Top 100 Can't Understand Quotes
#1. The girl talks to me but I can't understand her anymore. Naturally, I say yes in my most sincere tone of voice. But I am not with it. Everything annoys me, I hesitate, I don't feel hungry.
Albert Camus
#2. The censors don't bother with fantasy books, especially old ones. They can't understand them. They think it's all kids' stuff. They'd die if they knew what The Chronicles of Narnia were really about.
G. Willow Wilson
#3. People say, 'You have inspired me, you've given me courage ... ' They've gone so far as to say, 'You've changed my life!' And I would come back and say to my husband, 'I can't understand it - what kind of poor little life did she have if I had to come and change it?'
Iris Apfel
#4. I was a philosophy major as an undergraduate, and I'm just an arrogant little thing. It's hard for me to admit that I can't understand something, let alone not be in charge of it.
Mary Karr
#5. There's always a place for the angry young man with his fist in the air and his head in the sand. He's never been able to learn from mistakes, he can't understand why his heart always breaks.
Billy Joel
#6. New Hampshire polling data are unreliable because, when you call the Granite State's registered Republicans and independents in the middle of dinner and ask them who they're going to vote for, they have a mouth full of mashed potatoes and you can't understand what they say.
P. J. O'Rourke
#8. I knew you were in love with him." Winter tapped her fingers against her elbow. "I can't understand why no one ever listens to me." Scarlet glared, but there was no ire behind it. "You're right, Winter. It's a complete mystery.
Marissa Meyer
#9. I don't dare to think my paintings are great. I can't understand the arrogance of someone saying, 'I have created a big, important work.'
Gerhard Richter
#10. There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#11. Madness is like intelligence, you know. You can't explain it. Just like intelligence. It comes on you, it fills you, and then you understand it. But when it goes away you can't understand it at all any longer.
Marguerite Duras
#12. I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism.
Hans Hofmann
#13. You can't understand a God who's all mercy and no justice. That cute, fuzzy God wouldn't last two minutes in the Warrens, would he?
Brent Weeks
#14. The world is more random than we can imagine. That's what our emotions can't understand.
Jonah Lehrer
#15. I can understand other people's situations in their own terms, but I still can't understand mine.
Edie Sedgwick
#16. I can't understand it when people say they don't like a particular color ... How on earth can you not like a color?
Dale Chihuly
#17. Only truths that matter to me are the ones I don't, and can't, understand.
Donna Tartt
#18. The next level, by definition, is something you can't see and you can't understand ...
Eben Pagan
#19. [My subjects] look lost because that is how I see life. I think we are all a bit lost, lost in a world we can't understand.
Loretta Lux
#20. You're like me. We're not really like the others. [ ... ] We're really better in our own company, Persephone said. It makes it hard sometimes, for others, when they can't understand us.
Maggie Stiefvater
#21. No. You can't understand. Because you're reading the last chapter of something without having read the first chapter. You're a little guy, Bode. Kids always think they're coming into a story at the beginning, when they're usually coming in at the end.
Joe Hill
#22. It was a senseless, evil thing to do. Still, evil like that is everywhere in this world, mountains of it. I can't understand it, you can't understand it. But it's there, no question. You could say we're surrounded by it.
Haruki Murakami
#23. - fear comes only when you don't have faith in the outcome. And boredom comes only when you believe there's nothing new worth learning. I simply can't understand how any of that will occur today.
Trish Mercer
#24. Astrology had an important role in the ancient world. You can't understand many things unless you know something about astrology - the plays of Shakespeare and so on.
Steven Pinker
#25. Progress is something with no pity, and no purpose. It just happens. It chews up all you ever knew, and spits out things you can't understand, and the only value it seems to have is to make a few people a lot of money.
Spider Robinson
#26. What is really important you can't understand with your mind.
Adyashanti
#27. The Weaver is a really godlike power. It's not even a blind idiot god, a sort of Lovecraft thing, it's just a purely capricious god. It's an intelligence you can't understand, so you can't trust it."
China Mieville
#28. Easter tells us of something children can't understand, because it addresses things they don't yet have to know: the weariness of life, the pain, the profound loneliness and hovering fear of meaninglessness.
Frederica Mathewes-Green
#29. I think MTV should consider using subtitles. Half the time, even I can't understand what the fu*k I'm talking about.
Ozzy Osbourne
#30. Getting one bill passed is close to impossible. Ask any kid who has spent a summer in Washington, or better yet a semester, and can't understand how people tolerate its menu of constant frustration. Imagine mastering it.
Susan Estrich
#31. Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning.
George D. Prentice
#32. I can't understand guys who just have to have your autograph. What do you do when you get home, take it out & look at it?
Artie Shaw
#33. You are fascinated with yourself. You will say anything that occurs to you, but what I can't understand are the things that do occur to you. I should like to take your head apart, put a fact in it, and watch it go its way through the runnels of your brain until it comes out of your mouth.
