Quotes About Misunderstanding

There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.

I used to call her, in my stupidity — for want of anything better — a dove

There is no more usual basis of union than a mutual misunderstanding

It's all a mere mistake and a worry and a joke—and we'll go home as fast as we can!

I don't understand you.

She longed for opportunities, but these were not the opportunities she meant.

If you decline to understand me I wholly decline to understand you.

And did your beastly papa, my precious angel, send any message to your own loving mamma?" Then it was that she found the words spoken by her beastly papa to be, after all, in her little bewildered ears, from which, at her mother's appeal, they passed, in her clear shrill voice, straight to her little innocent lips. "He said I was to tell you, from him," she faithfully reported, "that you're a nasty horrid pig!

Then it hasn't been love, said May Bartram. Well, I at least thought it was. I took it for that--I've taken it till now. It was agreeable, it was delightful, it was miserable, he explained.

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.

I can never forget that Chinese student I knew in Paris - Mr. Tcheou, I think it was. One day, upon asking him if he had ever read Hamlet , he answered: You mean that novel by Jack London?

We do not talk, we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.

Las palabras son soledad. Anoche dejé unas palabras para ti sobre el mantel: las tapaste con los codos

Squirrels are blamed for many crimes they are not responsible for, but in this case honesty compels me to say it was the squirrels done it. I saw them.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

My sister Tiffany told me years ago, 'You can never write about me.' Then she called six months ago and said she wanted to be in a story. She was worried people thought I didn't like her.

I was shooting for a Telugu film at the Taj Mahal in Agra, and there were all these women and children pointing and screaming, 'Rowdy Rathore.' But I am not really 'Rowdy Rathore.' I am the guy who did the original version of 'Rowdy Rathore' six years ago.

When greeting Pope Benedict a few years ago, I was meant to kiss the papal ring but I head-butted his hand instead. He just laughed at me.

The best of friends fall out, and so his teeth had done some years ago.

I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene.

I find it baffling that for years and years I got tremendous stick for the amount of money I earned.

Even if I don't always behave as I should, this still doesn't explain why so many people have something against me. But you know how it is. A lot of people vent themselves by coming to the stadium to yell at me. I hope it's not racism. I tell myself that it's not racism; it's because I'm tough, and I repeat this to myself.

If you say I just yell on records, that means you ain't a real fan of me, and I would never even give your comment the time of day.

There's nothing worse than a bunch of toothless, ignorant people yelling at you. It's horrible.