Understand

Famous quotes containing the word understand:

“The camera has an interest in turning history into spectacle, but none in reversing the process. At best, the picture leaves a vague blur in the observer’s mind; strong enough to send him into battle perhaps, but not to have him understand why he is going.”
—Denis Donoghue (b. 1928)

“I never can understand how anyone can not smoke—it deprives a man of the best part of life ... with a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him—literally.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)

“You are intricate tune;
endangering spark;
I don’t understand the ways of you,
nor why
your eyes should be dark.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)