#stood

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

The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times. ↗

— James Buchan

#antiquity #commerce #cycle #famine #feast

Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#culture #dominant #everything #opposite #stood

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me. ↗

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

#man #me #only #understand #understood

I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was. ↗

— Mary Cheney

#by the time #different #high #high school #i

My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#departure #described #hollywood #i #understood

I never understood the idea that you're supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn't something I relate to at all. The goal is to continue in good and bad, all of it. ↗

— Diane Keaton

#continue #down #get #goal #good

There was no doubt that sooner or later we will fight. But we will fight not in the way of the dissidents' protests. We understood that we needed to be as professional as possible. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#doubt #fight #later #needed #no doubt

Jesus was a man for simple people. He didn't make his messages incredibly complex. If you were a person that had the eyes to see and the ears to hear... then his message was easily understood. ↗

— Brandon Andress

#ears #eyes #hear #jesus #jesus-christ