Quotes About Understanding

Neither of my parents would ever stand in the way of any of their children speaking their minds.

In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.

Your work isn't just to learn and say the lines. Your work is to figure out what the chatter in your brain is, that's going on under the lines. It doesn't matter whether you're speaking or not speaking because your mind is working the way your character's mind would work.

Chemically speaking or biologically, we research things, but we don't know half of them. We only know our half of it - symbolically - and we don't know ourselves more than half.

I've said before that I am not a historian and that when it comes to speaking of the dimensions of the Holocaust, it is the historians that should reflect on it.

Speaking for the nation as a whole entails understanding and feeling the pain, as well as understanding the aspiration of the different cultural, social and political make-up of the nation.

There comes a place where you need to respect. When people are speaking, you don't comment.

Sometimes listening is of greater value than speaking.

Sometimes you don't have to say anything. Silence speaks it all.

When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

It's good to have someone who speaks your language in everyday life, especially for me, who does not speak English so well.

The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does.

Both my parents are very emotional. My mom is not expressive, my father is more, and he speaks out more.

My mother-in-law speaks not a word of English. I speak not a word of Tajiki. So I smile at her ingratiatingly and she fixes me with a beady eye.

The trouble with ghostwriting is that it raises the issue of whether the president is in a state of diminished responsibility for what he says. Does he actually grasp the implications of the words he speaks?

You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.

Anything by Lorrie Moore speaks to a certain kind of person.

There are lots of actors who insist on speaking the lines themselves, and you hear the same thing from directors and the audience, but I don't think it's worth getting het up about. I think it makes more sense to use someone who speaks that country's language: that's what voice actors are for.

I guess we're all kinda searching for a connection with something that's relevant to our past and speaks to who we are, and maybe helps us make a connection to what we are, and where we come from.

Something like a 'Maheshinte Prathikaram' will work anywhere in the world because it speaks of something that is beyond language.

Like, I just feel like the way a man speaks to a woman - the way that people speak to each other - it's a respect thing.

It's good to have someone who speaks your own language just to get your mind off of basketball.

You can't tell an 18-year-old to keep it down and turn off Britney Spears or whatever it is that they listen to.