Quotes About Misconception

Why is it that people say they "slept like a baby" when babies wake up like every two hours?

The misconception that bothers me the most is the notion of madness," Pettit said. "It devalues him as a great artist. He was so hard working, so dedicated, so exacting, but some rather believe he had to be insane to write about insane characters. It's the opposite. You have to be in complete command of your art to depict that so effectively.

if you eat less than you burn, you will lose weight. This seems perfectly logical. The problem? It's not true.

Marie Antoinette is said to have dismissed the plight of the poor by declaring, "Let them eat cake." But there's no evidence the queen ever said it, and plenty of evidence that Jean-Jacques Rousseau did. His autobiographical book, "Confessions," included the phrase about 1767, before Marie Antoinette even got to France. The quote in the original French refers to brioche, which is not really a cake and is better described as an enriched bread roll.

It is a common misconception — pervasive and tenacious, but a misconception nonetheless — that arses are made for sitting on. It seems, instead, they are made for running.

"Classic": A book which people praise but don't read.

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

Most people named Willie are either in prison or on the armwrestling circuit.

With rap, it's a funny thing. You can say things, and people can take 'em the way they wanna take 'em.

99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.

I am originally from Indiana. I know what most of you are thinking: Indiana - mafia.

I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.

The idea that you can't be attractive and funny at the same time is something that I hate.

Don't think you are looking at me because you are not.

Wasn't Winston Churchill the first black president of America? There's a statue of him near me... that's black.

Funny, now I can see, how looks can be deceiving.

He does have that weird mixture of born again Christian and stupid that some people mistake for courage and focus.

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.

It's funny how someone's perception of you can be formed without you even knowing it.

It's a great compliment that people think they're fast reads. It's always funny to me because it takes so long to get a book (written) -- for me, it's never quick.

It's funny, because I don't think of my films as "slow-burn." I don't even know if I was familiar with the phrase until people started labeling me with it.

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

Girls are always complaining that they can never meet a nice guy. Nice guys are everywhere. The problem isn't that there aren't any nice guys, the problem is that all of the nice guys are ugly.