Top 100 Never Understood Quotes
#1. Larger than life ... I've never understood that expression. What's larger than life?
Nicole Krauss
#2. The voice belonged to Mr. Pzyrbovich, an algebra teacher who was always called Mr. P, for obvious reasons. He has a heavy accent, which a lot of kids said made him hard to understand, although to be fair some of these kids would have never understood algebra anyway.
Dave Barry
#3. People never understood that there was Brian and The Boz. They were two completely different people.
Brian Bosworth
#4. I never understood redemption when I was young. Even before I was an atheist, I always thought with the prodigal son, "well, why's he getting the special treatment?".
Ricky Gervais
#5. I have never understood the point of holidays, have never felt the need for them and have always just wanted to do more work.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#6. I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.
Thomas Sowell
#7. I've never understood the need people have to dictate morality to other people. I really don't know what it is. I don't know if it's fear or the belief that they know the only right way. Or maybe they see a lot of social ills and social decline, and they really think they have the elixir for it.
Stephen Chbosky
#8. I think of that word, power, and what it means. It means you feed your people, you help the world. I never understood what else there was to it
Linda Hogan
#9. To me, I've never understood why there is any question about are women as funny as men.
Judd Apatow
#10. I've never understood why women love cats. Cats are independent, they don't listen, they don't come in when you call, they like to stay out all night, and when they're home they like to be left alone and sleep. In other words, every quality that women hate in a man, they love in a cat.
Jay Leno
#11. I loved problems on paper, and I was good at math, but I was a mechanical engineer, and I never understood - or cared to - how a car worked.
Rabih Alameddine
#12. I like rain and mist. I've never understood why people exclaim over bright skies and bushels of glaring sunshine.
Franny Billingsley
#13. What you ain't never understood is that I ain't got nothing, don't own nothing, ain't never really wanted nothing that wasn't for you. There ain't nothing as precious to me ... There ain't nothing worth holding on to, money, dreams, nothing else
Lorraine Hansberry
#14. I never understood bands saying Nirvana had anything to do with derailing their career. Maybe those bands didn't have the goods.
Nikki Sixx
#15. If you have something, then everyone will want a piece of it. So you have to draw the line somewhere. If everyone is family, no one is family. Your father, he never understood this, I think.
Barack Obama
#16. I never understood whether the word 'amnesty' is correct or not. Maybe I am not very intelligent but I checked the dictionary to find the meaning.
Kapil Dev
#17. I've never understood the notion that actors and actresses should look great on-screen just because they're on-screen. That doesn't make sense to me.
Kate Winslet
#18. I'm a chalkboard that's been erased over and over again until there's nothing left but a haze of white dust. Before this I never understood how long an hour could take, how many ticks of the second hand are in a minute, how endless the space between seconds can be.
Sarah McCarry
#19. I never understood the idea that I was a 'backpack rapper.' I think that's a lazy way that people started thinking. They like saying that because I got dreads. I look like I belong a certain place, so it's easy to put everything in a box.
Wale
#20. It's OK if Tim McGraw goes and does a movie, and it's OK if Justin Timberlake does a movie, but it's not OK for an actor to become a singer. I never understood that.
Christian Kane
#21. The truth is she was a fearless apprentice but lacked all talent for guided fornication. She never understood the charm of serenity in bed, never had a moment of invention, and her orgasms were inopportune and epidermic.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#22. Jaded. I never understood the term. Jade is pretty and worth something, yes? I was rusted if I was anything. Too long in the rain. Going out in an orange blaze of muted, anonymous, common-as-dirt oxidation.
Trebor Healey
#23. They never understood
one single little thing
of my life.
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende
Our One Neverending Story
Petra Hermans
#24. I've never understood why the end of a relationship - especially one involving children - has to immediately signal a descent into hatred and toxicity.
John Niven
#25. When I was growing up, I never understood why other kids never liked to climb trees or explore the woods,
Emigh Cannaday
#26. Good-byes are sad, but they don't have to be. We always knew we'd be moving on, we just never understood what it took to do it, and what we got to take from the people and places we left.
Alexis Bass
#27. He used to - when he was just a kitten - stand and stare up at us as if asking a question. We never understood what the question was. Maybe now he knows the answer.
Philip K. Dick
#28. They envy your youth. You two are like exotic creatures from the land of the young.'
I've never understood all that these-are-the-best-years-of-your-life crap. If this is as good as it gets then I might as well quit now. Let me get to the shimmery oasis of adulthood.
Leanne Hall
#29. I have never understood, for example, how come a child can climb up on the roof, scale the TV antenna, and rescue the cat ... yet cannot walk down the hallway without grabbing both walls with his grubby hands for balance.
