Quotes About Misunderstanding

So, you're English?" Fritz asked. I bristled at the insult.

They only see us when we do something they don't want us to do

I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I said.

If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said. -- Speaking to a Senate Committee in 1987, as quoted in the Guardian Weekly, November 4, 2005.

I know you think you understand what you thought I said , but I'm not sure realized that what you heard isn't what I meant

I know you think you understand what you thought I said , but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard isn't what I meant

I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.

I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.

Her book was filled with centaurs because she had not fully grasped the complexity of actual people, actual horses.

I got confused. I thought it was a K.Y. scare, so I bought 2000 jars of personal lubricant. I still have some.

To all the women that I've offended, I had no intention to be offensive, to violate any physical or emotional space. I was trying to establish personal relationships, but the combination of awkwardness and hubris led to behavior that I think many found offensive.

If you believe all the information out there about millennials you'd have to conclude we had multiple personalities.

People often talk about George Best and Alex Higgins as two similar personalities... but the truth is that Best did not like Alex.

Some persons never attain to the happy art of perspicuous expression, and it is equally true that some persons, thro' a mental defect of their own, will judge the most correct and certain language of others to be indefinite and ambiguous.

It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation.

Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted.

People think anything done from a woman's perspective is only going to appeal to women.

It is always the case that when something emerges - which, of course, from the perspective of the former West Germany looks very different - then people say, 'She hasn't told us this yet' and 'She hasn't told us that yet.' I don't know - maybe there are other things I didn't talk about because no one ever asked me.

People judge us looking from the outside. They don't really know what is going on in my life. There are hundreds of perspectives out there. I cannot live up to all the expectations.

Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.

This disease leaves people bedridden. I've gone through phases where I couldn't roll over in bed. I couldn't speak. To have it called 'fatigue' is a gross misnomer.

Islamophobia is a complex phenomenon.