Quotes with (understood

Quotes 81 till 100 of 118.

  • Bryan Callen Some comics really thrive on being disrespectful, especially toward women, and it's somehow understood as edgy, but I'm the opposite. I've never liked curse words for that reason.
    Bryan Callen
    American stand-up comedian, actor, writer (1967 - )
    - +
     0
  • Carolina Herrera Thank God my hair is always the same. And I get dressed very quickly. I am not one of those people who spend three hours getting dressed. I never understood that. What do you do for the two and a half hours after the half hour it takes you to get ready?
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
    - +
     0
  • Doris Lessing That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
    - +
     0
  • Bruce Jackson The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
    - +
     0
  • Ben Affleck The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
    - +
     0
  • Alfred Russel Wallace The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
    - +
     0
  • Constantin Brancusi The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.
    - +
     0
  • Thomas Hobbes The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
    - +
     0
  • Francis Lockier The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that.
    - +
     0
  • Branford Marsalis The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
    - +
     0
  • Elbert Hubbard The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
    - +
     0
  • Berry Gordy The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you did things, or they hear things from other people.
    Berry Gordy
    American record executive, record and film producer and songwriter (1929 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
    - +
     0
  • Robert Louis Stevenson There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
    - +
     0
  • Roy Lichtenstein There is a relationship between cartooning and people like MirĂ³ and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.
    - +
     0
  • Barbara Amiel There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
    - +
     0
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Thou hast a voice, great Mountain, to repeal. Large codes of fraud and woe; not understood by all, but which the wise, and great, and good interpret, or make felt, or deeply feel.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
    - +
     0
  • William Blake Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
    - +
     0
  • B. F. Skinner Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is the thing he understands least.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
    - +
     0
  • Caleb Cushing Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
    - +
     0
All (understood famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 5)