Quotes About Misunderstanding

Sarcasm doesn't translate in print at all.

Every once in a while, friends leave sarcastic comments on photos. I know they're joking, but the sarcastic humor doesn't always translate well when I am sitting behind my screen reading it. In person, it's easier to play it off as a joke, but online, it can come across as offensive.

It can bum you out when your intentions aren't, like, translated properly.

Translation is the art of failure.

I have some English words on the first album, but any time I try to do it, you miss something. You think it's just a simple translation from French to English, but it's so different as far as the understanding.

I've always loved cuneiform; I've always loved the way it looks. I love that it's the world's oldest script. And the creative potential of bad translation or misunderstanding or something has always been at the core of the idea of 'Dirty Projectors.' So the cuneiform is pretty playful - basically, just a joke.

The fact that I stick up for women doesn't mean that I think all men are rapists. But that's lost somewhere in translation. Obviously I don't think that. I married one! I gave birth to two of them.

The only problem was that I couldn't communicate with Dario. He speaks Italian and I don't. We had a translator the whole time. I just felt that something was lost with the go between. He was a delightful man, but I wish we could have spoken the same language.

I'm not who you think i am. If you love me, you love me for the wrong reasons.

I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.

Ništa ne objašnjavaj, kažem sama sebi, ljudi te ionako ne?e razumjeti, bilo zato što su glupi, bolo zato što im nije stalo, naj?eš?e ovo drugo.

That song is a story that shows how easily you could get slipped into being labeled as the bad guy, even though what you really trying to do is tell the bad guy to leave you alone.

I drank what?

My parents are great listeners Which is why I never tell them anything

One of the risks of being quiet is that the other people can fill your silence with their own interpretation: You're bored. You're depressed. You're shy. You're stuck up. You're judgemental. When others can't read us, they write their own story—not always one we choose or that's true to who we are.

One of the risks of being quiet is that other people can fill your silence with their own interpretations: You're bored. You're depressed. You're shy. You're stuck-up. You're judgemental. You have nothing to say.

One of the risks of being quiet is that the other people can fill your silence with their own interpretation: You're bored. You're depressed. You're shy. You're stuck up. You're judgmental. When others can't read us, they write their own story—not always one we choose or that's true to who we are.

One of the risks of being quiet is that other people can fill your silence with their own interpretations: You're bored. You're depressed. You're shy. You're stuck-up. You're judgmental. You have nothing to say.

If you are rejected by someone who doesn't really know you, then you are not being rejected for who you are. You are only being rejected for who that person thinks you are.

How sorry he was if anything he'd done had created the impression that he might be a killer.

It's funny that sometimes you can only describe something with perfect accuracy by being wildly inaccurate.

It's easier for parents to ignore, to pretend that everything's great and then do whatever they want while convinced it's something you want, too.

God, this is why I can never live with women. They go off into corners and think, maybe it's this, maybe it's that. Ask, woman. Ask.

What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?