Quotes About Misunderstanding

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

My cousin's gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.

Some of the journalists who've ended up writing about our band - and this is disappointing to say - have a very narrow outlook. And because of that they fundamentally misunderstand us.

The outside world hardly knows me and thinks Jwala is a celebrity.

Difficulty empathising translates into a whole set of hurdles. You might be last person to get the point of a joke, which can leave you feeling like an outsider. You might end up saying something that another person finds hurtful or offensive, when that was the last thing you intended.

Maybe people overlook me because of the way I talk or the way I look. I don't know.

Losing the ability to talk to each other doesn't just happen overnight. Things like that develop gradually.

Maybe Larry was wrong about the word friend, maybe he'd been shoved away from everybody for so long all he was was a sponge for the wrongs other people did. Maybe, after all this time, he'd started to believe their version of him.

That's not my picture...

You keep using that word "Born Again", I don't think it means what you think it means.

Two blondes walk into a building. You'd think at least one of them would have seen it.

Wars start when two parties haven't taken the time to learn each other's tongues.

That's the problem with friends sometimes, they invest in who you were or seem to have been, capture you and you're through. Forget what you had in mind about changing, growing, developing. Got you typecasted.

Look, I'm a person, an individual with a character and part of my character is about what I believe in and part of my beliefs obviously is a religious conviction. I simply hesitate whenever I get drawn into this territory because I have found, over time, that it either leads to people misunderstanding the basis upon which you are taking decisions or it leads to people trying to colonise God or religion for one particular political position. I make no claims to that at all.

Sometimes I think that love is a case of mistaken identity.

What's your name?'Leon said, when waht he meant was - may I love you for ever? And she told him.

Language is a piss poor attempt at telepathy is what it is. We try to put our thoughts into each other's heads through language...But half the intended meaning gets lost in the transmission, and the other half is filtered through existing assumptions. Everything is a half truth! That's the whole problem! You can't understand me through the smog of your presumptions and prejudices. Multiply that six billion times and you'll begin to understand the desperation of our global situation

And here I sit with my stamps in a complete muddle, and nobody has bothered to tell me what it's all about." "Listen now, Hemul," said Snufkin slowly and clearly. "It's about a comet that is going to collide with the earth tomorrow." "Collide?" said the Hemulen. "Has that anything to do with stamp-collecting?

You saved us in the nick of time." "Have I saved you?" asked the Hemulen in surprise. "I didn't mean to. I was looking for the caterpillars that were making such a noise down there." (Hemulens are generally a bit slow in grasping an idea, but they are very pleasant if you don't annoy them.)

That's not true, not grammar, and it doesn't even rhyme properly,' said Snufkin, and the subject was dropped.

Jostain syystä en ole koskaan tullut toimeen hämähäkkien kanssa, jos ne ovat niin pieniä, ettei niiden kanssa voi puhua.

Haven't you ever been spooked by something everyone else thinks is a nonissue?

I tried to tell people about it, but I was drunk: they thought I was talking in riddles or metaphors.

I am sorry, my dear. It was never my intention to be cruel." "I am not your 'dear,' so please refrain from calling me such," Hannah said, narrowing her eyes.