Quotes About Misunderstanding

I think—I think," she began hesitantly, "that I've always been lonely where women were concerned. It isn't just my working that makes Atlanta ladies dislike me. They just don't like me anyway. No woman ever really liked me, except Mother. Even my sisters. I don't know why, but even before the war, even before I married Charlie, ladies didn't seem to approve of anything I did—

A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.

He (Branch Rickey) must think I went to the Massachesetts Constitution of Technology.

Magic--that's just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn't so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic.

I didn't realize how good I was with technology until I met my parents... my dad told me "You're good; you should be a computer programmer." I said, "You're bad... you should be a caveman."

Don't waste your time explaining who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.

People tend to try to find something to talk about Zuma. My surname is very nice and simple. Very simple, so they like pronouncing it all the time. So what's the problem?

Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.

The doctor must have put my pacemaker in wrong. Every time my husband kisses me, the garage door goes up.

I've known for a long time that they're a bunch of idiots.

Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.

By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!

And to me, I had come out of Texas, and during that time was when I realized that a lot of people in Nashville, their idea of what country music was was not the same as mine.

One time we played a concert in Antwerp, Belgium. At least I thought it was Antwerp, Belgium. Turns out it was a Stop 'n Shop in Wisconsin somewhere, but it was fun man.

I'm not doing my job if people are like, "What you do is fake." And literally people on the street are confused, generally, for the first time.

Bye-bye, Elan. P.S., Next time you implicate someone falsely, try to pick a pacifist.

It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all the time be looked upon by most of those to whom our lives are devoted as having some sinister object in view.

My father gave me a bat for Christmas. The first time I tried to play with it, it flew away.

Having loved the Stones all the time I was growing up, I wasn't about to see them go and split up. It got very close to it in the 80s, when Mick thought that Keith hated him and vice versa.

Every time that I have ever tried to help a woman out, I have been incarcerated.

felt that he just wanted somebody to keep a house clean for him and do the shopping and the cooking. He was always in the garage with his cars, working on them, doing something. All he wanted was food and sex, and that was it. Any time we did talk, it would end up in arguments.

All the things we don't say, all the words we swallow, and it makes nothing but trouble.

But the truth is I didn't really think she had it in her. And being so wrong about her makes me wonder now how often I am utterly wrong about myself. And how wrong she might have been about her mother, how wrong he might have been about his father, how much of family life is a vast web of misunderstandings, a tinted and touched-up family portrait, an accurate representation of fact that leaves out only the essential truth.

Obviously I was mistaken.