Quotes About Misunderstanding

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

I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.

I think people have a warped sense of who I am.

I am actually a perfectly capable modern man who can cook, clean, wash, and find my way to places, but nobody believes it.

The British claim to have a special relationship with the U.S., but if you mention this in Washington, no one knows what you are talking about.

of love. Yes, that was it: he thought I meant to proposition

Do you and Zach have trouble living together?' 'No. Must be a chick thing.' 'And you're sexist.' 'I'm sexy.

She won't reveal your secret handshake." "It's not my handshake I'm worried about." "Pretend it is.Because as far as I'm concerned,thats all the two of you do. Shake hands.Even if I see you kissing? In my head,I'm going to tell myself that you're shaking hands.

I didn't mean play with you exactly," I said. "I meant…you know, keep you company so you don't feel awkward…you know, like I exercised with you." "I'll be okay alone in the backyard." He stepped off the treadmill. "I'm going to go shower." He waited a heartbeat, like he expected me to say I'd be happy to keep him company in the shower, too. Fortunately, my brain finally kicked in, and I kept my mouth shut.

I didn't realize you were wearing any. That night, anyway. Tonight it's pretty obvious." "Oh." Didn't I feel silly? "I thought--" I shook my head. "Never mind." On second thought… "You don't like all the makeup?" "I just don't think you need it. I mean, you look pretty without it.

Maybe you should tell Sam how you feel about his roommate," Allie said. "Maybe he'd invite Brad to come home with him on the weekends." "Right. Like Sam is going to care. He thinks I'm just his stupid baby sister." "You think he's your stupid older brother, so it all works out," Leah said, backing up a little to inspect the snowman's abs.

What are you doing here?" "My dad called and--what the hell is that?" He pointed to the cleaver. I angled my chin. "I was in the middle of cutting my peanut butter and jelly sandwich." "With a meat cleaver?" "It's quick and makes a perfectly straight cut." He grinned. "Yeah, right. You've obviously watched too many movies. Who'd you think I was? Freddy Krueger?

And here I arrive at my point. The point is that everyone has a different dream. The point is that it is a grave mistake to assume your dream is in any way shared, that it's a common dream. Not only is it not shared, not common, there is no reason to assume that other people don't find you and your dream utterly revolting.

Isn't that what intimacy so often is? Supposing you understand, conveying that you do, because you feel in theory that you could understand, and you want to, and yet secretly you don't?

I tried to explain this to Nadine, but she kept interrupting me.

Fame is, after all, only the sum of all the misunderstandings that gather around a new name.

Fame — the aggregate of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new name.

You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.

More often than not, a report that a cow was about to be slaughtered, or that a religious procession carrying Hindu idols was interfering with mosque prayers, set off stone-throwing or worse.

Many in the world picture a threat from what they see as a monolithic Muslim world, when in fact that world is sharply divided.

I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied

Some people confuse the respect that has been earned by fear with the respect earned by love. They are not the same.

there is a misconception that Vatican II endorsed a less than faith-filled approach to Scripture. This is certainly not the case.

We die of words. We are hanged, drawn and quartered by dictionaries. We walk in the vale of shadows. It is an age of hobgoblins.