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Quotes About Misunderstanding

Somehow there was a lack of communication - She thought he said: "Till debt do us part."
~ Brian Morgan
My wife and I had words - but I never got to use mine.
~ Fibber McGee
There is nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
~ Ivy Compton-Burnett
If I had as many love affairs as I've been given credit for, I'd be in a jar at the Harvard Medical School.
~ Frank Sinatra
I do not judge you. The magistrate sits in your heat that judges you. I never thought you but a good man, John-only somewhat bewildered.
~ Elizabeth Proctor
What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach.
~ Strother Martin
A man goes to the doctor for a check, and the doctor exams him and says I've got bad news, you've got cancer and alzheimers. The man goes Thank god I don't have cancer.
~ Gilbert Gottfried
A dyslexic man walks into a bra.
~ Tommy Cooper
If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?
~ Ken Robinson
I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.
~ Pat Robertson
They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man to reverse first.
~ Terry Pratchett
Men tighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding.
~ T. S. Eliot
What the common man cannot understand he hates.
~ Pearl S. Buck
When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless
~ John Henry Newman
Get me a skinny frappuccino. I have no idea what that is - I would like to think you would be presented with a tiny Italian man.
~ Miranda Hart
I beg your pardon? Robson says. One thing Waterhouse likes about these Brits is that when they don't know what the hell you're talking about, they are at least open to the possibility that it might be their fault.
~ Neal Stephenson
Technically, of course, he was right. Socially, he was annoying us.
~ Neal Stephenson
You bent my words again," says Goto Dengo. "You spoke crooked words and I straightened them
~ Neal Stephenson
He was neither dead nor here, but in Idaho, a state often confused, by bicoastal folks, with Iowa, but that in fact was the anti-Iowa in many respects, a place that Iowans would only go to in order to make some kind of statement.
~ Neal Stephenson
Dr. Harris was now wishing that the late Doc Dubois had never opened his big fat mouth.
~ Neal Stephenson
He did not seem to grasp something that was clear enough to me and Cord: namely, that there were extras who would beat up avout simply because it was more entertaining than not beating them up—not because they subscribed to some ridiculous theory of what we were. He was assuming that rapscallions bothered to have theories.
~ Neal Stephenson
realizes that this is just like life must be for about 99 percent of the people in the world. You're in this place. There's other people all around you, but they don't understand you and you don't understand them, but people do a lot of pointless babbling anyway.
~ Neal Stephenson
Every parent of a teenager gets used to it: the moment in a child's life when he or she decides that certain facts are just too much trouble to explain to Mom or Dad.
~ Neal Stephenson
Daniel kept being cruel to Roger, trying to make him go away, but Roger took it as honesty, implying profound friendship.
~ Neal Stephenson