Quotes About Misconception

There's a false perception that women in Africa somehow don't love their babies they way we do, don't grieve their loss the way we would. That is simply not true.

People ask me what I'm writing. They think I'm Sandra Tsing Loh. Or they ask about stand-up. 'No, that's Margaret Cho.' I really think there is this kind of glomming, that they think we are somehow all the same person.

To all those who have drawn the inference from my words that Africa, as a continent, is somehow genetically inferior, I can only apologise unreservedly.

People really think that the only way I got to be press secretary is because I somehow had a personal family connection to the Bushes or the Cheneys, and that wasn't true.

I think some people who have never met me have a misconception that when I was living with my father when he was successful, that I was somehow adversely affected by his success or the money he had and was making at the time.

But some people act like they think I live in the jungle someplace.

How am I overrated if I've never gone to the Pro Bowl? To be overrated, you have to be someplace you shouldn't be. I don't see that.

You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else.

To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old, without knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love.

It's a misconception that people over 65 do not use computers. They love them they are always consulting Dr Google.

Virginia Alison, Heaven Scent

You know it wrong honey. I am friendly. I am not user-friendly.

Many of us believe that when we give love, we are getting the love back but sometimes it's just an illusion of what we gave them ..

This is why the whole notion of "geisha houses" being dens of ill repute is so ridiculous. Men are barely allowed inside these bastions of feminine society, let alone permitted to frolic with the inhabitants after they arrive.

l'idea di una casa di geisha intesa come covo di malaffare è tanto ridicola. Gli uomini sono a stento ammessi all'interno di questi bastioni della società femminile, figuriamoci se potrebbero mai intrattenersi con uno dei suoi membri

everyone at that time still believed you could infect everyone else 'asymptomatically

Novels, as everyone knew, were for women and for people who had nothing better to do.

In childhood, she had had milk allergies, or so they'd thought. But either she'd never had them or had outgrown them or ice cream transcended all problems.

wrong, Miss Drew

That dowdy little prig is that good in bed.

Stars are like people,.. just because they appear to emerge from the same point doesn't mean that they do. This is an illusion of perspective created by distance. Not all families manage to hold it together,..Everyone moves in different directions. That we all emerge from the same point is a misconception; to travel in different directions is the very nature of every being and every existing thing.

I don't think she liked being called a slut, I don't know why… some women are just funny like that.

You can't know everything by looking at me. You can never know by looking at someone.

But you are proof that you can think you know someone yet never really know them at all.