Quotes About Misunderstanding

Not my finest hour," he says, shaking his head. "You realize you did it for no reason," I say. I tell him about talking to my dad and explain that I was crying because of that. "That information would have been useful BEFORE I shoved him in the pool.

What she didn't know, what she took for granted about living with Karl and being a wife, was far larger than the things she could name.

They don't say what they mean." "No one says what they mean." "No one says what they mean all the time. Most people say what they mean sometimes. Usually." "Teenagers done know what they mean.

This had always pissed him off about Romeo and Juliet, its ending platitude that at least the feud was laid to rest and the fighting families had come together as if this somehow made it worth losing their teenagers. As if Romeo and Juliet would have been willing to die just so their parents would get along.

I like labels because they mean organized and order and control and correct." "Sometimes they do. And sometimes they just give you the illusion of those things. Giving something a label and putting it in a box makes you feel like you've understood it and accounted for it and can keep track of it, and that's great for things like paperwork or books, but sometimes things get mislabeled or misfiled, and then they get misunderstood or misaccounted for.

I get mad when you walk away (don't walk away from me cmon now), so I tell you leave when I mean stay

The wrong way to go about this is to say: Well, researchers have 'proved' that animals only understand fifty words or something similarly absurd. Or that communication with other species is an illusion. Communication is not the preserve of humans; it is the one thing that is truly universal.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

That's just what a woman is. She thinks she knows what's good for a man, and she's going to see he gets it; and no matter if he's starving, he may sit and whistle for what he needs, while she's got him, and is giving him what's good for him.

I really didn't say everything I said. [...] Then again, I might have said 'em, but you never know.

Connie, have you been trying to call me?" No Archie. "Well, my phone has not been ringing all day, and I thought it might have been you.

Being intelligent is not a felony, but most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor.

The funny thing is the songs that people think are about me probably aren't. And the songs that are probably are the ones they wouldn't think... so that's where it kind of is funny.

Nobody ever understands what a pioneer is doing.

This is humor: A Japanese woman experiences discomfort in her eye, so she goes to see a qualified ophthalmologist. After a thorough examination, the doctor tells the Japanese woman that she has a cataract. She says, 'No, I don't. I have a Lincoln Continental.

when foreigners used American profanity. The swear words always seemed too big to fit in their mouths and were spit out rather than spoken, like a glob of tough meat they couldn't chew and didn't dare try to swallow.

I had a publisher who felt comics were just for little kiddies, so he never wanted me to use words of more than two syllables.

I am interested in most mythology. Celtic or Christian no more than anything else. I will admit to a pleasure and sense of hope in what I see as the basic teachings of Christ, stripped of the nonsense that has sometimes been accumulated about them and the embarrassing misunderstanding.

I explained it loud and clear. What part of "meow" don't you understand?

Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.

Sometimes people think they know you. They know a few facts about you, and they piece you together in a way that makes sense to them. And if you don't know yourself very well, you might even believe that they are right. But the truth is, that isn't you. That isn't you at all.

The pedestrian had no idea which direction to go, so I ran him over.

If they kept their hands by their sides they hoped that I would realise that I was hugging them but they were not hugging me.

They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.