Quotes About Misconception

Italian-Americans are not the Mafia.

People tend to think of psychopaths as criminals. In fact, the majority of psychopaths aren't criminal.

I don't think the guys I played with have ever had a problem with me. People can make up what they want to think.

There is a misconception over whether black ex-players can make successful managers.

When you're quiet, others can form opinions that are way off the mark.

Everyone always has to have the rational, scientific explanation for something, even if it's so obviously wrong you could scream.

To anyone who took the trouble to look, I was plainly visible, but when people are expecting to see nothing, that is usually what they see.

They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.

I believed if word got out about grace, the whole church was going to turn into a brothel.

Maybe that's why I tend to equate physical beauty with qualities with which it has absolutely nothing to do. I see a pretty mouth or a moody pair of eyes and imagine all sorts of deep affinities, private kinships. Never mind that half a dozen jerks are clustered round the same person, just because they've been duped by the same pair of eyes.

Never judge a book by its movie.

IT'S NOT WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW THAT HOLDS YOU BACK; IT'S WHAT YOU DO KNOW THAT ISN'T TRUE

we certainly don't recommend applying yogurt to the vagina or the penis during sex

The original title for The Lion King was King of the Jungle - until someone pointed out that Lions don't actually live in the jungle.

Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.

Most wives think of their husbands as bumbling braggarts with whom they happen to be in love.

If you thought better of me, you would not be so surprised

A curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it.

en blekgul sol som verkade ha försvagats av överansträngning. Men det var soligt i alla fall, vilket var trevligt och lindrade min hemlängtan. Så när jag såg att solen sken klev jag upp och satte mig en klänning. Det var helt fel. Solen sken visserligen men det var kallt i luften. Det var mitten av januari men jag kände inte till att solen kunde skina utan att det blev varmt. Det hade ingen upplyst mig om.

Don't ascribe to evil what can be attributed to well-intentioned stupidity.

Womenfolk just tend to get lost, he'd always say; it's just a weakness they've got.

Yesterday I asked a five-year-old child who Jesus was. You know what he replied? A statue.

It is the lowered head that makes her seem less noble than, say, a horse, or a deer surprised in the woods. More exactly, it is her lowered head and neck. As she stands still, the top of her head is level with her back, or even a little lower, and so she seems to be hanging her head in discouragement, embarrassment, or shame. There is at least a suggestion of humility and dullness about her. But all these suggestions are false.

People can portray me anyway they want because I don't give a damn. I am what I am. And until those people touch me close enough, they'll never know who I am. If they don't want to see me in this interview or a newspaper article, and say "what's the matter with this guy?" Let'em say it. But don't you analyze me and don't you tell me what I am until you get close enough to understand what I am. Then you can make an analysis of me, but don't you dare do it until then.