Quotes About Understanding

The greatest acting really is spoken without words, or at least I like to think that.

For people to understand, you can't speak 'cinema.' Cinema doesn't have alphabets, so you have to go to the local language. Even in England, if they make a movie in London they have to make it in the Cockney accent, they can't make a film with the English spoken in the BBC. So cinema has to be realistic to the area that it is set in.

Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ.

I don't hate old men but listen when being spoken to.

Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word.

At Somerset I played with Marcus Trescothick who has spoken very openly about his battle with depression and anxiety. I had a few conversations with him about his problems but I also read his book which provided me with a great insight into what he went though.

There are so many things we don't know about because they don't get spoken about, and people might be embarrassed to speak up or might be shamed into not speaking up.

I have spoken to refs after games, just to ask about something that had occurred during a game. It's always been off the record and I've never had a ref not answer.

I've spoken to over 10,000 guys in my career, so I know what they think when it comes to dating.

I'm a first-time father, and it was amazing to me to learn that my son could actually use sign language before the spoken word. I could see this intelligence in his eyes before he could speak: how he could understand what was going on around him and was frustrated by that.

It's true. I'm not a spokesperson. But I can say now that transgendered people like to be heard and to be respected.

To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.

I needed to understand this random bad bit of luck as part of a bigger design. Otherwise I was suffering meaninglessly. This made the suffering a lot worse.

The language that nature speaks is the same language that we invented for mathematics. That's just an amazing piece of luck, which we don't understand.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.

A successful marriage is made up of two good forgivers.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.

The difficulties and hazards of marriage are greatly increased where backgrounds are different

The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much.

My wife and I have a perfect understanding. I don't try to run her life, and I don't try to run mine.

As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.