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Quotes About Misunderstanding

This is what happens: you imagine the things I will say and then say them for me and then become angry with them. Without my mouth; it never opens. You speak to yourself, inventing sides. This itself is the habit of children: lazy, lonely, self. I am not even here, possibly, for listening to.
~ David Foster Wallace
She regarded the things that were important to me as her enemy, not realizing that they were, in fact, the "me" she seemed so jealously to covet.
~ David Foster Wallace
So my offense is what, misdemeanor gargling?
~ David Foster Wallace
Callers who even more unconsciously blemish-scanned or nostril-explored looked up to find horrified expressions on the video-faces at the other end. All of which resulted in videophonic stress.
~ David Foster Wallace
One of his troubles with his Moms is the fact that Avril Incandenza believes she knows him inside and out as a human being, and an internally worthy one at that, when in fact inside Hal there's pretty much nothing at all, he knows. His Moms Avril hears her own echoes inside him and thinks what she hears is him, and this makes Hal feel the one thing he feels to the limit, lately: he is lonely. It's
~ David Foster Wallace
the result of an estimated 86.5% of 20C dates was a state of severe emotional dissonance between the date's participants, a dissonance attributed by most sources to basic psychosemantic miscodings
~ David Foster Wallace
Troeltsch's so dumb he thinks a manila folder's a Filipino contortionist.
~ David Foster Wallace
And I'll say that I felt something dark in my heart when my husband almost nudged me there. I felt that it was a sorry business indeed when my own spouse couldn't tell I was being serious. And I told him so.
~ David Foster Wallace
How can you talk if you don't say anything? I said. You talk without words. We are always talking without words. Well, what good are words, then? Not very good, most of the time. Most of the time they're only good to keep back what you really want to say, or something you don't want known.
~ William Saroyan
Lady, shall I lie in your lap? Ophelia: No, my lord. Hamlet: DId you think I meant country matters? Ophelia: I think nothing, my lord. Hamlet: That's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs. Ophelia: What is, my lord? Hamlet: Nothing.
~ William Shakespeare
Captain of our fairy band, Helena is here at hand, And the youth, mistook by me, Pleading for a lover's fee. Shall we their fond pageant see? Lord, what fools these mortals be!
~ William Shakespeare
But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.
~ William Shakespeare
My lord, the queen would speak with you, and presently. HAMLET Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel? POLONIUS By th'mass, and 'tis like a camel indeed. HAMLET Methinks it is like a weasel. POLONIUS It is backed like a weasel. HAMLET Or like a whale? POLONIUS Very like a whale. HAMLET Then I will come to my mother by and by. - They fool me to the top of my bent. - I will come by and by.
~ William Shakespeare
If you find him sad, say I am dancing. If in mirth, report that I am sudden sick.
~ William Shakespeare
Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.
~ William Shakespeare
I cannot speak your england.
~ William Shakespeare
Mother, you have my father much offended.
~ William Shakespeare
Ho! now you strike like the blind man; t'was the boy that stole your meat, and you'll beat the post.
~ William Shakespeare
O Hero, what a Hero hadst thou been.
~ William Shakespeare
Do you know me, my lord?' Excellent well. You are a fishmonger.
~ William Shakespeare
By this reckoning he is more a shrew than she.
~ William Shakespeare
Villain I am none. Therefore farewell. I see thou knowest me not.
~ William Shakespeare
Good morrow to you both. What counterfeit did I give you? MERCUTIO: The slip, sir, the slip; can you not conceive?
~ William Shakespeare
Say'st thou me so? is that a ton of moys? Come hither, boy: ask me this slave in French What is his name. Boy- Ecoutez: comment etes-vous appele? French Soldier- Monsieur le Fer. Boy- He says his name is Master Fer. PISTOL- Master Fer! I'll fer him, and firk him, and ferret him: discuss the same in French unto him. Boy- I do not know the French for fer, and ferret, and firk.
~ William Shakespeare