He stopped, embarrassed, and Morgan said, `` I understand that, but I don't savvy why you'd go off and leave your jobs in the first place ''.

I didn't understand why, Clay.

Though I doubted that he would understand me, I told the director my motives for applying.

If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;

`` I don't understand '', she insisted.

Fruit compote: `` If you think I would understand it '' ; ;

The Australian stopped trying to talk a pidgin I could understand, and spoke strange words from deep in his chest.

But on one occasion when I encountered a similar fantasy in a little boy who was my patient I began to understand the uncanny effects of this story.

as I understand it, Mr. Hammarskjold wanted outside advice.

`` We were requested by the Secretary General, as I understand it, to discuss with you such matters as appear to us to be relevant, and we are not of course either a formal group or a committee in the sense of being guided by any rules or regulations of the Secretariat.

Anyone who has watched children develop a taste for literature will understand what I mean.

`` I understand [ Hearst ] is a candidate for Presidential honors '', Devery said without cracking a smile.

Many of my friends at the time thought that I had received a well-deserved condemnation when Lincoln Steffens denounced me in a review of one of my books as a perfect example of the obsolete man who could understand and sympathize only with the dead past.

I understand very well about Lauro Di Bosis and how his action is symbolic.

He said to the Secretary, `` I understand you came from a little Pennsylvania town near Wilkes-Barre.

`` Reverend '', he said, `` I think you don't quite understand the situation here.

I don't understand why a white hotel should be down here ''.

`` I understand ''.

`` I goddamn well understand ''.

`` I goddamn well understand.

My God, how long is he going to wait, I thought.

This impressed me, until I realized how limited was his sphere of influence.

When one of the men in the hall behind us spat on the floor and scraped his boot over the gob of spittle I noticed how the clerk winced.

By counting the number of stalls and urinals I attempted to form a loose estimate of how many men the hall would hold at one time.

For although I had crossed a corner of the hall on my way to the toilet I still could not tell for sure how far to the rear the darkness extended.

`` Might get there faster walkin' '', Lord drawled, `` seein' as how I got a busted front spring.

`` I heard how you outdrew Chico.

How lightly her `` eventshah-leh '' passed into the crannies where I was storing dialect material for some vaguely dreamed opus, and how the word would echo.

I remembered, too, the jesting voice of a classmate, Bobby Pauson: `` But how do they reproduce, Dr. Griggs??

Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

`` By observing the conductor '', he says with a twinkle in his eyes, `` I learned how not to conduct ''.

Since he introduces so much modern music, I could not resist asking how he felt about it.

I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 -- if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject.

Once, then -- for how many years or how few does not matter -- my world was bound round by fences, when I was too small to reach the apple tree bough, to twist my knee over it and pull myself up.

A useful comment on his relation to his region may be made, I think, by noting briefly how in handling Southern materials and Southern problems he has deviated from the pattern set by other Southern authors while remaining faithful to the essential character of the region.

But I can see from this latest trick of memory how much more arbitrary and influential it is than the will.

When I speak of how Shann felt, I know well.

`` I care not how soon we reach Calcutta, and are placed in a still room, with a bowl of milk and a loaf of Indian bread.

Even Harriet could boldly write, `` I know not how it is ; ;

No matter how large the fire, I couldn't seem to shake off the chill that day.

But if you are able & care to come, you know how glad I shall be.