Quotes About Misconception

I know I have to be like people expect, because people love to dream with me, they like to think that I love my boat of 50 metres, that I drink Cristal for breakfast, that I dance until five o'clock in the morning. I am not like that.

the opposite of man is woman. Language enable us to deny this, but makes affirmation easier.

he guessed, totally incorrectly.

I thought lacrosse was what you find in la church.

Harry Truman never said 'Give 'em hell.' He said, 'I just told him the truth and they thought it was hell.

No one's paying any attention to sociopaths, or they think we're all killers, which is a misconception.

It took me me many years to realize that my perceptions at this time was completely wrong.

Children's literature as a literary aberration or at best a minor amusement is a notion held most strongly by people who read the fewest children's books. I think it was Ruth Hill Viguers who compared this attitude with asking a pediatrician when he's going to stop fooling around and get down to the serious business of treating adults.

It indicates a deep confusion of thinking to mistake one's own discomfort for a benefit to another.

I had to explain to them that the Bastard does not ever execute unrepentant sinners with a dirk, nor a large hammer.

it indicates a deep confusion of thinking to mistake one's own discomfort for a benefit to another.

Beware of false knowledge, it is more dangerous than ignorance" ~ Bernard Shaw

I used to think that those essentially happy and romantic novels that ended with a wedding were all wrong, that they had left out the most interesting part of the story.

Which is it, she asked. Is it CLIToris or clotORis? I didn't know. Why didn't I know? It may depend on which you have, I said.

Are you anywhere near Champaign-Urbana? No. I went there once. I thought from its name that it would be a different kind of place. I kept saying to myself, 'Champagne, urbah na, champagne, urbah na! Champagne! Urbana' He sighed. It was just this thing in the middle of a field.

I used to think you were a good-for-nothing book reader.

His mama is so stupid she thinks Meow Mix is a dance album for cats.

And as we get older, our lenses get more and more narrow and blurrier until we only see our own tiny pin-point view; this limited vision eventually makes bigots of us all. This is why so many marriages fall apart. You meet someone, think that you know them, marry them and then ten years later you divorce them because they turned out not to be who you thought they were. They never were.

I think most of the things we call evil are not evil at all; it is just that we don't understand those things and so we call them evil. And we fear evil only because we do not understand it. - Gabriel Marez

In those days of the second World War it was still widely believed that women who had just delivered could reasonably be expected to be off their heads. 'Yes, dear,' these meek women said, with a certain mournful importance. 'I was outa me mind. Terrible, really. All me milk went to the brain. I suppose it curdles, like.

You can't judge an internal injury by the size of the hole.

People think they are all sort of things they aren't' he had sad. 'They think they are talented when they're not; they think they're powerful when they're actually just bullies; they think they're good when they're bad. People fools themselves all the time, and they don't know that they're fools

Don't let the zealots make Muslim a terrifying word. [ 1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor' (Columbia University / The New York Times , December 12, 1991)]

I met a guy yesterday, 7 feet tall. Yeah, handsome, great big guy, 7 feet tall! ... I figured he had to be in sport, but he wasn't in sport.