Quotes About Misunderstanding

I terminated the interview when I didn't know what he was talking about and went upstairs to lunch.

Whitey is uptight about offending blacks without really knowing what offends blacks.

Since the beginning of my recording career in 1975, I have had a little difficulty because the pop stations think I'm a jazzer who doesn't have a feeling for pop, so it's hard to get my records played. Similarly, black urban radio doesn't understand that with my R&B roots, I am more than a jazz singer. So I get pigeonholed.

How does he support Clinton's urban agenda? He doesn't know what it is.

A woman never sees what we do for her she only sees what we don't do.

Woman's place is in the wrong.

Most men who run down women are running down one woman only.

It was not noisy prejudice that caused the work of Mendel to lie dead for thirty years, but the sheer inability of contemporary opinion to distinguish between a new idea and nonsense.

We are infected by our own misunderstandin g of how our own minds work.

Hello?... No I'm sorry no Shaquita here. Well what number did you dial?.. No it's a nine not a seven... Well try it if it doest work call me back we'll figure this thing out.

People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me.

I get so tired of people saying, 'Oh, you only make fantasy films and this and that', and I'm like, 'Well no, fantasy is reality', that's what Lewis Carroll showed in his work.

Sometimes you talk to people who really don't know anything about your work, and what can you say?

People have always thought that I wasn't ambitious. They judged by appearances and were fooled. I was competitive. I wanted success and was willing to work for it.

Sometimes people just don't understand the way that I work in politics.

Have you tried talking to her?" "No. We've been punching her in the face repeatedly. What? You don't think that will work?

The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writer's ideas or personality.

Ever try to have a conversation with someone on drugs? It just doesn't work.

I don't want people running around saying Gwen Brooks's work is intellectual. That makes people think instantly about obscurity. It shouldn't have to mean that, but it often seems to.

I look very serious. I look stern even when I'm not stern. If I'm not feeling cross, I look a little bit cross. I can't help it. It's just my face.

There has been the biggest black cloud following me around. People believe it's all my fault that Steve is not here. He has always had an open door, and he doesn't choose to do this any more.

Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

A lot of people misunderstand what is Strong Style. Hard hits? Stiff? I don't think so. Strong Style is a kind of philosophy.

There's a lot of stigma attached to being in a home. Other parents don't want their kids to play with you because you're naughty or nasty.