I have NEVER UNDERSTOOD the REASON and LOGIC of SMOKING.

The YEAR 2008 was a reminder to those who had FORGOTTEN that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well UNDERSTOOD in the Middle Ages, was not SUDDENLY abolished in modern times.

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so IMPORTANT to the SUCCESS of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the AUDIENCE and feels the warmth CREATED by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

For Mantle, the YANKEES' locker room was a SANCTUARY, a safe haven where he was understood, ACCEPTED and, when necessary, exonerated.

We've GOT to make SURE that the young, violent, serious juvenile offender is punished, that it's FAIR punishment, that it's punishment that fits the CRIME and that is understood and that is anticipated and expected.

To say it very HONESTLY, removed from ego, STANDUP is just a THING that I understood, a God-given ABILITY.

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - LITTLE better UNDERSTOOD, little better practiced now than three or FOUR THOUSAND years ago.

It's HUMAN DESIRE to be UNDERSTOOD. And we ALWAYS FEEL we're not understood.

Before I really even understood what the term MEANT, I wanted to be WEALTHY. I wanted to be ABLE to drive the BEAUTIFUL old Rolls-Royces my father admired when I was a CHILD.

I began WRITING when I was still in the BRITISH Foreign SERVICE, and it was then understood that even if you wrote about BUTTERFLY COLLECTING, you used another name.

In her VERSE, she SAYS: 'It's me and Karol G, and we let the rats talk.' I DIED, I revived, I died and revived again until I UNDERSTOOD Nicki Minaj had said my name in her verse.

What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books GET from the AMERICAN PRESS. They are so on the ball COMPARED to ANYWHERE else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.

I suppose that was my first BIT of ACTING, the acquisition of an English accent. It was REALLY just an ATTEMPT to be UNDERSTOOD.

I didn't REALLY understand what you did when you went in FRONT of the CAMERA. And then suddenly I just UNDERSTOOD it. When you're in a play, you carry the story, but you don't have to do that in film.

Behrens had a great sense of the great FORM. that was his MAIN INTEREST; and that I certainly UNDERSTOOD and learned from him.