Quotes About Misunderstanding

But the boy only muttered bitterly, You do not understand—you are too old—you understand nothing.

We insist on being Someone, with a capital S. We get security from defining ourselves as worthless or worthy, superior or inferior. We waste precious time exaggerating or romanticizing or belittling ourselves with a complacent surety that yes, that's who we are. We mistake the openness of our being—the inherent wonder and surprise of each moment—for a solid, irrefutable self. Because of this misunderstanding, we suffer.

There's a common misunderstanding among all the human beings who have ever been born on the earth that the best way to live is to try to avoid pain and just try to get comfortable.

I don't get all the anger that is thrown at comedians.

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Originally the big argument was that they wanted to call it "raw and uncut" and I told them I had a problem with that. When you say "raw" it implies that my show is dirty and that's not the case.

If you tell most people what libertarians think, they immediately assume that you cannot mean it all the way, that you're really just taking a position for argument's sake.

The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.

Talking with a Martian is like talking with an echo. You don't get argument but you don't get results.

Hesitation and the fear of being judged kills more relationships than misunderstanding and arguments.

Every discussion with a girl is an argument, and when you think you are right suddenly you realize that your trapped.

Whenever things sound easy, it turns out there's one part you didn't hear.

It was one of those plays in which all of the actors unfortunately enunciated very clearly.

Most people say I look mean, and because I play so many tough roles and because of my size and my martial arts background, they think I am, but I'm really not.

Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist

In America, the word art has become like the word adultery. It's this big scarlet letter. When you say you're an artist, people are like, "Ugh."

Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.

I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings.

What was great about the 50s is that for one brief moment - maybe, say, six weeks - nobody understood art.

The fine-art world knows very little about the cartoon world.

This year, notoriety got confused with fame, and the devil is down hearted because there is nothing left for him to claim.