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Quotes About Misunderstanding

One time I went to a hotel. I asked the bellhop to handle my bag. He felt up my wife!
~ Rodney Dangerfield
I know he (Albert Belle) hates me. If he needs that hate to succeed, it's fine by me. I always liked him. He was a good kid. He just had a hard time with the pressure.
~ Skip Bertman
Teamwork is wasting half of one's time explaining to others why they are wrong.
~ Georges Wolinski
For years the league has thought I've been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.
~ Dennis Rodman
But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all.
~ Robert Harris
When I was a kid, everybody in the neighborhood picked me to be the one in jail or be in the cemetery by the time I was 20.
~ Bo Jackson
The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he's asleep.
~ Chuck Jones
That's like the fourth time I've been called a women in this past hour. It's really starting to boost my self-esteem.
~ Drew Chadwick
I said to a girl I'd been seeing, come home with me, honey, and I'll show you where it's at. She said, You'd better, because the last time I could'nt find it.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
I like southern girls. They talk so slow that by the time they say no, I made it already.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.
~ Toni Morrison
The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.
~ Vince Gill
At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other.
~ William Adams
If at one time or another I have brushed a few colleagues the wrong way, I must apologize: I had not realized that they were covered with fur.
~ Erwin Chargaff
Happens to me all the time...People are always underestimating my dumbness.
~ Janet Evanovich
I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.
~ Vivienne Westwood
you know... there is a name for people who are always wrong about everything all the time.... husband!!!
~ Bill Maher
One of the things I have come up against time and again in my career is the notion that because a book is easy to read it was somehow easy to write.
~ Matthew Reilly
Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. . . . Time will reverse the judgement of the vulgar.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
The children never connect me with the man onstage when I come out the stage door. The parents spend all their time trying to convince them that I'm Caractacus.
~ Raul Esparza
And Nedley started saying,'Shut Up!Quit that! And i knew it really meant something to him. So I asked for his help,Mark said. Don't tell the story like that, Nedley laughed. What he said was 'Quit pretendin you're a bad guy I need your help, and I need it now!
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
You are very wise, Tanis Half-Elven. But this time you are wrong," she said to herself as she stood alone on her porch. "Lady Crysania isn't mad. She's in love.
~ Margaret Weis
How dare you accuse me of your own failings?" Laurana returned. "I love Elistan. I reverence him.
~ Margaret Weis
You cannot believe the loneliness', he said at last, so softly that Orla was forced to move closer to him to hear. 'The mensch are so very, very lonely. The only means they have of communicating are physical. They must rely on words or a look or a gesture to describe what they feel, and their languages are so limited. Most of the time, they are unable to express what they truly mean, and so they live their lives and die without ever knowing the truth, about themselves or others.
~ Margaret Weis