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)