#understood

Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world. ↗

— Nina Simone

#concert #concert pianist #dedicate #his #i

One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as it relates to the role one has been hired to portray. ↗

— Tom Skerritt

#been #best #condition #director #experienced

I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly. ↗

— Dusty Springfield

#i #know #misquoted #misunderstood #most

I never quite understood these actors - though I envy them sometimes - who can lie out for a year or two. I feel as though time is a real pressing issue, and I want to get as much work done in the time that I have left. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#envy #feel #get #i #i feel

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#attentions #consists #courtship #nor #number

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#felt #haven #i #life #music

Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#both #common #context #cultural #dante

They understood why I left ER. It wasn't just about a guy. ↗

— Sherry Stringfield

#guy #i #just #left #understood

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#concluded #couched #i #i am #profound

At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn't possible to save mankind. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#creative #creative life #good #humanity #i