Quotes About Misunderstanding

Logic has made me hated in the world.

I was being called a shock comic. I hated that. It's so cheap and stupid.

People look at me and go, 'He's only successful because he's got a bunch of 16-year-old girls at his back who don't understand comedy.' Well, they do. In any case, no one hates me more than I do; no one's more self-conscious about that than I am.

Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'

Yes, it's true that the way I play is very heavy and I understand the hatred that people who do not know me can have me to me.

There are the guys that wear the white hats and they're painting the picture of someone to wear the black hat and they chose me - even though they don't really know me.

It never happens in Europe, and I'm not sure how often it happens here in Australia, but in Hawaii and all over the United States nobody knows what a fast lane is.

Because I'm my parents' daughter, and get attention from things I've done in the past, that probably goes over people's heads.

I think people have an idea of what Fox News is. If people don't watch Fox News, then it's just a caricature, it's not real, they have it in their heads that it's something very different than what it actually is.

I don't believe anyone wants to hear what I have to say.

Don't you hear people saying things you can't believe they're saying?

It's funny, I hear people say I'm faking all this science stuff. That's the furthest thing from the truth. It's literally what I have to do to play and perform at this level.

When an American person hears you speak a different language, you're automatically the bad guy.

I think it's heartbreaking when your kids go public and make accusations that aren't true, you know, not just about me as a parent, but also about my relationship.

'Self-deport?' What the heck does that mean?

Most people think of 'Wuthering Heights' as romantic; it's really not about that at all.

If you listen to the way I speak and watch the way I conduct myself - there's nothing about me that's rock n' roll. It's like, 'Hello, I'm in a rock n' roll band'. 'No, you're a narc.'

I speak a little bit of French and German, but apparently, I'm really bad at Dutch. The pronunciations are quite hard. I tried to say 'hello' in Dutch, and it did not work. People were just like, 'What?'

Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.

The French aren't known for being hilarious. When I told Parisians I was interested in French humor, they'd say 'French what?'

We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else.

You are right. Curdie is much farther on than Lootie, and you will see what will come of it. But in the meantime you must be content, I say, to be misunderstood for a while. We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary.' 'What is that, grandmother?' 'To understand other people.' 'Yes, grandmother. I must be fair - for if I'm not fair to other people, I'm not worth being understood myself. I see.

alas, how little can language say without seeming to say something wrong!

To the honest soul it is a comfort to believe that the truth will one day be known, that it will cease to be supposed that he was and did as dull heads and hearts reported of him. Still more satisfactory will be the unveiling where a man is misunderstood by those who ought to know him better—who, not even understanding the point at issue, take it for granted he is about to do the wrong thing, while he is crying for courage to heed neither himself nor his friends, but only the Lord.