#understood

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it. ↗

— James Thurber

#appreciative #audience #cannot #chuckle #comedy

Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about. ↗

— Gerard Way

#anyone #anything #band #cool #different

When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why. ↗

— Katey Sagal

#father #grew #grow #grow up #hard

I often think about image, and image is something that - but in truth, the real artistic process, as I've understood it, is 95 percent intuitive, like seat-of-the-pants, at-the-moment decisions that you can't even explain, you know? ↗

— George Saunders

#artistic #decisions #even #explain #i

Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view. ↗

— Jenny Shipley

#achieved #development #however #peace #point

Love can be understood only "from the inside," as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it. ↗

— Robert C. Solomon

#language #lives #love #only #someone

Walt understood all of those things, and even common things about people. For instance: Usually you get your idea of what kind of day it is by looking at the horizon, because the horizon is your eye level. So what Walt did is to eliminate the horizon. ↗

— John Hench

#because #common #common things #day #did

With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport. ↗

— Clara Hughes

#endurance #especially #fully #level #never

I cannot be understood in three minutes. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#i #minutes #three #understood

I'm a big fan of the misunderstood, the vilified, the underdog, the breaking of myths. ↗

— Dominic Monaghan

#big fan #breaking #fan #i #misunderstood