Understand Quotes

Christianity takes this beating that I really don't understand and yet you can't say anything negative about the Muslims because that's horrible, you can't say anything negative about other faiths.

If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.

I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of technique they have. But there's very little that I think satisfies you intellectually or emotionally.

We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.

Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.

I'm the most cynical person, and I know what that sounds like when you say, I don't drink and drive, and I don't. But I know people look at that with skepticism, and I understand.

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue.

I can understand that the whole world is interested in my wife Madonna. That's even why I married her.