#understood

Hubbard set up the Church of Scientology in Hollywood in 1954 for a reason. He understood that celebrity was increasingly a feature of American public life, and celebrities themselves were going to be worshiped as minor deities were in the ancient world. The idea was: if you could get them, think how many people would follow. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#american public #ancient #celebrities #celebrity #church

No data on air propellers was available, but we had always understood that it was not a difficult matter to secure an efficiency of 50% with marine propellers. ↗

— Orville Wright

#always #available #data #difficult #efficiency

When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you've spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can't help but believe that the majority of people know very little worth knowing. ↗

— Criss Jami

#funny #funny-but-true #genius #geniuses #gift

My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#age #back #community #cook #cooking

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#despair #schizophrenia #understanding #understood #without

I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#bing crosby #crosby #gimmick #him #his

In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian. ↗

— Sugar Ray Leonard

#felt #funny #had #hair #i

We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we're falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing. ↗

— Jude Law

#brain #falling #feel #go #go home

I expected to be shot at any moment and if they had done I would have understood, that they couldn't take risks with someone foolhardy or so unpredictable. ↗

— Laurie Lee

#done #expected #foolhardy #had #i

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#life #new #new way #something #suddenly