Quotes About Misunderstanding

I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic.

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.

Did i say something wrong?" "Well, in your defense, there is no right thing to say.

I'm sorry." I know it's the universal default, but the problem is, one's first knee-jerk response when someone says "I'm sorry" is to say "It's okay." We are programmed from kindergarten, from the first time the inevitable snot-nosed kid knocks over our blocks, to forgive. And it's not okay, it's as far from okay as it can really get, but there you are, tricked by a sociolinguistic tic into affirming that it is.

The cop looks annoyed, like we're giving him a headache. I want to explain everything to him, show him that it's really not as screwed up as it all sounds, but then I remember that it is.

It is possible that you have misinterpreted the situation entirely, for reasons of which you remain fundamentally unconscious.

Most of my Spanish vocabulary consists of phrases like I didn't know that car was stolen, or I was home watching TV during the shooting, or That's not blood, it's molé sauce.

Don't talk about percentages of numbers when the numbers might be negative.

Hay palabras que después de ser escritas ya no valen. Hay palabras que después de ser dichas no han sido oídas. Hay palabras que después de ser escuchadas lloran. Palabras. Sólo palabras. Todas las inocencias están huérfanas de palabras.

El sordo siempre cree que los que bailan están locos.

People believe that madness is when you don't think as they do, which is why they take me for a madman.

Ang mga henyong ipinapalagay ng mga karaniwang tao na nauna sa kanilang panahon ay nagmistulang gayon sapagkat tinatanaw ng mga humahatol mula sa malayo o napagkakamalang isang buong siglo ang buntot na tinatahak ng mga naiwanan.

People believe that madness is when you don't think as they do, which is why they take me for a madman." -Old Tasio

The great threat we pose to each other is a fruit of our sublime ability to generalize.

Were all the vexations of life put together, we should find that a great part of them proceed from those calumnies and reproaches we spread abroad concerning one another.

This is a word that is a pitfall to the most of us whether learned or unlearned. Probably it is the most indiscriminately used word in the language.

Ms. Heller," said the man, "if you can hear me, say something, will you?" "What do you want, I'm shouting!" Lauren said at the top of her voice. "Now I see it," one of the female voices said. "Like she's trying to talk. I don't know what she said." "I think she said 'Ow.

The ignorant Looker-on can't imagine what the Limner means by those seemingly rude Lines and Scrawls, which he intends for the Rudiments of a Picture, and the Figures of Mathematick Operation are Nonsense, and Dashes at a Venture, to one uninstructed in Mechanicks. We are in the Dark to one another's Purposes and Intendments; and there are a thousand Intrigues in our little Matters, which will not presently confess their Design, even to sagacious Inquisitors

I told myself all that's wrong with us is misunderstanding. That's not good, but it's not the worst. The worst is not having anyone to have a misunderstanding with.

Most Canadians don't understand the House of Commons. They turn on their televisions, see us yelling at one another, and dismiss us as a bunch of fools.

A man always hears the first time," Julie said, smiling at us, "but he makes you tell him twice. Especially if he's your husband. Men have their tricks. Don't ever think they don't.

Hi. Thx for this. No idea. Sorry. L——, Your inquiry defeats me grammatically. Cheers.

The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

Tree: My name is Tree. I didn't mean to tease. I didn't realize it would upset you. Violetpaw: My name is Violetpaw. Tree: That's a pretty name. Violetpaw: Don't start flirting again! Tree: I'm not. It's just a pretty name. Most cats I meet are named Rocky or Snake or something dumb like that. My name's Tree.