Quotes About Misunderstanding

Sometimes, he would make a villain of her and imagine ways that she had slighted him: that time she had turned away from him; that time she had avoided his eyes. But she hadn't done those things -- it would have been almost better if she had.

We walk to the parking lot, and he says, "Did something happen back there? Did I say something wrong? I thought it was going very well until suddenly it wasn't." I say, "I just don't like you," and I get in my car.

Sam texted her. He was starting to resent the elliptical nature of texting Sadie, the way she could ignore half of what he said and, often, the important half.

When dad says he's going to church, he actually means he's going to a library or a bookstore." - Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac.

I had never been good with words. On the path from my heart to my brain to my mouth, phrases became twisted and hopelessly convoluted. The intent—what I meant to say—never quite made it out.

I know that Marian Wallace was your girlfriend." "That isn't true." "Don't lie! I know that she came here to kill herself in your front yard. I know that she left Maya for you, but you either were too lazy or too much of a coward to claim her.

These guys totally agree that you're smokin' hot but think you're too young-" "That means 'flat-chested'. Excuse me. I have to go somewhere and die of embarrassment

They had been mistaken, it seemed, in seeking other tongues. Languages were not a special capacity, as she had once imagined, but incautious assent to the wrong kinds of meanings. A

Men always look differently at women, even if it's not your intention it is wrongly interpreted as such.

I'm dating a woman now who, evidently, is unaware of it.

I thought you an' I'd already settled the roles in the fucker/fuckee relationship! I guess I thought wrong!

Thomas Hieke puts the matter: "This dramatic narrative dispels the misunderstanding that one can compel God to behave in a certain way through human—or more exactly—ritual action.

It looks hard," said Michael. "Not squishy like poop.

Some family,' I said. 'No one's paying attention to the mother. Who could blame her if she took off? Look at them.' A minute or so went by, and then Mrs. Windermere said, in a voice as soft as summer blue air, 'Skinny Delivery Boy, you have it all wrong. Look how she's standing close to her little one. She's looking around to watch for the next spectacular thing that's going to come into his life.' And I'm not lying, she was right.

It's hard to figure out how a friendship begins, she thought. Maybe sometimes it's because someone you thought you knew - and that you didn't really - turns out to be a whole lot more like a friend than you ever guessed.

I'm not bad, Mr. Valiant. I'm just drawn that way.

I've tried to talk to her a couple of times, but she avoids me.

have had to come to grips with the fact that people have lied and will lie about me; they will rip a few sentences out of context, twist a few passages, and make me sound like I believe something I don't because they need something to be angry about and oppose.

My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

The Scriptwriter is the type of person who asks you a question, answers it himself, then walks away angry at what you said.

Ojalá hubiera otra forma de hacer esto - confesó Han. - Dowwpp - respondió el Wookiee.

They tried to tell us that what happened to them would happen to us, too, but we could not hear the message. Mistook it for nostalgia, when they were speaking prophecy.

One viewer - a Mr. Dionne from California... fired off an angry, rambling letter, complaining haughtily that "the most disciplined attention I could give [The Cube] was a belch from the grave of Marcus Aurelius, occasioned, I might add, by the dead weight of its own dust caving in on itself." Two weeks later came Jim's one-sentence response: Dear Mr. Dionne: What the fuck are you talking about? Yours truly, JIM HENSON

There are certain situations in which you can't convey what you mean. Words don't always work.