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Quotes About Misunderstanding

Because women are elephants and watch the way you say that in front of them because they'll think you're calling them fat and there's no coming back from that moment. But they hoard. They say they don't, but they do. We think that if something's not spoken about again, it goes away. It doesn't. Nothing goes away just like that, Mackee.
~ Melina Marchetta
I said, "It's not like that." I wanted to convince her. I said "We think alike." Oh, my dear," she said. "A man thinks with his dick.
~ Melissa Bank
That was the thing about pictures--they were worth a thousand words, but sometimes they weren't the right ones.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
How was I to know? ... You didn't say anything." "I said lots of things," he corrected gently. "You just didn't hear them.
~ Melissa Marr
I'm beginning to think that you aren't with child. You've simply become fat after reading too many recipes.
~ Meljean Brook
Hey Shelly, you're looking at me like I'm from another planet. What's wrong?" "Nothing's wrong. Bubbles sold me alien abduction insurance. I haven't got a care in the world.
~ Unknown
Aí é que você se engana, Nhonhoso: eu não sou bom. Sou é muito vagaroso nas maldades.
~ Mia Couto
You Never Know A True Friend Until You get Into A Serious Misunderstanding With Him Or Her
~ Unknown
John Comaroff, an anthropologist, has written that history is 'any succession of rupturing events which together bring to recognition our misunderstandings and misrecognition of the present'.
~ Unknown
Puck flapped up to the happy couple. "Wait a minute! You have to ask someone to marry you? No one told me that! I thought you just hit them with a club and dragged them back to your cave!" Henry put his arm around Sabrina. "You're officially grounded from ever getting married." "Thank you," Sabrina whispered sincerely.
~ Michael Buckley
You mean people pay you to do this to them? I thought you had captured these people and brought them here against their will! How do I become a dentist?
~ Michael Buckley
I hear noises coming from his mouth but they don't sound like words," Daphne said.
~ Michael Buckley
I was cast as a drunkard, and at my first rehearsal I came staggering onto the stage, then swayed about a bit. The director held up his hand. "Stop. What are you doing, Michael?" "I'm drunk in this scene," I explained, failing to hide my irritation that it had not been apparent.
~ Michael Caine
He pilfered a copy of Ulysses, but it was possibly the one book he did not finish. 'What's the point of it? I suspect it was a bit of a joke by Joyce. He just kept his mouth shut as people read into it more then there was. Pseudo-intellectuals love to drop the name Ulysses as their favorite book. I refused to be intellectually bullied into finishing it.
~ Michael Finkel
I know what I have said, but not what you have heard.
~ Michael Flynn
What the fuck? Didn't you tell him you had a boyfriend?" "I did. He asked if I loved you." "Who is this guy? What's he do?" "He's an accountant in Boston." "An accountant? Jesus Christ, didn't you tell him you're dating a fucking war correspondent?
~ Michael Hastings
Maybe nothing's so unfunny as an omen read wrong.
~ Michael Herr
All the wrong questions have been asked and the correct answers are not true.
~ Michael Hogan
suppose it was an uninformed jab at my family background (he thought we were rich), and what he really meant was, "At least Mangum has to work for a living." The D.A. confused class with wealth—often the case with those who lack the former.
~ Unknown
È un errore madornale credere che i pettegolezzi interessino più alle donne che agli uomini.
~ Michael McDowell
Barbara, shut up," said her son Luker. "You know very well why it's a private funeral." "Why?" "Because we are the only people in Mobile who would have come. There's no point in advertising a circus when everybody hates the clown.
~ Michael McDowell
Tioga did you wipe it on my mustache?
~ Unknown
The only choice once your world has been torn apart is to find your genius and live with that. 'Normal' is out of the question. The healing for veterans, or anyone going through great tragedy, is finding your natural spirit and your genius that was waiting to be found. That can now become the cohering principle in your life. The idea of patching someone up and back into normal when they've had extremely abnormal experiences is a misunderstanding.
~ Michael Meade
We had not liked each other much at first. He mistook my shyness for arrogance and I failed to see that his arrogance masked his shyness.
~ Unknown