I Didn't Understand Quotes

#1. As a kid, I saw that Dad lost a lot of money in casinos, and I didn't understand that. I thought this must be a great business. At the same time, I saw when I was with him - and I was with him a lot of the time - that this was a really cool business, and it was fun and glamorous.

James Packer

#2. Okeydokey." "I think I liked you better when I didn't understand you.

Wendy Mass

#3. When I first began doing TV pilots, my expectations were high. I didn't understand that world. So when 'Weeds' took off, I was so happy. Especially as I was just a guest star in the pilot. But once it got picked up, they made me a regular cast member.

Kevin Nealon

#4. Flannery O'Connor was a revelation for me. When I read her, I was very young, and I didn't understand what she was doing. I didn't see any of the Catholicism or any of the social stuff.

Karin Slaughter

#5. That's something I didn't understand until recently: you don't get that degree; it gets you.

Gene Wolfe

#6. Some scientist needs to explain to spectators Einstein's relativity theory. Before his explanation, he says: 'I have to suffer a lot explaining something I don't understand myself.' This relates to my game: I didn't understand anything!

Vassily Ivanchuk

#7. He was funny and focused and fierce. I mean the guy could be fierce. And there wasn't anything mean about him. I didn't understand how you could live in a mean world and not have any of that meanness rub off on you.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#8. To play music, you have to understand it. I didn't understand 'Topographic Oceans.' That's why I hardly played on it. It frustrated me no end - and playing the whole thing on tour, I got farther and farther away from it.

Rick Wakeman

#9. Literature has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I can't think back before a time that I didn't love writing and reading. When I was really young, my mother would read poems to me. I loved Edgar Allan Poe - I am sure I didn't understand it, but I loved it.

Alexandra Adornetto

#10. I didn't understand love, so I certainly didn't love myself enough; I'd only functioned in survival. Survival was easy because when you fight to survive the only person you have to consider is yourself.

Love Belvin

#11. I wrote about World War II because I didn't understand it. I think that's the reason that historians are drawn to any subject - there's something about it that doesn't make sense. I wanted to work my way through what happened slowly, and look at everything in the order in which it took place.

Nicholson Baker

#12. I went to America on holiday when I was 17 and, before I knew it, I'd been signed up by an agency and had these obligations I didn't understand, but which I couldn't say no to. This industry chose me. But I did choose to make it fulfilling.

Elle Macpherson

#13. My mom's best friend growing up was diagnosed with AIDS, and he basically raised me when my mom was launching her business. Although I didn't understand at the time what HIV or AIDS was, I knew that's what he passed away from.

Solange Knowles

#14. There are different people who got me into music, but what I liked about Beethoven is that even when I didn't understand it or it was too long, there's still something about it that drove me to it. Then it got me excited about actually learning music, like a theory of it.

Albert Hammond Jr.

#15. Alex had made him bleed when he clocked him one. "I said I was sorry about that. I didn't understand the situation," Alex said apologetically, staring down at

Jessica Sorensen

#16. But the distinction is important and must be made: the highest virtue is not to give or to take. It is to share. And what I didn't understand most of my life is that sharing includes serving oneself. It is a subtle distinction, one too subtle for most adults, though most children understand it.

Robert Peate

#17. One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.

Vanilla Ice

#18. I can't add. I don't understand basic science. Or anything else. But I can read anything. I've always been able to, and I've always liked to. Even if I didn't understand it, I liked to.

Zadie Smith

#19. She said I was the most sensitive boy she'd ever met, which
I didn't understand because really all I did was not interrupt her.

Stephen Chbosky

#20. I felt like I didn't understand a single thing in the whole world. I didn't understand a single person. I didn't even understand myself.

Cynthia Kadohata

#21. Without siblings you get quite a skewed vision of yourself and of the world. I always felt I didn't understand how it worked. I remember feeling quite lonely.

Kate Atkinson

#22. I didn't tell him that what I was most scared of, most haunted by, was something I didn't understand and could never run away from. It was myself.

