Quotes About Misunderstanding

Platonic love is platonic nonsense.

Two people who think they're in love can find out, when left alone, exactly how little they know about each other.

When late I attempted your pity to move, Why seemed you so deaf to my prayers? Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love But-why did you kick me downstairs?

When it comes to love, too many people are out to lunch.

I always come across sounding like I hate my children. I actually love them very much.

When you're young it's easy to confuse passion for love.

Love is such a confusing word. You think I'm joking but I'm not.

have had the best intentions?' Leonora gave him a cold look. 'He said one of the reasons for marrying me

Did Gracie call me? She sure did. She wants you to meet her at Darys' to talk about the party. And she didn't sound as if she was looking for a giggle-and-gossip session, either. She sounded M-A-D! He grinned at her over his book. Need a bodyguard? My rates are reasonable.

Nothing infuriated Ramona more than having a grown-up say, as if she could not hear, that she was worn out.

My reading, secluded in my room with the door shut, annoyed Mother. She constantly talked to me through the door and accused me of being snooty. I was not snooty. I was confused and unhappy, and wanted time to think without Mother telling me what to think.

The world, Ramona decided, was full of people who used their dictionary skills and probably weren't any fun. Then

She didn't have to go and tell that, thought Ramona, feeling that her mother had betrayed her by telling, as if it were funny, something she had done a long time ago.

She tried to make up for speaking so disagreeably by stroking him, but Clawed merely turned his head long enough to give her a look that said, You are not my friend.

Then she decided her mother had not really guessed because she often asked where the fire was when Ramona was in a hurry.

Ramona, who did not mean to pester her mother, could not see why grown-ups had to be so slow.

The history of epilepsy can be summarised as 4,000 years of ignorance, superstition and stigma followed by 100 years of knowledge, superstition and stigma.

Nothing, however, bemused the Indians more than the European habit of blowing their noses into a fine handkerchief, folding it carefully, and placing it back in their pockets as if it were a treasured memento.

To be fair, English is full of booby traps for the unwary foreigner. Any language where the unassuming word fly signifies an annoying insect, a means of travel, and a critical part of a gentleman's apparel is clearly asking to be mangled.

So what is your star sign?' Said Mary Ellen 'Cunnilingus' Katz answered looking profoundly unhappy.

The complexities of the English language are such that even native speakers cannot always communicate effectively, as almost every American learns on his first day in Britain.

The 1905 draft of a treaty between Russia and Japan, written in both French and English, treated the English control and French contrôler as synonyms when in fact the English form means "to dominate or hold power" while the French means simply "to inspect." The treaty nearly fell apart as a result. The

Returning to my book, I learned that Sarah Palin thought Africa was a country. It was a wonderful evening.

Sometimes these differences in meaning take on a kind of bewildering circularity. A tramp in Britain is a bum in America, while a bum in Britain is a fanny in America, while a fanny in Britain is—well, we've covered that. To a foreigner it must seem sometimes as if we are being intentionally contrary.