Harper Lee
#34. You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions.
Richard Dawkins
#35. I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
Kathleen Hale
#36. You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.
George Lakoff
#37. This is exactly why I can't understand the path of vengeance. No matter how much someone has hurt me, I still find no pleasure in seeing them hurt.
Bella Forrest
#38. Interviewer: Some people say they can't understand your writing, even after they read it two or three times. What approach would you suggest for them?
Faulkner: Read it four times.
William Faulkner
#39. Ain't nothing more important than loving your mama. Even if you can't understand her. Love her. That's all you gotta do.
Julie Cantrell
#40. The guy who isn't in the know can't understand ... how hard it is to be in the know and still not say.
CLAMP
#41. I'm not good with hospitals. The endless buildings, trees dotted around like apologies, and inside, it's job functions you can't understand and that air of incomprehensible busyness. Curtained-off beds and death settling like falling snow.
Harry Bingham
#42. The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.
Natalie Jeremijenko
#43. There's a lot of American people who like K-Pop for some reason. I don't know why, you know? But they like it even if they can't understand it because it has that style, that appeal.
Tablo
#44. And real talk, like, seeing these ants and studying them and respecting them, it's like, man, they're in their own community too. They're trying to survive. They love. They fight. They telling themselves something. We can't understand, but one day we will.
Brandon McCartney
#45. Haters are sometimes people who can't understand why everybody loves you.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#46. The healthy can't understand the emptied, the broken.
David Mitchell
#47. colour red, so why can't you see why I can't understand emotions. They're not suddenly
Joy Hindle
#48. I'm always amazed to hear of air crash victims so badly mutilated that they have to be identified by their dental records. What I can't understand is, if they don't know who you are, how do they know who your dentist is?
Paul Merton
#49. I can't understand what's holding up our missile program. It's the first time the government ever had trouble making the taxpayers' money go up in smoke.
Bob Hope
#50. The travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It's a passion. And I can't understand people who don't want to travel.
Paul Theroux
#51. I actually like how doctors talk. I like the sound of science. I like how words you don't understand explain things you can't understand.
R.J. Palacio
#52. How can [actors] learn their lines and be honest in front of 30 people and all the lights? It makes me cry sometimes. I can't understand how they can be joking with me 30 seconds before, and 40 seconds later they're giving me all this incredible feeling.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#53. Baby you're the only light I ever saw. I make the most of all the sadness, you be a bitch because you can. You try to hit me just to hurt me so you leave me feeling dirty 'cause you can't understand. We're going down and you could see it to ... we're slow dancing in a burning room!!!
John Mayer
#54. You can't understand my work if you lack the moral deficiency to kill indiscriminately.
Martyn V. Halm
#55. One night, Tess finds me sobbing during the health segment of the evening news. Scientists have discovered scarred cells from cardiac arrest fall away over time, and she can't understand how sadly hopeful that is. To me, it means that the human heart has the capacity to heal itself.
Koren Zailckas
#56. Poor people can't understand this: It's not what you do that creates a fortune, but who you are.
Robin Sacredfire
#57. The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.
Daniel Barenboim
#58. I don't get it. Basketball is so supremely boring. I can't understand the point of watching ten giants running from one end of the field
court
to the other throwing an orange ball through a hoop in the air. I guess it's better than golf, but so is watching paint dry.
Carter Quinn
#59. I thought that helping someone meant sharing everything, even the things you can't understand, even the darkest stuff.
Delphine De Vigan
#60. The way those clubs shift against Ted Williams, I can't understand how he can be so stupid not to accept the challenge to him and hit to left field.
Ty Cobb
#61. I still can't understand why anyone cares about what I do or what I say.
Eva Longoria
#62. It's freaking football. There are going to be big hits. I don't understand how they can do this after one weekend of hitting. And I can't understand how they can suspend us for it. I think it's a bunch of bull.
Brian Urlacher
#63. You can't understand the words of Cocteau Twins songs, but their harmonies put you in a dreamlike state.
Prince
#64. I mean, I don't like sitting at a table with seven or eight people asking me questions and kind of listening to what I'm doing - scrutinizing my thoughts and things like that. I just don't like it. I can't understand how anyone would.
Joaquin Phoenix
#65. If we don't understand bad writing, we can't understand good writing. Bad writing is characterized by obfuscation, showboating, narcissism, lack of a moral core, and style over substance. Good writing is exactly the opposite. Bad writing draws attention to the writer himself.
Anis Shivani
#66. I can't understand why a person will take a year or two to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
Fred Allen
#67. I love going somewhere like Japan where you can't understand a word of the advertising - you just see it for its aesthetic beauty, without feeling that you're being sold something.
Stanley Donwood
#68. We can't understand the nature of reality until we let go of controlling our experience.