Francesca Lia Block

#23. I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.

David Antin

#24. My favorite symbols were those which I didn't understand.

Adolph Gottlieb

#25. Nothing. I was confused for two years. I didn't understand anything and I'm still confused.

Gregg Popovich

#26. Who are you?' I didn't understand the question. I'm Uri', he said. 'What's your name?' I gave him my name. 'Stopthief.

Jerry Spinelli

#27. I didn't understand the Kindle's true value until I finished an e-book on the beach. In sixty seconds - and without benefit of pants - I had brand-new reading material at my fingertips.

Jen Lancaster

#28. Alex got angry at me because he said I didn't understand how hard it was. And you know what? He was right. I didn't understand. Not then.

Andrew Klavan

#29. You do not understand
no accomplishment overcomes the stigma of being different. [ ... ] I try not to think about it and cannot eat my supper or nothing. I didn't understand it at first. But now I do. You are not different in the way difference is acceptable but in another, bigger way.

David Adams Richards

#30. The word "prodigy" was thrown around a lot, but I didn't understand what that meant, or the weight of it. It didn't really mean anything to me, until I was older and could look back on it.

Misty Copeland

#31. I didn't understand that I could sing until I was like 11 or 12. My mom heard me singing around the house and she said, What are you doing? You really can sing! So then I started going to school and singing to the girls.

Chris Brown

#32. I didn't have a job because nobody would hire me. My friends were getting hired, and I couldn't even get a job interview. That really rocked my self-esteem because I didn't understand what I did wrong on those job applications.

Tyra Banks

#33. When I gave signs of protest she nearly reminded me of the money she was giving me. She stopped in time, but not so that I didn't understand: it was like when someone is about to hit you and then doesn't.

Elena Ferrante

#34. I didn't understand that playing roles in any relationship is false and will inevitably lead to the relationship's collapse. No one can be any one thing all the time.

Portia De Rossi

#35. Church reminded me very much of going to shul. It was a bunch of men wearing long robes, speaking in a language I didn't understand.

Amy-Jill Levine

#36. When I first started working it was as if I didn't understand myself. The fact that I didn't understand myself was tied up with not understanding where I came from, where I began.

Rirkrit Tiravanija

#37. I was about to sit down when Kyle's hand wrapped around my left wrist lightly and pulled up my arm. The suddenness of his touch was startling. I looked at him, confused, and saw fire in his eyes - raw anger I didn't understand. His eyes looked up at me and penetrated mine.

Christie Cote

#38. Now and adult, allowed a glimpse of these first cracks in my family's perfect surface, I couldn't help but wonder what else I didn't understand about us all.
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Melanie Benjamin

#39. When I was young there were some things I didn't understand.
I never understood how Superman could love Lois Lane ...

Jaree Francis

#40. When I was younger, I didn't understand how a mother could put her son on a plane and just say, you know, 'Here you go, I'll see you later.' And she never followed, she never came.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#41. I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could.

Marjane Satrapi

#42. I'd been the perfect example of ignorance. I didn't know what made them love each other because I didn't understand love.

C.D. Reiss

#43. That was because when I was little I didn't understand about other people having minds.

Mark Haddon

#44. I wasn't quite used to writing a diary - I didn't understand why people did it - but I wrote down notes and they went into a poem.

Benjamin Clementine

#45. When I arrived, I didn't understand London customers perfectly, but we've developed the right style with the right price, and step by step, I'm in harmony with London.

Alain Ducasse

#46. I used to really panic about finals. I didn't understand the concept of how you could have one test that encompasses the entire semester.

Tyra Banks

#47. I always loved working as an actress, but I didn't understand why I couldn't just opt out of being famous. And then I realized you can, and I think I did. And eventually, I came to understand that you can do that and also keep working.

Debra Winger

#48. I didn't understand, either, but love had no sense sometimes. Pondering the why of it was futile.

Jeaniene Frost

#49. I liked things better when I didn't understand them.

