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Quotes About Misconceptions

I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true.
~ Krista Allen
Marriage is like calculus. Complicated and inexplicably remote. People think it's about loving one another and riding off into the sunset, but no one tells you the horse is lame or that it's an eclipse, and there won't be a sunset that day.
~ Kristin Billerbeck
Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.
~ Carla Gugino
Pur non potendo fornire cifre precise al riguardo, possiamo affermare che nel 1347 c'erano in Europa occidentale molti più ratti e più pulci di quanto comunemente si crede.
~ Carlo M. Cipolla
A: Mahal? Ano'ng alam mo sa pagmamahal?! Isa lang ang hinahanap ninyo sa mga lalaki 'di ba? Basta mapuno lang 'yan mga bibig ninyo, masaya na kayo! B: Huhuhuhu! Hindi totoo 'yan, Lester! Mahal talaga kita! Hindi ka naman gan'on kalaki para mapuno ang bibig ko, maniwala ka, Lester! Huhuhu!
~ Carlo Vergara
The reason why people think stereotypes exist is because they don't take the time to get to know each other and jump to conclusions about a person's personality out of laziness.
~ Carlton Mellick III
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.
~ Carmen Electra
The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.
~ Caroline Kennedy
A cheerleader? Do I look like a guy who'd be interested in talking to a cheerleader?
~ Carrie Jones
The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.
~ George Henry Lewes
Such a fierce little thing she is, they say, she has no need of comfort. They are wrong in that, I fear. All men need comfort.
~ George R.R. Martin
Although we cannot rid ourselves of misconceptions, we can correct them when we become aware of them.
~ George Soros
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. - Will Rogers The
~ Gerald M. Weinberg
They say tall people live a lot longer than short people. No they don't. They're just so irritating it seems they are around a lot longer.
~ Margaret Smith
Just because you're beautiful, they think you can't act.... I've got a lot more to prove.
~ Carol Alt
Guys think that if a girl is pretty, she's automatically going to say no. Most of the guy's I've gone out with, I've had to make it completely obvious that I'd like them to ask me out. Or, I've had to ask them.
~ Brooke Shields
A lot of the general population are wrong.
~ J.D. Robb
When you're twins, everyone's always looking for differences. The ones they see are usually wrong.
~ Jason McCourty
I thought if I had a Twitter feed and say I had a following of a 100,000, that means 100,000 of them would be interested in my book. It was logical, but it didn't turn out to be true. It turned out if I had a Twitter feed of a 100,000, four of them were interested in my book.
~ Steve Martin
Stuff about me dating Kim Kardashian - I have no idea where that came from and all these other rumors. I don't think I'm that type.
~ Jeremy Lin
Obviously, there's so many different types of gay people, but some people don't know that. Some people think we all look and act a certain type of way.
~ Kristian Nairn
Most Americans think that the typical low - income family lives in public housing or gets housing assistance. The opposite is true.
~ Matthew Desmond
I am President of Coeliac UK, and apart from supporting Stand Up to Cancer, I want to raise awareness about coeliac disease. It's an autoimmune disease - people often think it's an allergy - and it can affect you very seriously.
~ Caroline Quentin
Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.
~ Gabrielle Union