Quotes About Misunderstanding

A man is talking on the phone in Cantonese, which means that he is, in fact, shouting.

right" is a term you use to designate something with which you agree. What you've missed will, therefore, appear at first to be "wrong.

Words are really the least effective communicator. They are most open to misinterpretation, most often misunderstood.

My one friend is a screwup—a genius blessed with the most beautiful girl in the world, and he doesn't even know it.

We simply organized the information differently—that's all we did. And the New York Times was making a federal case out of it.

It is possibly worth mentioning at this point that Mr. Young thought that paparazzi was a kind of Italian linoleum.

OSCAR. ( With a pointing finger. ) I'm warning you. You want to live here, I don't want to see you, I don't want to hear you and I don't want to smell your cooking. Now get this spaghetti off my poker table. FELIX. Ha! Haha! OSCAR. What the hell's so funny? FELIX. It's not spaghetti. It's linguini! (OSCAR picks up the plate of linguini, crosses to the doorway, and hurls it into the kitchen. ) OSCAR. Now it's garbage!

They know you and George are coming to get us," her mother said. George doesn't want you to come and live with us. "They think we're rich." I can't get pregnant.

No, certainly he didn't. Not actually. He couldn't, not very well, since he didn't know. But he would have. It amounts to the same thing. And I'm sure it was just as unpleasant.

No, you're not getting it. You see… never mind. Listen, I want you to get a headache at nine-forty-five." "You're giving me a headache now." She added, "And why do I always have to get a headache? People are beginning to think I have a terminal disease. Why don't you say your hemorrhoids are acting up at nine-forty-five?

Hi, I'm John. What's your name again? Another Abdul. At some point in the round-robin I got confused and greeted Zamo.

Tom Walsh doesn't exactly talk down to people, but there's a thin line between him stating the obvious and him thinking he's giving you new information.

Ironically, he'd yet to leave a good impression. First he'd spilled soda on her, next she'd seen him almost involved in a riot, and then this morning she'd believed him to be either lazy or an idiot.

It took me a long time to realize that distance can ruin even the best of intentions.

Based on her experience with men, most assumed that when you talked to them about a problem or dilemma, they were expected to offer an opinion, even when all you wants was for them to listen.

Like her father, he wasn't comfortable sharing his thoughts and feelings. She tried to explain that she needed to be closer to him, but it had never seemed to make a difference.

Nana glanced at Ben. I think your mom has catepillars in her ears. She keeps repeating everything I say like she can't hear me.

I think your mom has caterpillars in her ears. She keeps repeating everything I say like she can't hear me.

Thrown under the bus by my own kids. I just can't believe it." "I wouldn't throw you under the bus, Daddy," Kristen said seriously. "Thank you, sweetie.

He's just… immature. He thinks every woman he meets is crazy for him, gets angry at little things, and blames other people when things go wrong.

But then again, he hadn't really been looking, had he? Both Valarie and Lori claimed that there was something inside of him they were unable to reach, something about the way he viewed himself that neither of them could really understand. An though he knew they meant well, their attempts to talk to him about this distance of his didn't – or couldn't – change anything.

When you say 'comic book' in America, people think of Mickey Mouse, and Archie. It has a connotation of juvenile.

I hate when people don't hear the actual words out of your mouth or even the intent of it. They just hear something completely different.

I've heard people have written books of me. People don't even know me, but they've written a book on me. You ever heard of hearing it from the horse's mouth? I'm the horse.