Quotes About Misconception

But you're not as stupid as they say!... Or are you?

My mother says that smart women are always crazy.

I am quite surprised, that with all my work, and some of it is very, very good, that nobody talks about The Miracle Worker. We're talking about Mrs. Robinson. I understand the world... I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet.

asks whether an infected child can live in an orphanage. "They still think HIV is caught like a cold

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.

If this is hell, then hell could not be much, neither as special nor as ugly as I was told.

If you're like most people, you were pretty surprised by these results. Most of us aren't aware of the wide range of what these words mean to different people. We assume that when we use a term, other people use it in the same way we do and mean the same thing we do.

No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was.

The trees taunt you; the sand mocks you; the water calls your name... and they say golf is a quiet game

Before I had my first child, I thought women had to decide between being a mom and a fulfilling, successful professional life. I was wrong. Very wrong.

We want to blame people who have brain disorders - they should somehow be able to magically rise above it. It's a profound misconception.

People come up to me and say, 'It's too bad the space program got canceled.' This is not the case, and yet that is what most of the public thinks has happened.

People imagine that programming is logical, a process like fixing a clock. Nothing could be further from the truth.

I think anyone that thought that we were coming in as a bunch of liberal Democrats to deliver more large-scale social programs was nuts. I sure didn't expect it.

The Internet has perceived me as this fantastic dancer. I can still do a couple pirouettes, but I am by no means a proper dancer.

I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.

I started off as a prosecutor and I would be sitting there, waiting for the defense attorney to come, and they would either bypass me because they would assume that I'm not the attorney or they would assume that I was the legal secretary or a paralegal - never the attorney.

It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me in her entirety because a lot of people just don't like me and I don't think they would be interested in reading about me, even in the fictional context.

When people first meet me, they think I'm going to be a mean guy or something. I guess I just need to prove that you can't judge a book by its cover.

I'm not trying to prove anything. People look at me, and they take things away from me because of a movie. They don't really see the skills and the kind of player I am. That's why I get downgraded so much, because of something off the field.

Julia used to say, 'Poor Sebastian. It's something chemical in him.' That was the cant phrase of the time, derived from heaven knows what misconception of popular science. 'There's something chemical between them' was used to explain the overmastering hate or love of any two people. It was the old concept of determinism in a new form. I do not believe there was anything chemical in my friend.

There are two ways of rejecting the revolution. The first is to refuse to see it where it exists; the second is to see it where it manifestly will not occur.

The trouble is that sometimes she gets foolish ideas in her head and doesn't know what she's doing.

I grew up thinking that writer and secretary were the same, except that a writer usually smelled of cocktails and came more often to meals.