Quotes About Misleading

Ahh! They're all just pins!

When you see Robert Englund in a movie, you think he is the bad guy, but if I'm not the bad guy, and I'm supposed to just kind of fool the audience, it makes it a lot easier for whichever actor is the bad guy. So I find myself doing a lot of those, I think they're called red herring characters, faking out the audience.

The beauty here was luring but deceptive.

Well, I'm warning you. I could be a bad book with a good jacket.

Yo podría ser un mal libro con una cubierta bonita [...]. —Nada de eso. Llevo años viéndote en la estantería. He leído la sinopsis y las citas de la contraportada.

A "balanced life" is a myth—a misleading concept most accept as a worthy and attainable goal without ever stopping to truly consider it.

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.

Appearances can be deceptive. Just because someone has a generous chest and a romantic nature doesn't mean they're EASY.

Placed is but the lying cognate of dumped .

Nothing in the reporting of a nation's history could so mislead the younger generation as to represent great events in such a way that they appear to have happened as a matter of course.

Nothing is more misleading to the youth of a nation than to state the outcome immediately after the beginning as if nothing could have taken place in between.

Stay away from national polls. They are always an illusion. They will always trick you into stupid political behavior.

The fast-food industry is in very good company with the lead industry and the tobacco industry in how it tries to mislead the public, and how aggressively it goes after anybody who criticizes its business practices.

For many decades, Whitehall has deceived itself and deceived the public about the true nature of the E.U. project.

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

Adults end up shading things and shading the truth, and you end up lying and telling people what they want to hear.

Brother, you look unwell.' Appearances deceive, Greyfrog. For example, you have never looked prettier.

Electrons and photons are still worse. In graduate school I roomed for a time with a particle physicist. He ended one attempt to explain the essence of an exciting lecture by admitting, with uncommon candor, that he could think of no explanation, not even an analogy, that wasn't unacceptably misleading.

I went down to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, 'Hey, the sign says you're open 24 hours. He said, 'Yes, but not in a row.

Part of the problem is that if anybody has a gut reaction about an issue, they can go online and have it backed up. That said, they can also find support for their ideas in the mainstream media - because when the mainstream media gives a so-called balanced view, it's often misleading.

The president's claim that Social Security is going broke is misleading at best. The sky is not falling, although there is no doubt that the system needs to be strengthened.

do not be misled by expert bravado or by an expert's own sense of how he or she is doing. Evidence is a much better guide than an impressive self-presentation.

I know where that distrust comes from. He grins. When I was little, my mom gave me a cookie. The raisins were made to look like chocolate chips. That's when my trust issues started.

And though there's a grain of truth in every rumor, I've found that the worst gossip usually starts with something harmless.