Quotes About Misunderstanding

Did you not understand me? You need me to speak in Ebonics?

Lydia has never really had friends, but their parents have never known.

Sadie eyed him, hands on hips. Bird, she said, with infuriating pity, you don't understand anything, so you?

Sadie eyed him, hands on hips. Bird, she said, with infuriating pity, you don't understand anything, do you?

People decide what you're like before they even get to know you. They think they know all about you. Except, you're never who they think you are.

James looks up to see Stanley Hewitt leaning though. He doesn't like Stan-a florid ham hock of a man who talks to him loudly and slowly, as if he's hard of hearing, who makes stupid jokes that start 'George Washington, Buffalo Bill, and Spiro Agnew walk into a bar…

Five years, a year, even six months earlier, Lydia would have found sympathy in her brother's eyes. I know. I know. Confirmation and consolation in a single blink. This time Nath, immersed in a library book, did not notice Lydia's clenched fingers, the sudden red that rimmed her eyes. Dreaming of his future, he no longer heard all the things she did not say.

I dunno," she said. "People decide what you're like before they even get to know you." She eyed him, suddenly fierce. "Kind of like you did with me. They think they know all about you. Except you're never who they think you are.

Cinderella' from the point of view of the stepsisters. Maybe they weren't so wicked after all. Maybe she was actually a bitch to them.

Mom," she said. "Dad. It's not what you think.

Maybe she was making a mountain out of her mother.

My kids are around pit bulls every day. In the '70s they blamed Dobermans, in the '80s they blamed German Shepherds, in the '90s they blamed the Rottweiler. Now they blame the Pit Bull.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

It is by universal misunderstanding that we agree with each other. If, by some misfortune, we understood each other, we would never agree.

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

Running up out of the surf on to the beach at St. Tropez I thought I was shot. I looked down and saw red all over my uniform. I hollered for the medic and Lieutenant Kavota from Hazelton, Pennsylvania, came running over to me and shouted, "You son of a bitch, that's wine. You ain't shot. Get up and get going. They shot your canteen.

They say good girls like bad boys. Opposites attract. Mary loved me, but her family hated me. They thought I was what they used to call shanty Irish, and I guess they thought they were what they used to call lace-curtain Irish. Or maybe they saw something in me; that as hard as I was trying I was still too unpredictable for their Mary. Mary

Please hear what I'm not saying

The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me. [Charlie Chaplin to Albert Einstein]

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led,They damn those authors whom they never read.

What do you take me for, an idiot

Tongue; well that's a wery good thing when it an't a woman's.

Mr. Cruncher... always spoke of the year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes: apparently under the impression that the Christian era dated from the invention of a popular game, by a lady who had bestowed her name upon it.

Oh, but reasoning is so much worse than scolding!... I didn't marry to be reasoned with. If you meant to reason with such a poor little thing as I am, you ought to have told me so, you cruel boy!