Quotes About Misunderstanding

Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.

To tell me it's supposed to stop raining, you came up here?" Lusa asked, looking from one sun-toughened face to the other for some clue. It was always like this, anytime she got wedged into a conversation with her brothers-in-law. This sense of having wandered into a country where they spoke English but all the words meant something different.

tell him I am mopping the floor, spelled with a silent As you can plainly see, dumbass. He says he doesn't think that's going to do the job.

Bangala means something precious and dear. But the way he pronounces it, it means the poisonwood tree.

Maggot took credit for that deed so I wouldn't get sent home and skinned alive. Mrs. Peggot pretended to take his word for it, even though she heard the whole thing. Probably everybody has had some golden patch of life like that, where everything was going to be okay thanks to the people that had your back, and sadly you wasted it, by being ticked off over some ignorant thing like a busted TV.

Like the saying goes: They passed out the brains, he thought they said trains and he missed his.

That's when that Grace kicked Lucille in the leg.

When I got home last night my wife demanded that I take her someplace expensive. So I took her to a gas station and then the fight started.

Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity

The quotations that Clement thought of as a second edition, Secret Mark, were in fact, Smith argued, part of the original Gospel of Mark, but were taken out by later scribes. And so the two versions of Mark were not, technically speaking, both produced by him. He wrote the longer version, and it came to be shortened by subsequent scribes who copied his text.13 Clement misunderstood the true relationship of these two versions.

The idea of the rapture has not been taken from the Bible; it has been read into the Bible.

there was no way to control what one person said to the next

Chris: How do you know if a Frenchman has been in your backyard? Teddy: Hey, I'm French, okay? Chris: Your garbage cans are empty and your dog's pregnant. [Chris and Gordie laugh] Teddy: Didn't I just say I was French?

people fear what they do not understand.

She didn't even finish her last sentence; it just trailed off. I think the subject had changed in her head while her mouth had continued on the old topic, not realizing it was out of supplies.

Sure, I've gotten some disbelieving stares when I've tried to explain this little habit of mine to, say, a bus seatmate. I've watched a guy adjust his posture, or get up and move back several rows, even if it meant he now sat next to someone else who was clearly on the verge of some other kind of insanity.

This man, at the beginning, appears to be utterly romantic. In reality, he is often totally unrealistic. He has no idea what it is he really wants, and he has no concept of how his behavior might be interpreted. He is probably somebody with little history of reliability and dependability in other relationships.

In America, we know to ignore artists if they're serious in any way.

There is a difference between correlation and causation - many people mistake one for the other.

They may accuse you of consorting with witches or communists or even economists.

Mientras discutía acerca de su investigación sobre los nombres en un programa de radio, Roland G. Fryer Jr. aceptó una llamada de una mujer negra que se sentía disgustada por el nombre que acababan de dar a su sobrina recién nacida. Se pronunciaba shuh-Teed, pero en realidad se escribía como «Shithead» [tonta, despreciable].

They mistook the smoke for the fire.

In explaining any human shortcoming, the first tool I reach for is Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

A woman gets into a taxi in Boston's Logan airport and asks the driver, 'Can you take me somplace where I can get scrod?' He says, 'Gee, that's the first time I've heard it in the pluperfect subjunctive.