Quotes About Misunderstanding

All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.

Magazines started insinuating that I was having affairs with my co-stars. That hurt.

As a player I thought all managers were doing something wrong.

When you're quiet, others can form opinions that are way off the mark.

We have many Lisas, Marks, Dennys, Johnnys, and other characters from 'The Room' in America and in the entire world.

Well so am I." She stared at the coverlet. "What I said…earlier," she faltered, glancing at him and then away. "I was overwrought and tired, and I guess I kind of got carried away." "You mistook a chill for true love?

In addition, Master Twinkle seems convinced that someone is denying him a pair of stripey trousers.

As often happened, Charmain began to despair of getting her mother to understand. She's not stupid, she just never lets her mind out, she thought.

Sophie's experience told her that tantrums are seldom about the thing they appear to be about.

If you mean that boys are easy to deal with, Christopher said, I'm afraid this is not the case. Not boys from Twelve A. And not girls either, the Goddess said loudly. Not from anywhere.

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding

I thought we'd known everything there was to know about each other but obviously that wasn't the case.

Good decisions can turn into disasters when communicated poorly.

Can't you just keep your big mouth shut? Brian said furiously to Nan. He pointed to Chrestomanci. How do we know he's safe? For all we know, he could be the devil that you summoned up! Oh, you flatter me, Brian, Chrestomanci said.

You can get into trouble really fast because it's often not what you say or mean, it's what they hear and understand. And be careful not to take offense when they mean no offense.

It's difficult to say just where a marriage goes wrong, because the accepted reason often isn't the real one.

A sports announcer said: 'They're not booing - they're saying, Bruce, Bruce.

What the hell does the Jewish Museum know about Guatemalan pricks? This particular prick isn't even circumcised.

Because we are afraid to ask for clarification, we make assumptions, and believe we are right about the assumptions; then we defend our assumptions and try to make someone else wrong. It is always better to ask questions than to make an assumption, because assumptions set us up for suffering.

What we think we are saying to our customers and what our customers actually hear are two different things.

One of the biggest hindrances to business success is that we think customers can read our minds.

That's probably because they said a lot of other things, as well.

Yes, but I don't think it was deliberate. He just didn't get it, that the question was ambiguous and didn't mean that her brother had sex with them." "She did, though?" Brunetti nodded again. "She's much brighter than he is." "Women usually are," Paola said

All my life, people have taken my shyness for sullenness, snobbery, bad temper of one sort or another.