Quotes About Misconception

Madonna, Madonna, delicious Madonna, why is it that they don't make red wine in Germany? What do you mean, there are some aren't there ? Nope, they're white, Madonna, Madonna, delicious Madonna, why is it that there are no red wines in Germany?

La gente que tiene el corazón en el cuello, en los labios, en los pantalones, en fin, en cualquier otro lugar que no sea en su lugar, acusa de no tener corazón a quien sí lo tiene en su lugar. Después de haber buscado en vano ese corazón en cada uno de los lugares que ellos conocen para el corazón, se convencen de que no tiene corazón; pues él lo tiene justamente en su lugar y ahí no se les ocurre buscarlo[1].

innuendos—and sometimes they weren't even

The biggest public fallacy is that the market is always right. The market is nearly always wrong. I can assure you of that.

We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.

It is thought that potato water is unhealthy; and therefore do not boil potatoes in soup, but boil elsewhere, and add them when nearly cooked.

Empty wine bottles have a bad opinion of women.

We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.

The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.

There are few things worse than mistaking an enemy for a friend.

It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a surgeon.

I think I throw the ball as hard as anyone. The ball just doesn't get there as fast.

People think [baseball players] make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Many people are surprised to hear that we have comedians in Russia, but they are there. They are dead, but they are there.

You think I'm weak, but I think you're wrong

I stopped explaining myself when I realized people only understand from their level of perception.

A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.

X-rays will prove to be a hoax

I've risen from the dead. Though sometimes, when I wake up in the morning, I feel like I've died. I swear I'm aging in dog years. But no, I'm not dead. It's funny how stuff like that gets started.

Dont let the spike hair fool you, like I'm not a b*tch.

When they said Canada, I thought it was up in the mountains somewhere.

I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.

Stereotyping didn't become stereotyping without being rooted in fact. - Petra Reuter