Quotes About Misunderstanding

I didn't ask for twenty quarter-pound cheeseburgers, I asked for four quarter-pound cheeseburgers five times." "Same thing," he said. "It's not the same thing at all. You can't be this stupid." Two

Goodness knows what this is meant to suggest—I suppose that this is some sort of Hall of the People—but the effect is that it looks as if two dozen citizens of various ages are about to commit mass suicide.

I have been mistaken many times for Jane Torvill, on the ice and off.

Mispronouncing "buoy." The thing that floats in a navigation channel is not a "boo-ee." It's a "boy." Think about it. Would you call something that floats "boo-ee-ant"? Also, in a similar vein, pronouncing Brett Favre's last name as if the "r" comes before the "v." It doesn't, so stop it. Hotel

Yucatán in Mexico means "What?" or "What are you saying?"—the reply given by the natives to the first Spanish conquistadors to fetch up on their shores. The

So what's your sign?' said Mary Ellen. 'Cunnilingus,' Katz answered and looks profoundly unhappy. She looked at him. 'I don't know that one.' She made an I'll-be-darned frown and said, 'I thought I knew them all. Mine's Libra.' She turned to me. 'What's yours?' 'I don't know.' I tried to think of something. 'Necrophilia.

The Internet is like Hitler they think they are getting rid of the problem but they're not

you know... there is a name for people who are always wrong about everything all the time.... husband!!!

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding.

Everybody got it wrong. I said I was into porn again, not born again.

If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world; this is evident from the quarrels caused by occasional indiscreet disclosures.

I failed to communicate, that's why I chose to leave

my father was the best man in the world and probably worth a hundred of me, but he didn't understand me. The town he lived in and the town I lived in were not the same.

Well...you know, you can influence all kinds of people, but sometimes it gets in the way -- especially if somebody is accusing you of influencing somebody that you had no interest in influencing in the first place.

Then she says, You don't read women authors do ya? At least that's what I think I hear her say. Well, I said, how would you know and what would it matter anyway. Well, she says you just don't seem like you do. I said you're way wrong. She says which ones have you read then. I say I've read Erica Jong.

He wanted to know if the master sergeant had read Auden, the twentieth century's most influential Christian poet, English majors in the army, not many of them, not many of us, am I right, Top. Burnette, nonplussed, wondered if he should mention Eliot or the eccentric religious impulses of JD Salinger, but instead mumbled the only line he could recall from Auden's work, We must love one another or die. Bingo, said the colonel. Son of a bitch had the wrong conjunction.

I know what a bar is, you nonce.

It doesn't matter. In their minds we are an extension of Europe. Everything the West is, whether it's Europe or America, is connected. Seven minutes or seven centuries ago, it's all the same to them. They paint us with the same brush. It's frustrating as hell, but these people just don't think the way we do. - Jack Rutledge

Late in the afternoon we returned to the First Vestibule. Just before we parted Raphael said, 'I love the quiet here. No people!' She said the last part as if it were the greatest advantage of all. 'Don't you like the people in your own Halls?' I asked, puzzled. 'I like them,' she said, with no very great enthusiasm. 'Mostly I like them. Some of them. I don't always get them. They don't always get me.

It might well appear to Sir Walter that there had been no quarrel. It was often the case that gentlemen did not observe the signs.

People ask, How did you get in there? What they really want to know is if they are likely to end up in there as well. I can't answer the real question. All I can tell them is, It's easy.

Confuse was the nurses' word for abuse.

mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two