Quotes About Misconception

In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.

For a few months when I was about 17, I smoked a small cigar because I thought it looked cool and it would get me the girls. It didn't.

Before I found out what poker really was I had this picture in my mind of men smoking cigars and having all these chips and like going all macho and crazy. I don't think there's been that much done in the mainstream community to change that perspective.

People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.

The way you see me on 'Jersey' is a snapshot, and you can't judge from a snapshot.

I am a very reserved person and people think I'm a snob, which I'm not.

South Central's been portrayed so many different ways in the media for however long.

On the other hand, there are only so many people who really knew how she was exactly, like what did her accent sound like, and the fact that she developed profound deafness when she was first running the Harriet Lane.

My mom and brother are both doctors, and it seems crazy that so many people think science is a mutable idea.

The biggest myth I'd like to bust isn't about me - it's about musicals. So many people dismiss the entire art form through highbrow snobbery, but I think a lot of those people would be suprised if they actually saw some.

He didn't want to be like some old-fashioned imperialist missionary, poncing about like Moses in a safari suit, capitalizing on a misconception that he was from the same tribe as Jesus and that God was an Englishman.

We tell them about a Santa Claus who rewards little children who are "good," or more like "God." These messages are distorted. The kind of god who plays with justice doesn't exist. Santa Claus doesn't exist. All that knowledge in our head isn't real.

In any case, it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask, so that the voice of the novel can hardly be heard over the noisy foolishness of human certainties.

Zijn hele leven was hij bang haar te kwetsen. En alleen daarom onderwierp hij zich vrijwillig aan de discipline van een afstompende monogamie. Twintig jaar later blijkt opeens dat zijn bezorgdheid totaal overbodig is en dat hij tientallen vrouwen heeft gemist vanwege een misverstand!

Muchas personas, cuando se unen físicamente, creen que se han unido también espiritualmente y manifiestan esta errónea convicción sintiéndose automáticamente autorizadas a tutearse. Yo, debido a que nunca he compartido la errónea fe en la coincidencia sincrónica del cuerpo y el alma, recibí el tuteo de Helena confuso y disgustado.

People are always surprised by how much I love to eat. I guess I don't look like I eat that much, but I can put it away.

Most people think that God wants us to demonstrate our love for God by having churches and by having symbols - and I think that's a huge error.

You don't think it's"– and now she looks around the restaurant before leaning in, whispering–"AIDS?" "Oh no, nothing like that," I say, though immediately I wish I had paused long enough before answering to scare her. "Just . . . general . . . brain"—I bite the tip off an herbed breadstick and shrug—"injuries.

Sheen's supposed propensity for violence against women hadn't hurt his popularity with female fans either, and if anyone wants to know what that means, then that's a story for maybe fifty other books.

Suspicions have a way of becoming "facts," even if they have no basis in truth.

Suspicions have a way of becoming "facts," even if they have no basis in truth. —PRINCESS IRULAN, The Book of Muad'Dib

But the real concern is with obese people. They typically underestimate how much they eat by 30 to 40 percent. Some think they eat half as much as they actually do.14

Non aveva mai capito perché la gente che leggeva Edgar Wallace per gusto e che riteneva che i gatti neri portassero sfortuna dovesse sentirsi offesa dalla dottrina della transustanziazione.

Cute. Who is she?" "The devil." "Really. I thought the devil would be taller.