Erma Bombeck
#30. I know that many people kill off their real personality just to fit into this society, but why do we have to compromise? I never understood that. I decided to try to be myself and to live by my own values rather than those of others.
Novala Takemoto
#31. I've never understood activity holidays since we seem to have far too much activity in our daily lives as it is. Find a culture where loafing is the order of the day and where they don't understand our need to be constantly doing things. Find somewhere you can have a hammock holiday.
Tom Hodgkinson
#32. Ye have taught me something I never understood."
"What? How to get rid of Parisian Pink Pecker Disease?
Vonnie Davis
#33. Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.
Alanis Morissette
#34. I'd never understood whether the vogue for apologising is a sign of humility of impudence: you do something you shouldn't have done, then you apologise and wash your hands of it.
Umberto Eco
#35. I never understood where the satisfaction is when you're missing the pleasure of conquest.
Silvio Berlusconi
#36. Libidinous, adj.
I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor. Until I was with you and I realized: you don't realize you're on the floor.
David Levithan
#37. It's the only thing I never understood about him,that he had you ... he had you right in the palm of his hand. And yet somehow he didn't want to spend every second of every day touching you all over. He didn't want to make love to you.
Charlotte Stein
#38. Two days after my dad's funeral, my mom went on a mission. I never understood it until then
that sometimes a spy doesn't need a cover so much as she needs a shield.
Ally Carter
#39. Teachers teach and do the world good, Kings just rule and most are never understood
KRS-One
#40. Luke mentioned that a lot of people go to the Kumbh Mela festival to 'find themselves'. That's a saying I've never understood. If I did want to find myself, I don't think I'd find me at a festival with 20 million other people. I hate crowds. The
Karl Pilkington
#41. I remember when Circuit City was around, I never understood why people would shop there. I always thought Best Buy had a better selection and cheaper prices.
Kerry King
#42. There's a reason straight men call us 'cocksuckers'. I've just never understood why it's considered an insult.
B. Snow
#43. Growing up, the two things that made my blood boil were religious intolerance and animal cruelty. I've never understood it. I can't stand to have an animal in pain.
Ricky Gervais
#44. I've never understood the allure of putting your name on a building that was built with taxpayers' money.
Mick Mulvaney
#45. Never understood how much I loved you. I didn't. I know how we talked about our love, how it was this thing that was EVERYTHING to us? I was everything to me, Ever, every last goddamned motherfucking thing, and it's gone. You're gone. And I needed it even more than I knew then, when I had you.
Jasinda Wilder
#46. I never understood that everyone feels lost temporarily when they want to change their world and the state of their life
Priya Kumar
#47. He served humankind but never understood people, and though he yearned with all his heart for love and companionship, year after year he could bear humanity less and less in the flesh. His
Jan Swafford
#48. I've never understood why every character being "hot" was necessary for enjoying a TV show.
Tina Fey
#49. I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.
William Ralph Inge
#50. The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
Hank Aaron
#51. I never understood why she didn't marry you."
The king settled further into the seat with a snort. "Maybe the prospect of being driven out of her mind put her off.
Megan Whalen Turner
#52. I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.
Audrey Niffenegger
#53. I'm a tomboy now. I always wanted to fit in with my brother's group, so I climbed trees and played with lead soldiers. But I'm a woman's woman. I never understood women who don't have woman friends.
Naomi Watts
#54. Personally, I've never understood inactivity. Why a person would sit when he could soar, be a spectator when he could play, or atrophy when he could develop ... is beyond me!
Bill Hybels
#55. Why one enjoys maternal grandparents more than the paternal ones, i have never understood, but it was like that for me.
Aporva Kala
#56. I never understood the hit-single, quick-success, get-airplay mentality.
Nikki Sixx
#57. People who have lived their whole lives feeling half-complete. Who never truly fit anywhere in the world. Who never understood why they were here, or what they were meant for. Who never answered the call, because they never heard it. Because nothing ever spoke to them.
Guillermo Del Toro
#58. People who have car collections - I never understood that. I always thought that was unnecessary. It's not beautiful, it's not creative. It's just showing how much money you've got.
Daniel Radcliffe
#59. I've never understood people who return books after they've obviously read them. "Oh no, that dog-eared page was there when I bought it." Like hell it was. How about I punch you in the bloody face and tell you that bruise was there before and then we'll call it even.
Karina Halle
#60. Oh, I would say, you've never understood me, Harry, that not out of vengeance have I accomplished all my sins but because something has always been close to dying in my soul, and I've sinned only in order to lie down in darkness and find, somewhere in the net of dreams, a new father, a new home.
William Styron
#61. Never understood a lot about the world ... music is one of the only things that makes any sense.
Austin Carlile
#62. My wife said to me ... you never understood what we were going through back home, did you? And I didn't. And I have to confess that.
