Quotes About Misconception

Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.

Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.

How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand things of which we have no practical knowledge at all.

Delusion is not just fantasy but compulsion.

She was heavier than he expected - women always are.

Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate.

Apostates have hinted that I'm the ill-begotten daughter of Medusa and the Marquis de Sade. As against these slanders there are the hymns of my champions, equally inaccurate, that I'm a fusion of Annie Laurie, Bopeep, Florence Nightingale and whichever waif Lillian Gish played in The Orphans of the Storm. Somewhere in between these contrary verdicts lies the truth.

There is less in this than meets the eye.

I didn't know you even could get arrested in Amsterdam

She would walk toward him, sniffing the air around him, like a hound. He smelled of alcohol—not

When we misconceive reality it is very easy to become obsessed. And then, when our obsession lets us down, which will definitely happen sooner or later, we will experience anger and depression.

It's funny how you think you can know a person

she looks me up and down like I might be holding her grandbabies hostage in my body.

When he hipped me to Go Tell It on the Mountain, he didn't say one word about Jimmy being a homosexual.

You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.

It is a misconception to think that during evolution humans sacrificed physical skill in exchange for intelligence: wielding one's body is a mental activity.

There's a palpable frustration with the assumption that everyone who's under the age of 25 has got the attention span of a gnat and isn't interested in events and ideas.

I'm often mistaken for Spanish or Latin descent.

'Ruby Sparks' has been sold like a romcom in the States. But we never saw it like that.

People will speak slowly to me sometimes. And they always ask me if I'm all right, because I'm much more low-key and reserved than my character in 'Friends'.

I hadn't really noticed that I had a hearing problem. I just thought most people had given up on speaking clearly.

Nobody speaks German outside of Germany.

I know nothing more annoying when people I don't know jump to conclusions on my person based on nothing but gossip or speculation.