have never understood why one's affections must be confined, as once with women, to a single country.

Donald Trump really understood how to float a story, how to float a rumor, how to manipulate the truth.

In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated.

Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.

Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.

Despite our differences, we did have a history. No one understood where I was coming from the way he did.

Chekhov understood that people are mysterious and can't be reduced to what we nowadays call 'motivation.'

I've never understood the allure of putting your name on a building that was built with taxpayers' money.

The songs I write are about searching, and they're ambiguous - always to be understood in different ways.

I've never believed in or understood romantic love. Love at first sight was always a complete joke to me.

George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept.

In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.

If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.

Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.

To say it very honestly, removed from ego, standup is just a thing that I understood, a God-given ability.

My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'

If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.

We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood.

I miss the movies. Still, I understood that my kind of movie has had its day. I thought it was over for me.

If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you.

As we mature through the years, we access more deeply information we had only abstractly understood before.

As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.

What an amazing thing to feel known and loved, to feel understood, to walk through life with another person.

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role.

It is always to be understood that a lady takes all you detract from the rest of her sex to be a gift to her.

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