#understood

Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me. ↗

— Lennart Meri

#happening #i #me #really #soviet

But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood? ↗

— Francis Wright

#been #civilized #civilized nations #engaged #enlightened

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#follows #form #function #joined #misunderstood

Hubbard set up the Church of Scientology in Hollywood in 1954 for a reason. He understood that celebrity was increasingly a feature of American public life, and celebrities themselves were going to be worshiped as minor deities were in the ancient world. The idea was: if you could get them, think how many people would follow. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#american public #ancient #celebrities #celebrity #church

No data on air propellers was available, but we had always understood that it was not a difficult matter to secure an efficiency of 50% with marine propellers. ↗

— Orville Wright

#always #available #data #difficult #efficiency

I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#bing crosby #crosby #gimmick #him #his

In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian. ↗

— Sugar Ray Leonard

#felt #funny #had #hair #i

We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we're falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing. ↗

— Jude Law

#brain #falling #feel #go #go home

I expected to be shot at any moment and if they had done I would have understood, that they couldn't take risks with someone foolhardy or so unpredictable. ↗

— Laurie Lee

#done #expected #foolhardy #had #i

Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard. ↗

— Al Lewis

#graduate #had #harvard #many #more