Bill Watterson

#50. I didn't understand the purpose of the seeds, but it was comforting to know that in a dire emergency I could hit people with my ukulele while Meg planted geraniums.

Rick Riordan

#51. I didn't understand how to get a practice space or buy gear - I never thought I could do any of that - let alone get in front of people and play the songs.

Kevin Morby

#52. I can never remember things I didn't understand in the first place.

Amy Tan

#53. I've seen the odd tarot reader and had my palm read in various countries and explained to me in many strains of broken English. Did I believe a word? To be honest, I didn't understand much, but I loved watching the presentation.

Simon Baker

#54. I didn't understand in the beginning that the editor didn't want me to know the author. I'd make an effort to meet the author, but it would end up being a disaster because then I had the author telling me what I should be doing.

Peter Sis

#55. I didn't understand the advantages of staying active until I was about 27.

Olivier Theyskens

#56. A man said to Maharajji, "You've promised for years to visit my home and you have never come. I'm not going to come to see you anymore, because you won't visit my home." Maharajji said, "Oh, I didn't understand! It's your home. I had thought it was my home and so I didn't need to visit.

Ram Dass

#57. I didn't understand what was supposed to happen from our swinging, but the need to make her happy bloomed in my chest.

Kenya Wright

#58. I started out young and idealistic, and it was all about social justice and fair distribution of resources. I didn't understand why everybody couldn't be equally prosperous.

John Mackey

#59. I would just go in my room and just scream out of anger because I didn't understand how a person could be so vicious and mean.

Michael Jackson

#60. They assumed I didn't understand the conversation, and it was much easier to let them think that. My mother said I was at an awkward age. I didn't feel especially awkward, so I presumed she meant it was awkward for them.

Joanna Cannon

#61. When you give feedback, make sure to be specific. I didn't understand you when you explained the chart or walked me through the steps of...

Assegid Habtewold

#62. I picked up her icy hand and carefully held it in my own. I didn't understand my need to touch her, to have a physical connection with her.

Melissa A. Hanson

#63. I didn't understand that when you make love, you actually do MAKE love. Stir things. Affect each other. The breath that escapes from me is dazzled. He breathes it in with a gasp.

Jenny Downham

#64. So confusing. It was some kind of magic, I knew that for sure, but I didn't understand the subtleties of it all. You'd have thought all those years of HBO and shit would have prepared me better.

Red Tash

#65. I hated school. I travelled so much in my early years that I didn't understand the process. I felt suffocated - not like I was some grandiose artist; I just felt like an alien.

Dakota Johnson

#66. I didn't understand most of what he was saying. I should have had to understand what he was saying. I was still so young. And I certainly should not have had to learn it this way!

Elizabeth Smart

#67. I know nothing about her. Just some books, and some stories she tried to tell me, and things I didn't understand, and I remember big red soft hands and that smell. I never knew who she really was. I mean, she must have been nine too, once.

Terry Pratchett

#68. I was only in one of the John Hughes films, and I never saw the other ones. I didn't understand them. I kept hearing a really hip 40-year-old person talking in teenagers' mouths.

John Cusack

#69. I didn't understand yet that the beauty was part of the boredom.

Zadie Smith

#70. I remember when Martin Luther King was assassinated. I was up early watching television and watched the announcement. I didn't understand what the word 'assassinated' meant.

Henry Rollins

#71. I used to love reading when I was little, and then it became difficult and I didn't understand why. I thought, what a bummer, my passion all drained out of me. So when I found out I had dyslexia, it was like, oh, that's what it was.

Jewel

#72. I was definitely out of control, but I loved the game of basketball and I played to win and I didn't understand anything less than that. That's why I have a hard time with the young men who can't play because they went to the dentist this afternoon.

Mel Daniels

#73. When my wife got sick, I didn't understand why God was doing what he was doing.

Marvin Sapp

#74. I never called a balk in my life. I didn't understand the rule.

Ron Luciano

#75. I had no words to give him. No explanation. I didn't understand it, myself. It scared me, but then so do roller coasters, and I ride them anyway, too.

