Quotes About Misconception

They look like terrain, until they don't." Tom pointed to one of them. "That's Kevin." "Really?" Niamh said. "Fucking Kevin?

Guy knows all about women he don't know nothing about a woman.

Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.

He looked at me like I was stupid. Why do people always look at me like that?

If I believed everything everyone had ever told me about my family I'd be a sight more miserable than I am now

I always wanted to be a movie star. I thought it meant being famous and having breakfast in bed. I didn't know you had to be up at 4:00 a.m.

It's interesting because people assume that because I'm famous I know all famous people.

The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.

Superstition is just fantasy with attitude; it's a way of erroneously trying to control events.

Unfortunately in television, for whatever reason, fantasy became thought of as a kids' genre.

For years I thought my father was a hunchback. Turns out he didn't know suspenders were adjustable.

People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.

Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.

To fear what you do not understand is to mistake ignorance for safety.

One usually thinks people to be more dangerous than they are.

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

The reason why most people fail in life is because they mistake comments for advice and advice for comments.

Some people would always want to tell us who we are, without even taking time to know us. Let them keep guessing while we keep living.

There's a difference between being yourself and being your stereotype. When people I've never met say I should act more like myself, I feel like they're really saying 'act more like how I stereotype you to be, so I can feel comfortable.'

ceux qui apprennent sur la vie d'un autre quelque détail exact en tirent aussitôt des conséquences qui ne le sont pas et voient dans le fait nouvellement découvert l'explication de choses qui précisément n'ont aucun rapport avec lui.

O que chamamos nossa conduta permanece ignorado de nosso mais próximo vizinho; o que esquecemos haver dito, ou que até nunca dissemos, vai provocar hilaridade até num outro planeta, e a imagem que os outros formam de nossos gestos e atitudes tampouco se parece com a que nós próprios formamos, como um desenho, um decalque malfeito, e onde ora a um traço negro corresponde um espaço vazio, e a um branco, um contorno inexplicável.

A large part of what we believe to be true (and this applies even to our final conclusions) with a persistence equalled only by our sincerity, springs from an original misconception of our premisses.

Not all who own a harp are harpers.

Whatever is happening to Pique isn't what I think is happening, whatever that may be. What happened to me wasn't what anyone else thought was happening, and maybe not even what I thought was happening at the time. A popular misconception is that we can't change the past–everyone is constantly changing their own past, recalling it, revising it. What really happened? A meaningless question. But one I keep trying to answer, knowing there is no answer.