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Quotes About Misunderstanding

It seemed that, after contact with a few human generations, sand hogs would begin to understand human speech. The irony was that after coming to understand their riders fully, the beasts often ended up abandoning them and heading off into the wilderness.
~ Neal Asher
You see demons in the eyes of the world, and the world sees a bottomless pit in yours.
~ Neal Shusterman
They all think medicine should be magic, and they become mad at me when it's not.
~ Neal Shusterman
facts never prevent the ignorant from jerking their knees into the groin of science.
~ Neal Shusterman
You see demons in the eyes of the world, and the world sees bottomless pit in yours.
~ Neal Shusterman
I must be doing something right if the crazies think I'm as powerful as the Antichrist.
~ Neal Shusterman
That's legally blind, I'm not legally blind Yes, she's illegally blind
~ Neal Shusterman
She sighed, knowing she couldn't push it any further. Thank you for being so... merciful, Allie said. But I would appreciate it if Pea-brain here would keep his hands off me. That's Pinhead, corrected the boy. Pea-brain works in the engine room.
~ Neal Shusterman
Me prometiste contener ese genio! -Te equivocas: tú me lo pediste, y yo me negué.
~ Neal Shusterman
You seemed to be awfully friendly with one of the party boys. Should I invite more of them for you next time?" "No, no, it's nothing like that," said Rowan, blushing in spite of himself. "He's just a friend from home.
~ Neal Shusterman
Mr. Akron," says a girl, fourteen or so—he can't get over the fact that so many of the kids, particularly the younger ones, are not only ridiculously respectful, but think that Akron is somehow part of his name—
~ Neal Shusterman
How difficult it is to understand each other, my dear angel, and how much thought is incommunicable, even between people who love each other!
~ Charles Baudelaire
So you see how difficult it is to understand one another, my dear angel, how incommunicable thought is, even between two people in love.
~ Charles Baudelaire
C'est par le malentendu universel que tout le monde s'accorde.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Maailma toimii vain väärinymmärryksen ansiosta. Yleisen väärinymmärryksen seurauksena kaikki näet ovat yhtä mieltä. Sillä jos ihmiset onnettomuudekseen ymmärtäisivät toisiaan, he eivät voisi olla yhtä mieltä mistään.
~ Charles Baudelaire
they thought I had guts they were wrong I was only frightened of more important things
~ Charles Bukowski
and now sometimes I'm interviewed, they want to hear about life and literature and I get drunk and hold up my cross-eyed, shot, runover de-tailed cat and I say,look, look at this! but they don't understand, they say something like,you say you've been influenced by Celine? no, I hold the cat up,by what happens, by things like this, by this, by this!
~ Charles Bukowski
Van Gogh cut off his ear gave it to a prostitute who flung it away in extreme disgust. Van, whores don't want ears they want money. I guess that's why you were such a great painter: you didn't understand much else.
~ Charles Bukowski
Hank, I can't stand it! You can't stand what, baby? The situation. What situation, babe? Me working and you laying around. All the neighbors think I am supporting you. Hell, I worked and you laid around. That's different. You're a man, I'm a woman. Oh, I didn't know that. I thought you bitches were always screaming for equal rights?
~ Charles Bukowski
tu figlio di puttana, disse lei, sto cercando di costruire una relazione che abbia senso. non puoi costruirla con un martello, disse lui
~ Charles Bukowski
Sometimes a phone made me think of an elephant turd. You know, all the shit you hear. A phone is a phone but what comes through it is another matter.
~ Charles Bukowski
estoy seguro de que he hecho cantidad de cosas por tí que ni siquiera recuerdas, aún así, nunca te caí especialmente bien.
~ Charles Bukowski
Oh, I didn't know that. I thought you bitches were always screaming for equal rights?
~ Charles Bukowski
I'm going to call the police!" Cindy said. "Hold it," I said, "I can explain everything!" "It better be good," said Cindy. "It better," said Celine. I couldn't think of anything. I just stood there.
~ Charles Bukowski