Quotes About Misconceptions

The only reason people lock their car doors when Obama walks by is they are afraid he'll tax them to death...

Everybody thinks I'm at death's door, but I'm not. There's nothing seriously wrong with me, and my heart is in 100 percent working order. Anything else you may hear is a damn lie!

The people are not always well-informed, but is better that they have misconceptions that make them restless than that they be lethargic-for lethargy in the people means death for republics.

If you followed the media you'd think that everybody in Africa was starving to death, and that's not the case; so it's important to engage with the other Africa.

Boys fell for so many things you wouldn't think they'd believe. It was really incredible. None of her friends back home had been quite so stupid.

Perhaps the greatest danger of our global community is that the person in LA thinks he knows Cambodia because he's seen The Killing Fields on-screen, and the newcomer from Cambodia thinks he knows LA because he's seen City of Angels on video.

What you know about Vampires could fit into a mosquito's ass. Eve said. Irritated. All you know is what you grew up seeing on T.V. You ever actually meet one?

Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or boy in your head.

Since neither black animosity nor the Left's falsehood of "racial tensions" is based on the actual behavior of the vast majority of white Americans, nothing white America can do will affect the perceptions of many black Americans or of the leftist libel.

You must," I murmured to myself, and then my knees buckled. Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that the tendency of eighteenth-century ladies to swoon was due to tight stays; now I rather thought it might be due to the idiocy of eighteenth-century men.

I've yet to see the auld woman believes in witches, nor the young one, neither. It's men think there must be ill-wishes and magic in women, when it's only the natural way of the creatures.

You do know that women aren't rational, don't you?" "I do. Neither are men." "Well, you have a point

Echada en el suelo, con los paneles tallados del techo parpadeando tenuemente sobre mí, me encontré pensando que, hasta entonces, siempre había creído que la tendencia a desmayarse de las mujeres del siglo XVIII se debía a los corsés apretados. Pero no, se debía a la estupidez de los hombres de aquel siglo.

How little you know of women, my love," I said.

I think people can't believe I can still walk and talk and get on the stage without assistance.

We don't sing about eating local produce or growing beards or anything like that. It's funny to find yourself in a position where people associate you with things that are completely arbitrary to your songs.

With any show, when fans come up to you, they assume you're just like your character.

People assume that acting is an easy job. When you actually do it, you know how hard that is.

Most of what we know or assume to know is wrong one way or another.

Since I worked with Prince, people assumed that I was black.

I've read in a couple stories that I was raised Episcopalian, but that's not true. I think that's just people assuming things. In some ways, I wish I was raised Episcopalian. I was kind of raised hodgepodge.

I think people make certain assumptions about what they're interested in reading or what others would be interested in reading, and when they think of poor black people in the South, they don't think people are interested in reading about those people.

I came from the NFL, so people didn't like that, or they just try to make assumptions, and I think when you assume, you look stupid.

A lot of the time you have older writers who think that every teenager says 'dude' all the time.