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Quotes About Misunderstanding

I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.
~ Ice T
You beefed cause you heard that I was cursing in my raps, 86, still you wanna run and get the straps.
~ LL Cool J
Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it was really a typewriter.
~ Pablo Picasso
Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?
~ John Kennedy Toole
The prevailing attitude of the speakers was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the reader had not said.
~ Ronald Knox
How is it that two people can be in the same relationship and still have completely different ideas of what's going on?
~ Daria Snadowsky
If I had an ordinary illness, I'm sure they could fix me. But I've seen demons rip my world to pieces. Nobody believes that, so nobody knows what I'm going through. I'm alone. I always will be. That's my life now. That's just the way it is.
~ Darren Shan
Mr. Crepsley What are you doing? Darren Looking for fangs. Mr. Crepsley We do not grow fangs, you ass!
~ Darren Shan
We don't grow fangs, you idiot!
~ Darren Shan
Leonard Aster thanked Fighting Prawn and the Mollusk tribe for their hospitality. "You mean," said Fighting Prawn, "for not killing you?" "Yes," said Leonard. "It was very gracious of you." "Do you," said Leonard, "I mean, does you tribe, shake hands?" "No," said Fighting Prawn. "We kiss on the lips." "Oh," said Leonard, looking very alarmed.
~ Dave Barry
Molly squeaked and clicked (the clicks were the hardest) something back, which she hoped was "Hello." What she actually said was "My teeth are green," but the porpoise was too polite to point that out.
~ Dave Barry
Q. How is the turn signal used in Florida? A. It is used to indicate to other motorists that you do not realize your turn signal is blinking.
~ Dave Barry
That got her up on stage pretty quick, and she sang a song, which was in Spanish, so I don't know what it was about, except she seemed to be singing it mainly to Sharisse and it had a word that sounded like "poota" in it a lot.
~ Dave Barry
All day long I'd biddy-biddy-bum As you can imagine, this unfortunate condition has an adverse impact on Tevye's milkman career, as it seriously hampers his ability to interact with his customers: CUSTOMER: I need two quarts of milk and one pint of cream. TEVYE: Okay, that's two quarts of milk and one pint of boody booboo
~ Dave Barry
Late that night, I get back to Grant and Eric's, and they are watching a movie where Al Pacino is blind. Al Pacino is angry and talks with an unplaceable accent. He is maybe Canadian.
~ Dave Eggers
Reassurance, like offence, is taken not given.
~ David Adam
The wrong words make you listen in this criminal world. - Fantastic Voyage
~ David Bowie
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity. Don't assign to stupidity what might be due to ignorance. And try not to assume your opponent is the ignorant one — until you can show it isn't you.
~ David Brin
What I'm trying to say, Garion,' Durnik continued seriously, 'is that you can't go through life being afraid of what you are. If you do that, sooner or later somebody will come along who'll misunderstand, and you'll have to do something to show him that it's not him that you're afraid of.
~ David Eddings
Bheid and Leitha, but he didn't say anything.
~ David Eddings
These outlanders are peculiar, aren't they? Longbow smiled faintly. They seem to think that we're the peculiar ones. Their lives are very complicated, but we try our best to keep everything simple. I'm not sure exactly why, but that seems to offend them for some reason.
~ David Eddings
Thou art to be my companion, and it ill-behooves companions to have misapprehensions about each other.
~ David Eddings
Show me somebody who really knows what irony means and I'll show you a bullshit artist.
~ David Foster Wallace
I think, today's irony ends up saying: How totally banal of you to ask what I really mean.
~ David Foster Wallace