We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.

If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.

It was always understood that we would look at it again when the survey was done.

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

It was understood that when I left to do the pilot that I wasn't coming back.