#understood

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

#departure #described #hollywood #i #understood

The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting. ↗

— John Cleese

#another #back #better #else #good

Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was slightly different from either Latin or Greek. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#different #either #french #french language #great

But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication. ↗

— Tony Conrad

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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#appreciated #battle #described #easily #great

If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood. ↗

— Katharine Graham

#quite #rich #woman

It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood. ↗

— Terry Gross

#being misunderstood #fear #just #misunderstood #sometimes

Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#better #economy #having #i #liked

Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation. ↗