Top 100 I Don't Understand Quotes
#1. I don't understand why the press is so interested in speculating about my appearance, anyway. What does my face have to do with my music or my dancing?
Michael Jackson
#2. I don't understand why people care so much about showing that they are good; because I am rather comfortable with having badness, quite okay with being inexplicable. They tire themselves so. The light is beautiful; but light can't hide treasures like the darkness can.
C. JoyBell C.
#3. For me it's not possible to forget, and I don't understand people who, when the love is ended, can bury the other person in hatred or oblivion. For me, a man I have loved becomes a kind of brother.
Jeanne Moreau
#4. For the last fifty years we've been supporting right-wing governments, and that is a puzzlement to me ... I don't understand what there is in the American character ... that almost automatically, even when we have a liberal President, we support fascist dictatorships or are tolerant towards them.
Michael Parenti
#5. I couldn't direct because I'm too impatient and I couldn't put together a package because I don't understand money. I'd rather just do what I'm doing.
Rod Serling
#6. Most people outside of America won't get it. It's the Easter bunny. It's another lie and I don't understand why we had to invent this character.
Todd Rundgren
#7. I try to not overthink anything. I don't understand why nipples are nudity. Who cares? Men can show their nipples but if we have breasts we can't show them?
Chelsea Handler
#8. When I see friends of mine break up and they're like, "Oh, we still really love each other, but we just couldn't make it work," I don't get that. I don't understand what that means. Make it work.
Torquil Campbell
#9. There are many times when God's purpose and plan aren't clear. I may never know why some bad things happen, but I trust God does. That allows me to accept the bad as well as the good, even when I don't understand it.
Irene Hannon
#10. Other friends have said, "I don't understand why you've used this trumpet-style sound rather than a real one when you know you can write for trumpet." But it's most important to get the energy right.
Anna Meredith
#11. I turned my air conditioner the other way around and it got cold out. The weatherman said 'I don't understand it. It was supposed to be 80 degrees out today.' I said, oops
Steven Wright
#12. I don't understand people who don't touch their pets. Their cat or dog is called a pet for a reason.
Jarod Kintz
#13. I don't understand why you're so obsessed with figuring out everything that happens here, like we have to unravel every mystery.
John Green
#15. My point is pot is no more and probably less harmful than alcohol is. I don't understand the stigma of not legalizing marijuana. And I don't even smoke it. I don't understand why. I don't get it.
Julie Roginsky
#16. I really just do what I like. I don't understand what the general public likes sometimes.
Rob Zombie
#17. I have an innate incompetence for anything mechanical. It has always seemed to me that a machine can tell from far away that I am afraid of it and that I don't understand anything about it, and breaks down on the spot out of sheer self-preservation.
Heda Margolius Kovaly
#18. I don't understand why some people would even try to categorize you. After watching "Duck Dynasty", who would have thunk?
Shannon L. Alder
#19. I don't understand why Christians are taking such a bashing ... and why do we glorify people that do destructive things?
Kevin Sorbo
#20. Some people have jobs where other people don't clap for them. I don't understand that.
Laura Benanti
#21. I'm not always comfortable when a man tells me he's gay, I don't understand his world but I do understand that he's part of mine.
Dale Hansen
#22. It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home.
Nick Hornby
#23. I don't understand why people expect tips. In hotels you order food in your room, and it's already more expensive from the room service menu, so it's a cheek to expect a tip on top. I do sometimes reward good service, but it should be at my discretion, and I'm not going to be held to ransom.
Bernard Hill
#24. I'm kind of ashamed to be a celebrity. I don't understand wanting to read about other people's dirty laundry. I think celebrity is the biggest red herring society has ever pulled on itself.
Jude Law
#25. I don't know. I don't understand how boys think. If I knew that I'd be a millionare.
Magan Vernon
#26. Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters."
Computer: "I don't understand-"
Issac: "Me neither. Pause
John Green
#27. I don't understand why women get upset when you compare them to one of the monkeys from Planet of the Apes, even one of the heroic ones, like Dr. Zera.
David James
#28. I know a lot of people who wouldn't be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don't understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.
Dave Grohl
#29. I don't understand
how everything moves so quickly.
They say time flies when you're having fun,
but I wasn't always having fun.
Even when I was mad or sad,
time was always on the run.
Amanda Leigh
#30. I don't understand why very, very rich people want to have even more money than they've already got.
John Cleese
#31. With all the people hating and hurting each other, I don't understand how people could get upset about people of the same sex caring for each other.
Michael Franti
#32. I don't smoke at all. I think that cigarettes are actually retarded. I don't understand why people do that to themselves.
Tyler, The Creator
#33. What I don't understand is how a policy against outing trumps a policy of reporting. Whenever you're reporting on hypocrisy, you're kind of 'outing' something to begin with.
