Quotes About Misconceptions

Any woman who thinks the way to a man's heart is through his stomach is aiming about 10 inches too high.

People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfeld next to me.

I could write about coal miners in Northern Pennsylvania, and people would ask if I was writing about my dad.

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

If people perceive 'Roots' to be a black history show, nobody is going to watch it.

As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight.

America is so accustomed to some depiction of native people that is entirely racist, and there's a perception that that is okay.

I think the perception of audiences that love folk and country is they're perceived to be more closed-minded than they really are.

People should see my work and think beyond what I am on daily basis, on Twitter, Instagram, or the perception they have of me in their heads.

The perception is if you are not 206lbs then you can't be considered main event talent, which is foolish.

There's this perception that you can't be more than one thing. That if you're dubbed 'sexy' you can no longer be anything else. That you become intellectually uncomplicated, incapable of accomplishing anything other than appearing to be an object for men. And it's rubbish.

People read things on Google, and they have these perceptions, these misconceived perceptions of who you are. At times that hurts, because they really don't know who I am.

We need to challenge this assumption that any child who's alone, who isn't being directly supervised and observed, is a child in in peril.

One of the most persistent misconceptions about blindness is that it is a curse from God for misdeeds perpetrated in a past life, which cloaks the blind person in spiritual darkness and makes him not just dangerous, but evil.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious — just dead wrong.

All generalizations are bad.

Much of what passes as Reformed among our churches is not.

Whenever anyone finds out there are seven kids in my family, the imagine my mom and dad having sex.

Whenever anyone finds out there are seven kids in my family, they imagine my mom and dad having sex.

And one of the things that I learned was you can't generalise at all about a woman in a veil. You can't think you know her story, because she will confound you over and over again. She may be an engineer or a diplomat or a doctor. Or she may be an unbelievable babe with bleached hair down to her waist.

Now, if you are like me - if you are like practically anybody in America - then you probably hold some negative opinions about the French, based upon movies, rumors, recent headlines, unfortunate run-ins with Parisian waiters, or... you know... all that unpleasantness surrounding the Vichy regime.

I went out for a film where they wanted seven brothers and one sister, so I was there for half a day while they were waiting for 'Archie' to read for a boy... I've had drivers come to pick me up in England looking for a blond, blue-eyed Scottish boy.

One of the big misconceptions about me is that I walk around in mini-skirts and high heels twenty-four seven and go to the gym in heels.

I thought Christians were walking idiots.