Quotes About Misconceptions

Sitcoms, I always figured that would be an easy gig, but man, it is not.

Not everybody that loves country music is 'sitting on a bar stool/feelin' like a durn fool.'

Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players.

When you graduate and come out with a degree in drama, that doesn't mean you're skilled and you're a professional.

People have accused me of bleaching my skin, of getting a nose job. They squint at my mom, like, 'I didn't know Wendy was Asian.' I am black all day, honey pie. I am black and very proud.

I love Los Angeles. I love when people make fun of it. I think, 'Good, don't come.' All the jokes about it feel out of date.

People are such idiots. As if there's something wrong with being in love.

Love is nothing, nothing, nothing like they say.

People love pitting strong females against each other.

The concept "penis envy," which Freud coined to describe a phenomenon he observed in women—that is, in the middle-class women who were his patients in Vienna in the Victorian era—was seized in this country in the 1940's as the literal explanation of all that was wrong with American women.

Right up to the closing years of the eighteenth century... scientists everywhere searched for, and sometimes believed they had actually found, things that just weren't there: vitiated airs, dephlogisticated marine acids, phloxes, calxes, terraqueous exhalations and, above all, phlogiston, the substance that was thought to be the active agent in combustion. Somewhere in all this, it was thought, there also resided a mysterious élan vital, the force that brought inanimate objects to life.

Why is it," cried the young woman in obvious chagrin, "everyone believes a plain girl will leap at the first man who wants her?

You see,' Gwyn said slowly...'With an Indian boy maybe you can, you know, explore all that stuff. Go kamasutronic, so to speak.' I nodded, but I was feeling battle fatigue and was now thinking the tip of another thought: Or maybe an Indian boy would get that most of us don't know that stuff. That it was a lot of hype. It was the bindi blondes who were all over this scene, not the holelessly nosed Indian girls.

People tend to react to other people in wholesale rather than in detail, right? He's a minister, so I hate him. She's beautiful, so I like her. One month later you wake up and realize you have nothing in common with the woman.

Christians aren't generally known for their love any more than their neighbors are.

women could never be in the space program, since in zero G a woman's breasts would bounce and keep the men from concentrating.

When will the West understand, or try to understand, the East? We Asiatics are often appalled by the curious web of facts and fancies which has been woven concerning us.

I hate the Muslims who make people hate Muslims, he'd replied quietly.

Everyone always says that guys are intimidated by me, but I seriously doubt it. I mean, I'm five-foot-nothing!

One's enemies are always talking about 'post-feminism.' It is a word invented by people who would like to do away with feminism.

I feel we just assume all fathers who no longer have involvement in their children's lives is through choice. I know, first hand, this is absolutely not the case.

Some people get the wrong idea about what the job of a cricket correspondent involves - it's not all laid-on luxury travel.

Irish people never think we're Irish. Americans think we're European or French.

I find it particularly irritating, if I go to a games conference to speak about my work, that often it's presumed that I'm the marketing girl - that's annoying.