Kirby Dick
#34. I whirled, fighting a wave of dizziness as I pointed at Sylvester and snapped, "Don't you 'October' me. He is my family . Even if you couldn't respect that, I don't understand how the hell you got Quentin to go along with you."
- Toby to Sylvester in reference to Tybalt.
Seanan McGuire
#35. I don't understand German myself. I learned it at school, but forgot every word of it two years after I had left, and have felt much better ever since.
Jerome K. Jerome
#36. I don't understand why some kids git a good school and mother and father and some don't. But Rita say forgit the WHY ME shit and git on to what's next.
Sapphire.
#37. All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree - I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing.
Andrea Corr
#38. That's why I don't understand why actors become arrogant and are completely unapproachable - because as an actor, the most valuable thing you can do is talk to people and hear their stories, because it'll all come in handy.
Daniel Radcliffe
#39. My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.
Ma Huateng
#40. I don't understand how everything changes, how the layers of your life get buried. Impossible. At some point, at some time, we must all explode.
Lauren Oliver
#41. Jesse is a good guy, although I don't understand the infatuation with the spandex he is always running around in.
Holly Hood
#42. All the emails I get these days start with sorry but I've been so busy, and I don't understand how we can be so busy and then have nothing to say to each other.
Jon McGregor
#43. If I don't understand it, it must be art.
Bono
#44. I don't understand bus lanes. Why do poor people have to get to places quicker than I do?
Jeremy Clarkson
#45. I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves.
John Malkovich
#46. It's terrifying, that unconditional love you have for a child. I still wonder if she really came from me, from my womb. It's a miracle. I don't understand it. I live it very intensely.
Anne Parillaud
#47. I don't understand these new coaches who don't drink. What do they do when they get beat?
Abe Lemons
#48. (from: Age Sixty-nine)
Often, lately, the night is a cold maw
and stars the scattered white teeth of the gods, which spare none of us. At dawn I have birds, clearly divine messengers that I don't understand
yet day by day feel the grace of their intentions.
Jim Harrison
#49. Honestly, I don't understand why people get so worked up about a little murder!
Patricia Highsmith
#50. Out the effects of the former. Do you think I don't understand economics? How many times do I have to
Louis De Bernieres
#51. You know, you're topping from the bottom," he murmurs against my lips.
"What?" I don't understand what he's talking about.
"Don't worry. I'll live with it," he whispers, amused ...
E.L. James
#52. Corset,' Mrs. Erskine? I don't understand." Because she was trussed up in one herself, she couldn't comprehend how Ariah had escaped hers.
Joyce Carol Oates
#53. I don't understand some people, using biblical terms to criticize me when this is just a game.
Johnny Damon
#54. There's definitely a whole double standard. I don't understand it. A guy can be sexy and good-looking, and it totally just enhances his credibility as an athlete.
Lolo Jones
#55. I stand back from him. I don't understand. You've seen parts of me that are not perfect, and you still love me?
Liza Palmer
#56. Why should I refuse a good dinner simply because I don't understand the digestive processes involved?
Oliver Heaviside
#57. I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and put them on cholesterol lowering drugs for the rest of their lives.
Dean Ornish
#58. One-hundred percent, even now I doubt myself. I don't understand what people hear in my voice. I can't hear it myself, if you know what I mean.
Sam Smith
#59. I don't understand anorexia; I'm too greedy to ever not eat ... I just can't do it.
Keshia Knight Pulliam
#60. Chang said, "I don't understand how you drink so much coffee." "Law of gravity," Reacher said. "If you tip it up, it comes right out. You can't help but drink it.
Lee Child
#61. Your father is angry with me because he thinks I almost got myself killed,' said Sabriel, with a slight grin. 'I don't understand it myself, since I think he should be glad that I didn't.
Garth Nix
#62. I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.
Peter Singer
#63. Sherlock shrugged. "I don't understand the need for power, really. There are more important pursuits."
"Only those who have never felt powerless can afford to think like you.
Heather W. Petty
#64. The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race.
Chris Ware
#65. I don't understand the sizes anymore. There's a size zero, which I didn't even know that they had. It must stand for: 'Ohhh my God, you're thin.'
Ellen DeGeneres
#66. I don't understand what it's all about or what's worth what, but if the people in the Swedish Academy decide that x, y or z wins the Nobel Prize, then so be it.
Richard P. Feynman
#67. The most common thing that real reporters say to me is, "I wish I could say what you say." What I don't understand is, why can't they say what I say, even in their own way? Does that mean they want to be able to name certain bald contradictions or hypocrisies that politicians have?
Stephen Colbert
#68. I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.
Malcolm Gladwell
#69. Even when I played sports when I was little, I played to win. Otherwise, what's the point of putting the pads on and going to practice? I don't understand.
Zakk Wylde
#70. I think it's all absolute nonsense how people talk about photography as being an art. It's a very menial career that you do if you draw badly. Now they teach it at the Royal College of Art and get grand about it. It's the only course there that I don't understand.
