Quotes About Misunderstanding

T.C.: Um, actually you just said "I live in a parking lot." You didn't mean to do that. Lori: You've never seen traffic on Concord Street at eight o'clock in the morning.

I like Palestinians in the morning when they come and we talk but in the evening, who knows, maybe they don't know that I'm nice.

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.

No matter how successful I got, my mother still thinks I'm a bad person, basically.

As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us.

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she'd kill me. She thinks I'm selling dope.

Until adolescence I thought I had the best mother in the world. Such a graceful mother. I had this fantasy that I was the wrong daughter.

Heard about the young deaf boy who used sign language-One day he told his mother a dirty joke and she washed his hands out with soap

I wanted to do something nice so I bought my mother-in-law a chair. Now they won't let me plug it in.

My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.

I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.

Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!

Muggs was always sorry, Mother said, when he bit someone, but we could never understand how she figured this out. He didn't act sorry.

My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldnt understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.

I know my mother so well, so it's hard for me to remember that people have a certain image of her, but they don't really know her personality.

my mother ... took the fact that my taste differed from hers as a personal insult.

I'm telling you that you got your facts wrong. I didn't kill your brother. But you killed my mother. You might as well have held the gun to her head!

Even his mother, his own mother, had once accused him of being a snob.

Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n' roll.

If I walked on water, my accusers would say it is because I can't swim.

People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.

In enlightenment, the seer and the seen disappear. Or, more accurately, are seen through as illusions. In reality, they were never there, apart from being concept and misunderstanding.

I like to watch French movies with the volume up so my neighbors could think I'm terrorist.

They're always wrong in the movies.