I was a smart kid and I was not understood by my parents.
There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.
Somebody under 30, if the name Frank Zappa came up, they would just say, "Who?" To me that didn't sit well, because I felt my dad's accomplishments in music should be better known, not just in a popular way, but better understood.
Then I realised that I was the god on this occasion. I had tried to help the bluebottle, but it wouldn't let me. And then I felt sorry for God because I understood his frustration. Sometimes when people offer a helping hand, it gets pushed away. People always want to help themselves first.
It'd be nice to have someone who understood some of the things that went on in my head.
The Bible is a supernatural book and can be understood only by supernatural aid.
I love you forever" didn't always need to be spoken to be understood.
I've never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally.
There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir? and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.
No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood
What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.
I have never understood, for example, how come a child can climb up on the roof, scale the TV antenna, and rescue the cat. . . yet cannot walk down the hallway without grabbing both walls with his grubby hands for balance.
I looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the masses of humanity, and I saw that, not two or three, or ten, but hundreds, thousands, millions, had so understood the meaning of life that they were able both to live and to die. All these people were well acquainted with the meaning of life and death, quietly labored, endured privation and suffering, lived and died, and saw in all this, not a vain, but a good thing.
Dreams - Language in a dream is unspoken but understood. Words get in the way.
Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to be understood or yield herself.
Modern materialists and religious extremists alike lack the spiritual animistic reverence for non-human beings that every culture once understood as a given.
Love properly understood is God—the font of all creation and the ultimate goal of all desires; God properly understood is love.
to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.
Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated.
For me, I understood the gift of being able to empower others and to not do everything yourself.