#understood

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#fiction #hope #i #i think #novels

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

— Dusty Springfield

#i #know #misquoted #misunderstood #most

In the beginning, I would find a character I understood. That was my focus. Not now - but you basically get offered the exact same thing you just did. Which I find hilarious. I did 'The Vow,' and then I had every love story you can imagine thrown at me. And now I'm getting offers for comedies. ↗

— Channing Tatum

#beginning #character #comedies #did #every

Women are made to be loved, not understood. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#made #understood #women #women are

Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly. ↗

— Malcolm Bradbury

#christians #corruption #grow #innocent #old

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. ↗

— C. Wright Mills

#both #history #individual #life #neither

I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#characters #come #creating #how #i

As I learn more and more about the six-year extension of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, it's obvious to me that NFL owners understood that they were going to get a new deal done at all costs. ↗

— Ron Jaworski

#agreement #bargaining #collective #collective bargaining #costs

I have never understood the Iowa caucus. ↗

— Larry King

#i #iowa #never #understood

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#confines #experience #himself #his #leader