Understood Quotes

Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.

Ezra Pound
- Public
- Latin
- Educated
There was nothing in this world that was not a con, suddenly I understood this. Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.

Miranda July
- Lost
- Nothing
- Mattered

I understood that life is lived most fully in the imagination - that, ironically, imagination is the key to reality.

Betty Eadie
My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life.

Michel Legrand
I'm a child of the sixties. I grew up with a president who was a crook, who put us into the most unpopular war in history, who had no communication with people under thirty. I had seen the Symbionese Liberation Army and the Panthers and the Diggers; I understood what they were about.

Jerry Heller
A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.

Ernst Haas
I formed several possible stories out of her speech, formed them at once, so it was less like I failed to understand than that I understood in chords, understood in a plurality of worlds.

Ben Lerner
Oh, what the hell did I know? I went to the set the first day in full makeup and the director told me to take it off. So I did the film without makeup. I had nothing to do with anything I did. I never understood why I was so famous.

Ava Gardner