Antony Armstrong-Jones
#71. I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people talk about celebrity and fame. I don't understand the attraction.
Cate Blanchett
#72. I don't understand how the pain of losing him can be a pale shadow in comparison to the pain of finding him again.
Amy Engel
#73. When I see the Confederate flag, I see the attempt to raise an empire in slavery. It really, really is that simple. I don't understand how anybody with any sort of education on the Civil War can see anything else.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#74. I don't understand anything ... and I no longer want to understand anything. I want to stick to the fact ... If I wanted to understand something, I would immediately have to betray the fact, but I've made up my mind to stick to the fact.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#75. I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
Gary Ross
#76. I don't understand how most pop stars live this life being told what to do, what to wear, all the time. Maybe money does mean more to some people.
Miley Cyrus
#77. But Daisy told me you're mad at God" -Violet
"Mad doesn't mean I stop believing. There are just some things I don't understand" -Mom
Brenda Woods
#78. I don't understand. How does reading stories about others answer those questions for me?" "That is what I'm hoping you will understand - every story we read, Sang Ly, is about us, in one way or another.
Camron Wright
#79. I don't understand why we're not allowed on the oder side of the fence. What's so wrong with us that we can't go there and play?
John Boyne
#80. Emotional, physical, and spiritual estrangement and ontological and religious doubt inform my personality, my thoughts, and my characters, which are, more often than not, masks for my own being and my being in the world - a world that frightens me insofar as I don't understand it.
Norman Lock
#81. The rank of a university is similar to an index number say like the NASDAQ index. I don't understand how you can take an institution like Harvard, Stanford, or Michigan, and represent it by an index number. The concept makes no sense.
Henry Rosovsky
#82. I have never been in a war before, but I have seen famine and death. I was asking (myself) what do they feel when they do this? I don't understand it. They are all children of God. Why do they do it. I don't understand.
Mother Teresa
#83. I like relativity and quantum theories because I don't understand them and they make me feel as if space shifted about like a swan that can't settle, refusing to sit still and be measured; and as if the atom were an impulsive thing always changing its mind.
D.H. Lawrence
#84. Just because I don't understand god's plans does not mean that he is not with me.
Nick Vujicic
#85. Brother will kill brother, spill blood across the land. Killing for religion, something I don't understand. Fools like me who cross the sea and come to foreign lands, ask the sheep for their beliefs; 'Do you kill on God's command?'
Dave Mustaine
#86. I don't know why you won't even look me in the eye. I don't understand anything you're doing or saying, and it's killing me, because I already don't undestand a single thing about me or Michael or Becky or my brother or anything on this shitty planet.
Alice Oseman
#87. He looks away.
And he smiles.
Its the kind of smile that makes me forget how to do everything but blink and blink and I don't understand what's happening to me. I don't know why I cant convince my eyes to find something else to focus on.
I don't know why my heart is losing its mind.
Tahereh Mafi
#88. I'm a coward, I close my eyes. I don't understand why God made sight the only sense that can be blocked off.
Christopher Pike
#89. There are many things that I don't understand.
Billy Graham
#90. This two-way hatred. I don't understand it. I wonder how much of it is caused by fear?
Judy Blume
#92. I get a headache when films are too filled up with people. And I don't understand what's going on if there are too many extras walking around. This film was very comfortable for me, I want to see just the actors. This is how I can concentrate.
Eran Kolirin
#93. I don't think the Federal Reserve has any role in how high rates are right now. I don't understand why everyone is paying attention to this tapering. The Fed is using one kind of bond to buy another kind of bond. What's the big deal, and why is anyone taking the Fed seriously?
Eugene Fama
#94. I don't understand why people in this country are so bent on doing the 'perfect', when you have something that is good and makes sense from a cost-benefit point of view.
George Voinovich
#95. The afterlife I'm not so sure about. So, I don't understand why you'd want to hurt other people in thinking that you'll go on in the afterlife to have bliss. I just don't understand it.
Charlie Benante
#96. I'm not involved in any Philadelphia-related game or situation. When people claim I'm going to have a "vendetta" against every other Eastern Conference team I don't understand the logic: I'm not the one doling out the punishment.
Chris Pronger
#97. The only ones I really dislike are the E.D. patients. I don't understand why they get to wake Michael up at 3 a.m. if they get an erection, but I have to wait until 7.
Eli Easton
#98. why are you ending our engagement then?"
"Because of the reason you fought it" (The duel)
"I don't understand."
"I know
Jayne Castle
#99. I don't buy anything which is Islamization of knowledge. I don't understand what it means in fact.
Tariq Ramadan
#100. Last month we had to sit through a presentation on eliminating redundancy, and it was a bunch of Power Point slides, plus a guy reading out what was on the slides, and then he gave us all hard copies. I don't understand these things.
Max Barry
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