Incomprehension Or Noncomprehension Quotes

#1. If we waited until everyone was unbroken, we'd never connect with anyone

Lynn Charles

#2. Personally, I think Jim Henson said it best when he said "Anybody got an aspirin? I think I've got a cold."

Denis Leary

#3. But no turbulent emotions passed through me as he spoke, only a diluted version of the nauseating sensation that had taken hold the day in Bombay that I learned my mother was dying, a sensation that had dropped anchor in me and never fully left.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#4. I wasn't going to be an actor. I was going to be a lawyer. I came from a family just above working class, just below middle class, a great family of wonderful values. The idea of me having a chance for a law degree was enticing. Enticing to me but also very enticing to my family.

Gerard Butler

#5. Eventually, when I started studying Egyptology, I realized that seeing with my naked eyes alone wasn't enough. Because all of the sudden, in Egypt, my beach had grown from a tiny beach in Maine to one eight hundred miles long, next to the Nile.

Sarah Parcak

#6. I'm fascinated by management and organizations: how organizations get things done and how successful organizations are built and maintained, how they evolve as they grow from start-ups to small companies to medium companies to big companies.

Mitch Kapor

#7. War is not natural. We have to be trained for it, soldiers and citizens alike.

Ann Jones

#8. In liberating Iraq, we have rid the nation and the rest of the world from the danger of Saddam Hussein.

Elizabeth Dole

#9. The romantic view would be that nomads are wonderful people, better than us; they care about the environment.

Robyn Davidson

#10. I try to shake it loose-but these ideas, they cling. It's like I'm shackled to them with an iron chain. They rattle along behind me, dragging against the ground, always reminding me of their presence.

Maureen Johnson

#11. I said anything I wanted because I don't believe in children I don't believe in childhood. I don't believe that there's a demarcation. 'Oh you mustn't tell them that. You mustn't tell them that.' You tell them anything you want. Just tell them if it's true. If it's true you tell them.

Maurice Sendak

#12. There are very few instances where writers have also been effective image makers - different skill sets are required.

Fred Ritchin

#13. [T]ime is more purely hers if she squanders it and keeps it empty, holds it, feels it pass by, and resists filling it with anything that might put some too-useful dent in its open, airy emptiness.

Rachel Kushner

#14. She was thirteen T-years older than he, but there was something uncannily familiar about his emotions where she was concerned. Somehow, without realizing it was happening, she'd acquired a MacGuiness with a gun, and she suspected her life would never be quite the same again. She

David Weber

#15. Thinking about such things soothed the creature as it dug at the base of a tall oak tree, deep into the ground, covering itself with dirt and leaves and moss; hiding, healing, waiting.

Joe DeRouen