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Quotes About Misconception

People are always introducing me as Sarah Silverman, Jewish comedienne. I hate that! I wish people would see me for who I really am — I'm white!
~ Sarah Silverman
Everybody blames the Jews for killing Christ, and the Jews try to pass it off on the Romans. I'm one of the few people who believes it was the blacks.
~ Sarah Silverman
When I appear in public, people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is easy.
~ Anne, Princess Royal
Men are all the same, they think that because they came out of the belly of a woman they know all there is to know about women.
~ Jose Saramago
I had liked him for all the wrong reasons.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped
I certainly didn't have New York Jewish humor. But I was in three Mel Brooks films so people thought I was a connoisseur of New York Jewish humor.
~ Gene Wilder
You know, you're rather amusingly wrong.
~ Terry Pratchett, Maskerade
How come you don't ever hear about gruntled employees? And who has been dis-ing them anyhow?
~ Steven Wright
Wisdom of the Ages: "Tooth Fairy" Growing up in the Northwest was tough. For years I thought the Tooth Fairy was a big boat with cars and sharp teeth.
~ Matthew Heines
We were not actually famous, I have to add. People were just drunk.
~ John duover, Rites
I've never been bothered with my conduct. I've only been bothered by people that don't get it correct when they gossip about me.
~ Shannon L. Alder
I've never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don't like eating fish. And I know that's very popular out there in Africa.
~ Britney Spears
From an early age onward, it was said that 'Ingmar has no sense of humor.'
~ Ingmar Bergman
I am really the victim of other people's imagination.
~ John Hurt
People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
Just because someone has fancy sneakers doesn't mean they can run faster.
~ Jon Bon Jovi
In economics, the majority is always wrong.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
~ Jackie Joyner-Kersee
No place is ever as bad as they tell you it's going to be.
~ Chuck Thompson
Isn't corn like a meat or something?
~ my friend, 2015
If Jesus' death is different, it is not because he suffered more than other martyrs, either physically or spiritually, nor because his death was lonelier, or more humiliating, or more gruesome (despite Mel Gibson's heroic attempt to render it so). This common idea is quite mistaken. Such considerations are not what make Jesus' death unique. The uniqueness of his death is found in its meaning
~ James Warren
some people no want to listen to the truth and like to believe in a beautiful dressed lie from the wrong person.
~ Jan Jansen
Who ever thought up the word "Mammogram?" Every time I hear it, I think I'm supposed to put my breast in an envelope and send it to someone.
~ Jan King