Quotes About Understanding

I was an estructuralist at the age of seven, which is about the right age for it.

Grownups know things," said Piggy. "They ain't afraid of the dark. They'd meet and have tea and discuss. Then things 'ud be all right—

The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.

He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.

Nem nagyon segítenek az emberek! Azt akarta mondani, hogy az emberek sohasem pontosan olyanok, mint amilyennek elképzeljük Å'ket.

With lack of sleep and too much understanding I grow a little crazy, I think, like all men at sea who live too close to each other and too close thereby to all that is monstrous under the sun and moon.

Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! said the head. For a moment or two the forest and all the other dimly appreciated places echoed with the parody of laughter. You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, close, close! I'm the reason whi it's no go? Why things are what they are?

Bir hayvan olmad???n? biliyorum; yani öyle pençeleri filan olan bir hayvan demek istiyorum. Korkunun olmad???n? da biliyorum... ... Ancak insanlardan korkmad???m?z sürece.

aç?klamak istiyordu; hiç kimsenin tam san?ld??? gibi olmad???n? anlatmak istiyordu.

What's in a book is not what the author put into it, it's what the reader gets out of it.

Söyleyecek baÅŸka ÅŸeyleri yoktu, ama ikisi de hiçbir ÅŸeyin çözüme kavuÅŸmad???n? biliyordu.

Suddenly, pacing by the water, he was overcome with astonishment. He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.

And what have I done? What? WHAT?...You've stolen them. With that, Cornelia fled, but Buttercup understood; she knew who them was. The boys. The beef-witted featherbrained rattledskulled clodpated dim-domed noodle-noggined sapheaded lunk-knobbed BOYS.

I don't guess. I think. I ponder. I deduce. Then I decide. But I never guess.

But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid - that had to mean something.

Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches! If your love were- I don't understand that first one yet, Buttercup interrupted. She was starting to get very excited now. Let me get this straight. Are you saying my love is a grain of sand and yours is this other thing? Images confuse me so - is this universal business of yours bigger than my sand? Help me, Westley. I have the feeling we're on the verge of something just terribly important.

Get used to disappointment.

I understand everything," he said. "You understand nothing, but it really doesn't matter, since what you mean is, you're glad to see me, just as I'm glad to see you because no more loneliness." "That's what I mean," said Fezzik.

How can you even dream I might be teasing? Well, you haven't once said you loved me. That's all you need? Easy. I love you. Okay? Want it louder? I love you. Spell it out, should I? I ell-oh-vee-ee why-oh-you. Want it backward? You love I. You are teasing me now; aren't you? A little maybe

I understand completely what you are trying to do, the Sicilian said finally, and I want it quite clear that I resent your behavior. You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly.

Well, you haven't once said you loved me.' 'That's all you need? Easy. I love you. Okay? Want it louder? I love you. Spell it out, should I? I ell-oh-vee-ee why-oh-you. Want it backward? You love I.

The main thing was to know the world, every twenty-five years or so, back for a couple hundred years, and if you had that info handy, always there under your belt, then you could figure out the gaps.

Fezzik reached the top of the wall and started carefully climbing down the other side. I understand everything, he said. You understand nothing, but it really doesn't matter, since what you mean is, you're glad to see me, just as I'm glad to see you because no more loneliness. That's what I mean, said Fezzik.

That explains it." Actually, of course, it didn't explain anything, but whenever doctors are confused about something, which is really more frequently than any of us would do well to think about, they always snatch at something in the vicinity of the case and add, "That explains it.