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Quotes About Misunderstanding

Just because of 'Rangeela' and 'Daud,' it can't be said that I am a sex symbol.
~ Urmila Matondkar
I told everyone who was ready to listen that I had material with pentagonal symmetry. People just laughed at me.
~ Dan Shechtman
The idea that people feel that they have to be sympathetic to me? It's a funny concept.
~ Megan Phelps-Roper
It's not very interesting to establish sympathy for people who, on the surface, are instantly sympathetic. I guess I'm always attracted to people who, if their lives were headlines in a newspaper, you might not be very sympathetic about them.
~ John Irving
In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is piece which shouldn't be heroic. And this was such a misunderstanding, such a deep misunderstanding.
~ Kurt Masur
I bounce my knees, but I do not have restless leg syndrome. I did an interview, I don't even know who it was with, and they said I told them I have restless leg syndrome and it distracts me from my work. I do not have any syndrome.
~ Taylor Lautner
When people think of chronic fatigue syndrome, they imagine someone simply sleeping a lot or who's always tired. The stigma from that name, and the name itself, desperately needs to change. In reality, sleeping doesn't mean rest at all, and it's never enough.
~ Stephanie Land
I thought you left me." Alice was standing in front of the bathroom looking all wounded. "Me?" I said. "No way.
~ Rebecca Stead
Why don't you and Patrick actually talk to each other?" Tab said. Em looked up. "Are you demented? And say what?
~ Rebecca Stead
When she finally got there, Mom hugged Belle and told her, "I owe you," like I was some repulsive burden instead of the person who had very helpfully unpacked three boxes of green bananas and scoured the refrigerated section for expired dairy items.
~ Rebecca Stead
Here's an alarming fact: of approximately eight hundred thousand words in the English language, we use about eight hundred on a regular basis. Those eight hundred words have fourteen thousand meanings. By division there are about seventeen meanings per word. In other words, we have a one-in-seventeen chance of being understood as we intended. Perhaps you've heard of Chisholm's Third Law—If you explain something so clearly that no one can misunderstand, someone will.
~ Rebecca Z. Shafir
It's hard to talk about love because most of the time, we have no idea what we're talking about. We mutter; we fumble; we blush; we purchase plush toys. None of it makes sense.
~ Regina Barreca
The greater part of a men who speak ill of women are speaking of a certain woman.
~ Remy de Gourmont
I'm sorry if I seem overly sensitive." "I'm sorry if I misunderstood your intent." "I'm sorry that we need to have this conversation." "I apologize if I misunderstood what happened." "I regret that I have to bring this up." "Please forgive me for feeling this way.
~ Renée Evenson
I wonder if you know at all what is happening in my heart, what a word. I suppose you don't. You've so many females, wife, sister, daughters, cousins, dog, in your life that you've probably confused me with them all.
~ Renata Adler
in the end, everyone can understand themselves only. You are the only one to which you never have to explain what you mean. Everything else is misunderstanding.
~ Renate Dorrestein
No man with any sense assumes that a woman's words mean to her exactly what they mean to him.
~ Rex Stout
Manifestly, sir, either your mental processes are badly constipated or you think mine are.
~ Rex Stout
He announced aggressively, 'I want to see Archie Goodwin.' 'You are.' 'I are what?' 'Seeing Archie Goodwin. Who am I seeing?' 'Oh, a wise guy.' We were off to a bad start, but we got it straightened out that he meant that I was a wise guy, not that I was seeing one...
~ Rex Stout
He dropped sheets on the fire, turned to look at her, and inquired, "Do you use 'infer' and 'imply' interchangeably, Miss Blount?" She did fine. She said simply, "No." "This book says you may. Pfui. I prefer not to interrupt this auto-da-fé. You wish to consult me?
~ Rex Stout
Miscommunication is at the heart of your heartbreak
~ Rhonda Britten
These were facts, not myths, although what freight they carried I could not say. I was deaf in Simon's language, and blind in his culture. In the end, all I really
~ Rian Malan
I shook his hand and thanked him, and as I thanked him I welled up and as that happened I tried to explain. 'It's because I'm from Chicago,' I said. 'Where in Chicago are you from?' he asked. 'Glencoe.' 'That's not Chicago,' he said, and waved me away.
~ Rich Cohen
As for Kirsten, every day made her more unhappy: she felt Jack blaming her for something but she didn't know what she'd done.
~ Rich Horton