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Quotes About Misconception

A lot of people think I'm just an athletic thug.
~ Stephen Jackson
When people question your integrity, when people question who you are from afar, when they've never had a conversation with you, and don't know the time and effort you've put into your communities, but then you're kind of this thug, this out of control player, that makes no sense to me.
~ Jermaine O'Neal
I think people assume that having thyroid disease means you're older and overweight, but in reality, thyroid disease strikes at all ages and affects all sizes.
~ Gena Lee Nolin
Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, 'You play blues. That music is so sad.' I gave them tickets to the show, and they came up afterwards and said, 'You didn't play one sad song.'
~ Buddy Guy
People keep telling us, that they didn't know when they were booking tickets for it, but afterwards they say that they've had no sense that they were watching an old fashioned play.
~ Bill Irwin
It never occurred to me that one could just buy tickets to the Tonys. I figured you had to be invited.
~ Andrew Rannells
The popular misconception is that narcissists love themselves. In reality, they direct their love at other people's impressions of them. He who loves only impressions is incapable of loving people, himself included.
~ Sam Vaknin
This is one of the disadvantages of wine: it makes a man mistake words for thought.
~ Samuel Johnson
If you dont read the newspaper, youre uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, youre misinformed.
~ Samuel Langhorne Clemens
But then, did I look like a detective? Come to think of it, most people don't try to guess what women do for a living by the way they look - but they are usually astounded to find out what I do.
~ Sara Paretsky
The ability of dandelions to tell the time is somewhat exaggerated, owing to the fact that there is always one seed that refuses to be blown off; the time usually turns out to be 37 o'clock.
~ Miles Kington
I was so drunk the whole time that I took bottles for girls and girls for bottles.
~ Anton Chekhov
Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.
~ H. G. Wells
Everybody says Steve McManaman played on the left for me in Euro 96 but he never played on the left. The one time he did play on the left was against Switzerland.
~ Terry Venables
When I was a kid, everybody in the neighborhood picked me to be the one in jail or be in the cemetery by the time I was 20.
~ Bo Jackson
A lot of people get a misconception And start drifting in the wrong direction Miss Goody Two Shoes see you later I ain't got time and you ain't nuthin but a playa hater.
~ Rappin' 4-Tay
Very often, people who actually pick up a book of mine for the first time are kind of surprised. And I get these letters saying, well, who knew that you were good, you know?
~ Salman Rushdie
The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.
~ Vince Gill
I'm not worried about misconception or a perception that's bad. If I were, I'd be chasing something all the time.
~ Elisabeth Hasselbeck
All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch.
~ Isaac Asimov
Happens to me all the time...People are always underestimating my dumbness.
~ Janet Evanovich
I start laughing every time because the media talks to me like I'm finishing my career and I only have one year left and time is running out.
~ Caroline Wozniacki
One of the things I have come up against time and again in my career is the notion that because a book is easy to read it was somehow easy to write.
~ Matthew Reilly
and Liam was a dead loss from day one, thinking he'd be
~ Marian Keyes