Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.
Lawrence Clark Powell

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

A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.
Albert J. Nock

I understood immediately that to get success I had to make for the front door, not for the back one.
Jean Gabin

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.
George Gurdjieff

My first thought when I came here was that I understood why there are so many great Irish writers - because there is something mystical in the air. There's always this cloudy, moody sky and it's challenging.
Christopher Meloni

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
Elia Kazan

When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.
Gene Tierney

My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.
Gene Tierney

Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?
Theodore Bikel

The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.
Christopher Lasch

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.
Christopher Lasch

The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role.
Sydney Schanberg

Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.
Edward Sapir

Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother.
Lorna Luft

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

Your voice is your tool and represents you. It's very important to have a good voice where you can be understood.
Jacqueline Bisset

There are so many things I'd like to change in the industry. Everything from the reliance of style over substance to their reluctance to hire me for big budget blockbusters, but the thing I would love most would be if they understood people don't have to be Hollywood beautiful to be sexy or interesting.
Colin Mochrie

I was at first but I mean I thought at first that I wanted a little bit of that in there but the reasoning behind what they cut and what they kept really makes sense and it really played for me when I saw it yesterday, it all worked and was understood.
Brandon Routh