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.

I understand how you feel about the child.

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.

`` 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.

And you wanted no part of me when I had so much to give.

I just wanted to hear you say so ''.

The way his red rubber lips were stretched across his pearly little teeth I thought he was only having a little joke, but, no, he wanted me to bend down from the roar of wind so he could roar something into my ear.

And so I would only touch upon it now ( much as I have long wanted to write a book about it ).

Cloud made an interesting statement in parting from his client: `` I wanted to be a lawyer, and Mrs. Wright wanted me to be an avenging angel.

), I have never wanted to know what you knew of passion.

I wanted to help so that we could find time to play.

My `` touchstones, had, been strictly '' literature and, humanly enough, American literature ( because that was what I wanted to write ).

I wanted to grab her by the arm and beg her to wait, to consider, to know for certain because life is so long and marriage is so important.

The funeral for my husband was just what I wanted and I paid a fair price, far less than I had expected to pay.

I wanted to wipe my flint, but I didn't dare to, the state my hands were in, just as I didn't dare to do anything about the priming.

All I ever wanted was to be a free man in my own country.

It was just me and Eileen getting drunk together like we used to in the old days, and me staring at her across the table crazy to get my hands on her partly because I wanted to wring her neck because she was so ornery but mostly because she was so wonderful to touch.

I said sure that was what I wanted her to do but she paid no attention.

Under the circumstances, I had difficulty keeping up with the conversation on the phone, but when I hung up I was reasonably certain that Francesca had wanted to remind me of our town meeting the next evening, and how important it was that Hank and I be there.

`` I felt that I must devote myself to the ' outside ' world ''.

Going through the Imperial Gate in the wall, I entered the grounds of Topkapi Palace, home of the Sultans and nerve center of the vast Ottoman Empire, and walked along a road toward another gate in the distance, past the Church of St. Irene, completed by Constantine in 330 A.D. on my left, and then, just outside the second gate, I saw a spring with a tap in the wall on my right -- the Executioner's Spring, where he washed his hands and his sword after beheading his victims.

I tried my hardest, with little help, may I say, from my husband and leading man, but somehow the outside pressures were too severe.

Andy told him, `` Bake, I wish you'd talk to Skolman, see if some kind of p. a. system can be rigged up outside.

Although still aware of a great light and glow of warmth in the Book, I stood outside shivering in the cold.

There was no doubt in my mind that if I crossed him, mobs would appear outside our windows shouting `` Paredon!!

Via was in the parking lot when I went outside.

I mentioned it to Chris one stifling hot night, when I had slipped outside for a breath of fresh air.

The boys were already waiting in the corridor outside my office when I got to Fairview.

We'd been standing right outside Miss Bancroft's door and as I went to turn the knob to enter, I was surprised to find that the door was slightly ajar.

`` I feel I must answer the question '', he said, `` since the onus later, if any, should fall on me -- I don't relish recriminations spread broadcast outside my family.

`` I heard a story once about a rookie who got excited when the captain stepped outside and he couldn't get an encephalographic reading on him.

`` All I know is that you were outside the bubbles last night, and you were the only sentient being who came in or out of our alarm web.

I was not sure the magic worked outside the church walls ... in the open air of Mississippi.

De Palma describes the sequence as a constant invocation of Brechtian distanciation: “ First of all, I am interested in the medium of film itself, and I am constantly standing outside and making people aware that they are always watching a film.

I cannot conceive of my destiny separate from Russia, or outside it.