Quotes About Misunderstanding

Whoever said "Wagner's music isn't as bad as it sounds" was as wrong as he was funny,

The author has discovered to his cost that if you call a zoo to ask the cubic volume of the average adult camel, they treat you as if you are a complete idiot.

Do I have a separate room? Don't I make love to you well?" She hesitated, smiling with exquisite suspicion. "Do you call that love, Fred?" "There are other words for it, but you wouldn't appreciate them.

Undiagnosed DID patients received incorrect diagnoses of schizophrenia in 25% to 40% of cases in two large series (Putnam, 1989; Ross, 1989), while in one series 12% and in the other 16% had received electroconvulsive therapy.

Don't tell me you've offended that one too." Daeng shook her head. "Have we offended that one?" Siri asked. "Don't recall," said Civilai. "Wait. Isn't he the one whose limousine we filled up with ducks?" "No. That was the Vice-Minister of Agriculture.

Dog bark at what they don't understand.

Dogs bark at what they don't understand.

Dogs, by this same logic, bark at what they cannot understand.

Los perros, de cierto, ladran a quien no conocen

Amelia Bedelia and Alice followed

When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.

But everyone thought you were dead. You didn't write, that's why you're alive now.

Then you go on talking, about something you never actually mention. And your forehead and mouth are as far apart as they can be.

The Russian commands sound like the name of the camp commandant. Shishtvanyanov: a gnashing and spluttering collection of ch, sh, tch, shch. We can't understand the actual words, but we sense the contempt. You get used to contempt. After a while the commands just sound like a constant clearing of the throat—coughing, sneezing, nose blowing, hacking up mucus. Trudi Pelikan said: Russian is a language that's caught a cold.

They all fired into the air, no doubt about it, said the old man with the fur cap, but it was the air that happened to be in people's lung.

Cuando callamos, resultamos desagradables ... cuando hablamos, quedamos en ridículo.

The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia.

But I had to think to myself that this was normal, because that was the attitude. I was 19 when I went to see my doctor and I was told it was all in the mind. [Author Hilary Mantel on being told her endometriosis was imagined pain, From Oct 2009 Daily Mail interview]

Richard goes with a bob of the head but without another word. It seems he interprets 'don't tell anybody' as 'don't tell anybody but Rafe', because ten minutes later Rafe comes in, and stands looking at him, with his eyebrows raised. Red-headed people can look quite strained when they are raising eyebrows that aren't really there.

This was the usual thing. What I asked for was facts: what I got was a sermon.

You know what you meant. I only know what you said.

Di che natura è il limite fra la verità e la menzogna? È permeabile e sfocato, poiché è disseminato di voci, dicerie, malintesi e storie alterate. La verità può buttare giù i cancelli, può urlare per strada; se però non è piacevole, gradita e facile da accettare, è condannata a piagnucolare davanti alla porta di servizio.

Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artifact of your mental illness.

Jay Levy saw ten women," the doctor later recalled, "And he thought they were all hysterical. Then he saw a man, whose complaints he took seriously.