Megan Hart

#76. I didn't understand why I needed help, because it seemed to me that you should wear heavy boots when your dad dies, and if you aren't wearing heavy boots, then you need help.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#77. It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.

Francia Raisa

#78. I didn't understand the American fascination with the Japanese schoolgirl. No, I don't think I can, really.

Chiaki Kuriyama

#79. I enjoyed learning the poems, but I didn't understand of what use they might possibly be. 'They'll keep you company on the day you have no books to read,' my teacher said.

Alberto Manguel

#80. I was so confused. I didn't understand how we could be so perfect, but then so wrong.

Porscha Sterling

#81. The relentlessness with which these women tried to repair their relationships was foreign to me; I didn't understand why they didn't simply give up.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#82. I wanted to tell you everything. And that hurt because some things were too scary. Some things even I didn't understand. How could I tell someone - someone I was really talking to for the first time - everything I was thinking? I couldn't. It was too soon.

Jay Asher

#83. It wasn't that I didn't understand Jeremy getting a new band while I was missing/dead/etc. I was sure I would have done the same thing in his position. Well, I would have started one, not joined one, because I don't really like team sports unless I've invented both the team and the sport.

Maggie Stiefvater

#84. I visualized a lot of things happening to me, because I was a lonely kid because I didn't understand anything about school.

Anthony Hopkins

#85. I used to think about giving my life up for things, but I didn't understand what 'giving your life' really was until it was right there, about to be taken from me

Veronica Roth

#86. I'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn't understand what was going on with every single ingredient, I could be qualifying for, like, the lunch food job at my daughter's school.

Alton Brown

#87. For reasons I didn't understand, I felt I needed to learn how to cook the food of France and knew that I was going to have to get over to the country: to Paris, I'd always assumed.

Bill Buford

#88. I loved 'Saturday Night Fever' when I was a kid. I couldn't believe people talked that way. It was just a whole new culture I didn't understand. I snuck into it. It was an R-rated film. So it holds a special place.

Brad Pitt

#89. A friend gave me a CD of the 'Pathetique' Symphony as a Christmas present. I went home, and I put on the CD expecting to listen to Tchaikovsky. But it started 'ta ta ta taaa.' It was too long for me. I didn't understand it at first, but then I fell in love, in love, in love.

Gustavo Dudamel

#90. America: this strange, huge place where I now found myself living that I knew I didn't understand. But I wanted to understand it. More than that, I wanted to describe it. And

Neil Gaiman

#91. If I thought I could never love you more, I didn't understand you well enough.

Julie Berry

#92. I didn't give myself enough breaks during the training year to recover. I didn't understand the power of periodization.

Alberto Salazar

#93. I don't know who explained this rule to me; maybe it was the product of my own speculations and fantasies. That would have been typical: I was always inventing stories and machinations to make sense of things I didn't understand, and I understood almost nothing.

Cesar Aira

#94. The Opera reminds me of my tax audit. It was in a language I didn't understand. And it ended in tragedy.

Jeff MacNelly

#95. Until I went to rehab, I didn't understand what it did.

Aaron Neville

#96. I didn't understand at all that the memories accumulated during years of happiness could weigh enough to balance so large a loss, or that the mind will sometimes find a way to free the heart from pain.

Eric Kraft

#97. Me being in my grandmother's yard in Brooklyn. I must have been about 3. I had this red balloon. I let go of it, and it went up into the sky and just kept going and going. I completely flipped out, because I didn't understand why.

Lenny Kravitz

#98. For years, I believed that God had been in motion on rare occasions and during biblical times, but I didn't understand that God never stops working on my behalf.

Jeff Leake

#99. What I didn't understand, all those years when I was waiting for my life to start, was that it had already started. I was already living it! Those were the most important years, and I didn't even know it.

Lee Smith

#100. I was bullied every day at school because I carried a briefcase. I could have left it at home. But I thought it looked great! I didn't understand why anyone else didn't think so.

Tom Ford