Understanded Quotes & Sayings

The liquid drops of tears that you have shed
Shall come again, transform'd to orient pearl,
Advantaging their loan with interest
Of ten times double gain of happiness. — William Shakespeare

I'm British - ostensibly British - but I don't know where I really belong, you know? — Robert Plant

If I was as relaxed as what I perceived myself to be, I would not be able to multi-task the way I multi-task. — Miranda Kerr

She understood now. You got married in spite of your wedding not because of it. — Mark Haddon

The pre-shoot days are so relaxed and fun and the writers are laughing. I love the rehearsal process. — Allison Janney

Jefferson's love of control was evident when he was at home. He was precise and demanding about his horses. When he was younger and his mount was brought to him, he would use a white cambric handkerchief to brush the horse's shoulders.63 If there were dust, the horse was returned to the stables. Only the perfect would suffice. His horses were sources of immense pleasure, but he also disliked animals with wills of their own, and his mask of equanimity could slip occasionally when it came to his horses. "The only impatience of temper he ever exhibited was with his horse, which he subdued to his will by a fearless application of the whip on the slightest manifestation of restiveness," said a grandson.64 — Jon Meacham

So long as we are adopted by God in Christ, we are destined for slaughter. If — John Calvin

Often our thoughts, choices and actions are not aligned to reach our desired goals and we prefer to call it destiny. — Anupama Garg

It was not until very much in the posterior that I understanded that each of us was laughing for a different reason, for our own reason, and that not on of those reasons had a thing to do with the potato. — Jonathan Safran Foer

The Difference Between Art and Life is that Art is More Bearable — Charles Bukowski

When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best. — Randy Bachman

Going to another country doesn't make any difference. I've tried all that. You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There's nothing to that. — Ernest Hemingway,

It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entrust oneself to someone who knows not that he knows not. Has a man ever learnt swimming by tying a stone to his neck? So let me go my own way even if it is the wrong one. — Sudhir Kakar

Ultimately you're trying to reach across and find some other person, some other human warmth. But it is, especially in written poetry, it is inscribed in a text and the text can't do that work by itself and you as a poet can only do your best. — Edward Hirsch