#stand

People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater. ↗

— Minnie Maddern Fiske

#bad #beyond #good #ignorant #literature

However, the Medicare prescription drug benefit has changed, and if the nearly 3,000 seniors I have met through 12 town halls can represent a sample of opinion, many seniors do not yet understand the prescription drug program and do not plan to sign up for coverage. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#changed #coverage #halls #however #i

One of the great problems of the world today is undoubtedly this problem of not being able to talk to scientists, because we don't understand science; they can't talk to us because they don't understand anything else, poor dears. ↗

— Michael Flanders

#anything #because #being #dears #else

I don't understand boys - just ask my husband. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#husband #i #just #understand

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#see #sees #sitting #standing #young

But you really - I always think that a director has got to adapt to whatever the needs of the actor are. You know, so if you take someone like Eddie Murphy, who is not a big fan of rehearsal. You know he comes out of stand-up. He comes - it's all about capturing the moment - in the moment, you know. ↗

— Bill Condon

#actor #adapt #always #big #big fan

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ↗

— Confucius

#hear #i #i do #i remember #i see

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. ↗

— Confucius

#inferior #man #right #sell #superior

I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder. ↗

— Sean Connery

#disorder #fight #get #how #i

I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men." "Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything. ↗

— Jane Austen

#clichés #constancy #double-standards #education #feminism