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Quotes About Misunderstanding

When he says, "Why can't you follow a recipe?" I am hurt, because I know that he is not just asking why I can't be told what to do, but also why I can't let things be simple.
~ Eula Biss
insults were exchanged, but never conversation" (p.17).
~ Evan Thomas
Heal me? You're trying to heal me by rubbing your…by rubbing against me?" Kat didn't even try to keep the skepticism out of her voice. "Yeah, right.
~ Evangeline Anderson
Forgive him, my lady Kat." The blond haired twin, Lock, swept Kat a courtly bow. "As you know, Deep tends to speak without thinking." Sophie looked at Olivia again and mouthed, "My lady?" but again Liv just shrugged. It was clear she was as much in the dark as Sophie. "Come
~ Evangeline Anderson
Angel of Death' is like a history lesson, but as soon as we released it everybody was calling us Nazis. Our singer's a dark-skinned Chilean, there's no way we're fascists.
~ Jeff Hanneman
When 'Nil By Mouth' was released, people thought that's what we were actually like, that they'd put me and Ray in front of the cameras and filmed what came out. No acting involved.
~ Kathy Burke
Rappers have always thought they were better than me. And the media has always thought that I was not relevant to hip-hop, so therefore, they didn't have to mention me.
~ Too Short
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
~ George Bernard Shaw
There's a lot of misunderstanding out there, particularly in the difference between religion and culture. For example, I hear people criticise Islam for arranged marriages, but that's nothing to do with Islam. It is the culture in some places, but it's actually against Islam.
~ Moeen Ali
There is far more misunderstanding of Islam than there is, I think, of the other religions of the world. So many things are said of it by those who do not belong to that faith.
~ Annie Besant
Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
~ John Burroughs
In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
There are some women who have made some really hurting remarks about my relationship with my husband Himanshu Malhotra. They even dared to ask me if I have divorced him just because I don't put my pictures with him too often. Now that is really ridiculous!
~ Amruta Khanvilkar
It is foolish to hold against me remarks that I never made.
~ Nicolas Anelka
Sigmund Freud makes people irritable. Whenever someone mentions Freud, say, at a dinner party, I see eyes roll and listen to the nasty remarks that follow.
~ Siri Hustvedt
Michael and I will always be connected with the kids. I will always be there for him. I will always be there for the children. And people make remarks: 'I can't believe she left her children.' Left them? I left my children? I did not leave my children. My children are with their father, where they are supposed to be.
~ Debbie Rowe
I remember when James Wan and I did the first 'Saw' movie, a lot of people would say to us, 'Well, you left the door open for a sequel.' And we would say, 'No, we literally closed the door!' We thought it was a nice ending. Little did we know that the producers had other ideas once the film was a hit.
~ Leigh Whannell
Darcy, the heroine of 'Something Blue,' is quite shallow and opinionated. At one point, she commented that she dislikes 'gingers,' i.e., men with red hair. I received several emails from fiery redheads who said they were offended by 'my' comments. I had to remind them that it is fiction.
~ Emily Giffin
At my advanced age, I know I am not an anti-Semite, not even vaguely or remotely, but others would seem to know better, as false accusers always do.
~ Michael Leunig
If I try to impress a room-ful of guests by calling my answering service to see if there are any messages, they never understand my name. They think I am saying Kim Barry, and I have to repeat my name over and over.
~ Ken Berry
My husbands all repeatedly said the same thing - that I was not a very passionate woman.
~ Debbie Reynolds
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
~ Ambrose Bierce
The notion people have about me is that I am always angry and irritated. Also, I report late to work and I am not serious about my job. But if all these things were true about me, people wouldn't be working with me.
~ Richa Chadha
Over the course of 20 years that I've been at NBC, I have never seen the amount of money I make reported correctly by the media.
~ Matt Lauer