Tara Brach
#69. I understand cricket - what's going on, the scoring - but I can't understand why.
Bill Bryson
#70. I have just discovered the truth, and can't understand why everybody isn't eager to hear it.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#71. Brazil goes into every World Cup expecting to win - so when it is in Brazil it is expected even more. You can't understand what the World Cup means to our country.
Ronaldinho
#72. You can't understand samsara, the cycle of birth and death. But try to understand what you can, for it's the essence of Vedic philosophy. Karma determines birth. It is not an accident. It's the fruit of your karma.
D.V. Murthy
#73. Someone had to be blamed. Someone had to die. ( ... ) What you can't understand, you destroy.
Melina Marchetta
#74. If Putin wants to knock the hell out of ISIS, I'm all for it 100 percent and I can't understand how anybody would be against that.
Donald Trump
#75. I'll tell you that whatever you feel for anyone, however much love's inside you, there's more of it when you have a child. You can't understand it until you've experienced it. And it doesn't change as they grow into men, into women. It just grows with them. It should be me in there, and not my boy.
J.D. Robb
#76. There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring against Wall Street, because juries can't understand the complexity of the financial schemes involved. But in 'U.S.A. v. Carollo,' that turned out not to be true.
Matt Taibbi
#77. I can't understand why Scholes has never won the player of the year award. He should have won it long ago. Maybe it's because he doesn't seek the limelight like some of the other 'stars'.
Thierry Henry
#78. Niggas hate what they can't understand, fear what they can't conquer
Nas
#79. I've always had a passion for tearing the bandages from other people's eyes. I've always insisted that those round me should see things as they are. I suppose it is that I need companionship in despair. I can't understand not despairing.
Francois Mauriac
#80. Well." Vivien smiled, swinging her legs. "At least when Iain starts yelling, his accent gets thicker, so you usually can't understand a word he's ... No, don't pull that one," she stopped me suddenly. "That one I do recognize. It's some sort of a daisy, or something.
Susanna Kearsley
#81. Let me do five of those, and then some slower ones for those kids that can't understand what I'm sayin.
Big Pun
#82. [ ... ] everything has a narrative, really, and if you can't understand a story and relate to it, figure out how you fit inside it, you're not really alive at all.
Catherynne M Valente
#83. I know this is weird ... I am a Black woman and I am not mixed with any Asian blood or Chinese blood at all, but for some reason, as a child, the movie, The Last Emperor, had a serious affect on me. I can't understand why. But there's something that the movie did to me.
Tyra Banks
#85. Many Americans have no idea of what has been the foreign policy of their country. If you don't know about something, you can't understand what is going on.
Mick Jagger
#86. People fear what they can't understand and harm what they fear.
Heather Brewer
#87. You lie, just by the look of your face the muscles which you move I can understand this. But I can't understand why do you do that?
Deyth Banger
#88. It's very hard for me to know what to say about fusion right now, inasmuch as it is not yet scientifically feasible. I just can't understand how so many people are able to predict so much about something that still isn't scientifically possible.
David R. Brower
#89. I've discovered that half the people would love to go into space and there's no need to explain it to them. The other half can't understand and I couldn't explain it to them. If someone doesn't know why, I can't explain it.
Sally Ride
#90. When your practice has led you to experiences that you can't understand, you need a better theory. Otherwise, if you try to understand these transcendent experiences with 'profane' or, we might say, 'materialistic' ways of thinking, your cultivation will be set back.
Betty Sue Flowers
#91. What I can't understand is why the silly things you say makes so much sense."
"I'll tell you why," said Papa Dima. "It's because the best idea is the idea you least expect. And the unexpected always seems silly at first.
Eduard Uspensky
#92. I can't understand why people so readily put themselves up to be humiliated.
Penelope Wilton
#93. You can't understand depth of science, unless you challenge the published scientific data.
Amit Ray
#94. Feel like the recluse who comes out into the world with a life-saving gospel to find everybody has learned a new language in the meantime and can't understand a word he's saying.
Sylvia Plath
#95. What if our children are all super-bright and I can't understand what they're saying and they look down on me because I haven't got a PhD?
Sophie Kinsella
#96. I can't understand how she could have wanted to live back here, away from everything," said Jane. "Oh, I can easily understand that," said Anne thoughtfully. "I wouldn't want it myself for a steady thing because, although I love the fields and woods, I love people too ...
L.M. Montgomery
#97. I am glad to see that you have enough imagination not to be altogether a fool ... Yes, it is want of imagination that makes people fools; they won't believe what they can't understand.
H. Rider Haggard
#98. Nothing hurts a good soul and kind heart more than to live amongst people who can't understand it.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#99. I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it.
George Burns
#100. If you can't understand the spec for a new technology, don't worry: nobody else will understand it either, and the technology won't be that important.
Joel Spolsky
