Nero may have understood how to tune his cithern, but he disgraced his imperial office both by slackening and by tightening the strings.

- Apollonius of Tyana

I make movies in order to make things understood, not to be shocking.

- Bernardo Bertolucci

I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them.

- Brigitte Bardot

People never understood that there was Brian and The Boz. They were two completely different people.

- Brian Bosworth

I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.

- Bjork

I've never quite understood that feeling: that you arrive in a strange place, yet you want to have nothing but familiar experiences.

- Bill Bryson

My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.

- Benoit Mandelbrot

The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.

- Ben Affleck

The more clearly you write, the more easily and surely you will be understood.

- Arthur Quiller-Couch

I don't believe for a minute that women really want to be understood by men.

- Allison Pearson

If we all understood we can learn from both older and younger people, then we'd have a better world.

- Adora Svitak

What I've understood is that to be funny is not my job. To see funny is my job.

- Anna D. Shapiro

Fortunately, the courts discharged me every time after they understood what I had done.

- Alain Robert

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.

- Albert J. Nock

What is divine? Simply that which man has not yet been able to understand. Once understood, it ceases to be divine.

- Ashwin Sanghi

TIVO was a big shift in how people watched TV, but everyone understood the concept of TV. No one really understands the concept of, well why would I want my genetic information?

- Anne Wojcicki

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

- Andy Warhol

Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.

- Alfred North Whitehead

When I brought 'El Topo' to New York, no one understood the picture. But John Lennon understood. John and Yoko Ono, they presented 'El Topo' in the United States; they introduced it.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

- Alanis Morissette