Oliver North
#63. Scott took LITERATURE so solemnly. He never understood that it was just writing as well as you can and finishing what you start.
Ernest Hemingway,
#64. I've never understood having crushes on people who you don't know in real life.
Emma Watson
#66. [I] never understood [what a republican government was and] I believe no other man ever did or ever will.
John Adams
#67. I am not a retailer - I have never run a store; I have never understood the full details of how you can make a consumer satisfied. To build a company, to do deals, to motivate people: this is what I am able to do.
Stefano Pessina
#68. I never understood the nudity thing. I'm so envious of people who can walk around naked.
Robert Pattinson
#69. I never understood the point of juicing - I always thought I could get enough nutrients from eating fruit and vegetables - but now I'm a convert.
Thandie Newton
#70. No, thanks,' said Sam, who had never understood why he often refused drinks he would have liked to accept.
Sophie Hannah
#71. Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be.
Ruth Park
#72. I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about.
Brad Holland
#73. He just never understood how white people could be racist in South Africa. "Africa is full of black people," he would say. "So why would you come all the way to Africa if you hate black people? If you hate black people so much, why did you move into their house?" To him it was insane. Because
Trevor Noah
#75. I never understood the theory, once popular among doctors, that blamed mental disorders on too little or too much mother love. My own mother was my darling.
Gene Tierney
#76. Nothing had changed. I was the stupid one again. I was the girl who never understood who she was to people.
Carol Rifka Brunt
#77. When I was young there were some things I didn't understand.
I never understood how Superman could love Lois Lane ...
Jaree Francis
#78. I'm extremely straightforward. And I can't do that sort of traditional girl thing of saying one thing that actually means something else. I never understood it, and I still don't understand it.
Susanne Bier
#79. I've never understood people that sleep around. I think there's something very lacking in your life when you do, not to be judgmental.
Gemma Arterton
#80. I've never understood the female capacity to avoid a direct answer to any question.
Leonard Nimoy
#81. I've never understood why people get mad at others for not being interested in them romantically - especially when there are so many reasons to be mad at people that are within their control.
Ingrid Weir
#82. I've never understood the 'things to do before you die' idea. If I was ill, I'd be in no mood to have a swim with a dolphin.
Karl Pilkington
#83. The thing I've never understood about dancing till now is that it only looks stupid when you're on the outside, watching other people do it. When you're part of the crowd, moving along with everyone else, I can't imagine anything else being quite as much fun.
Tom Ryan
#84. I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice ...
China Mieville
#85. I've never understood people who just go out for one drink. Once I have one drink, I want all the drinks.
Vicki Lesage
#86. I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
Quentin Crisp
#87. Al Michaels is a good announcer. I think Keith Jackson is a terrific announcer. I always loved him on Monday Night Football. I never understood why they got rid of him.
John Turturro
#88. Your tattoos are supposed to be some connection to your personality. That's a lot more important than going in and just picking one off a wall. I've never understood why people get butterflies tattooed on their bottoms or whatever. That's really weird.
Ville Valo
#89. For the last 10 years, I've felt increasing pressure to stop shooting film and start shooting video, but I've never understood why. It's cheaper to work on film, it's far better looking, it's the technology that's been known and understood for a hundred years, and it's extremely reliable.
Christopher Nolan
#90. I've never understood the point of ecstasy. I think if I wanted to get dehydrated and jump about with a load of people I've never met before I could go to a Methodist barn dance.
Victoria Wood
#91. I never understood why people take drugs. They're habit forming and they can kill you. I didn't need anything to pep me up or make me feel more creative, and I didn't need them to help me with women.
Stan Lee
#92. I have never understood that. I come from a place where the press makes or breaks an actor and it is more of a teamwork relationship.
Michelle Trachtenberg
#93. I've never understood why people choose to do the things that are hardest for them.
Laura Ruby
#94. I never understood retirement. What is the attraction of retirement? I go down there to Florida and look around and I said, my God, who wants this? Not me.
Andy Rooney
#95. The life you live in as an author is nothing but lies. The men you create, the men you read, it's all bullshit. I never understood your need for it when you have me.
E.K. Blair
#96. I never understood a word John Cassavetes said. And I think he did that deliberately.
Peter Falk
#97. You don't write what you know, or you would write one thing. I never understood that. You write what you want to find out.
Nora Roberts
#98. I never understood why anyone would do magazines. Like, why would someone put their face out there so much? It's because those people reading magazines will go see the movie, so you do it.
Elizabeth Olsen
#99. I never understood how men could remember all those details about sports but, yet, were incapable of remembering where they set their car keys or wallet.
Tina Reber
#100. To this day, I've never understood why McDonald's sell a range of salads. To me, that's like a funeral director selling life insurance or a dentist selling sweets.
Andy Leeks
