#stood

I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan. ↗

— Pat Boone

#backed #because #best #caused #causes

I thought I'd be wasting my time to go to commercial record companies and make demos for them, because don't forget, I was doing what I was doing and nobody understood what I was doing. ↗

— John Fahey

#commercial #companies #demos #doing #forget

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding. ↗

— Anatole Broyard

#disturbed #greater #having #misunderstanding #misunderstood

I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#books #confident #continued #even #eventually

I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding. ↗

— David Antin

#everybody #everybody else #find #giving #giving up

The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days. ↗

— Clement Attlee

#days #five #glass #house #like

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#consider #forgotten #freedom #i #joy

I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting a lot of energy into that, instead of into expressing himself freely and feeling comfortable. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#comfortable #energy #english-speaking #expressing #feeling

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

#animal #certain #i #male #men

Christopher Reeve understood that... everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered over his broken body. ↗

— Patti Davis

#again #begins #belief #body #broken