Quotes About Misconception

As I travel around the world, people think the only place where there is potential conflict [over] water is the Middle East, but they are completely wrong. We have the problem all over the world.

I'd heard street food was a big thing here in Mexico but I didn't think it meant the creatures that lived on the street.

The people of Seattle deny they get much rain while the rest of the country thinks of it as America's bladder.

If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong tree.

Astrology is a sickness, not a science ... It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive.

Trust is the delusion of truth with ill fated consequences

Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth

There are many people out there who don't even think of themselves as being averse to facts, but the truth is, they are not getting it.

The news and the truth are not the same thing.

She'd automatically assumed it was men trying to kill her. Look at that. She was guilty of reverse sexism or . . . whatever.

People don't realize that I'm really funny and I'm an excellent bridge player.

It is a great misunderstanding to want to discover something worth living for.

It's odd, because I used to see pictures, on telly or wherever, of what I now know to be Shaftesbury Avenue and I used to wonder what that amazing street with all the lights was. Well, now I know. I think when you get a wee taste of something, it maybe isn't what you thought it was.

Ich zum Beispiel sehe aus wie immer. Wie eine Schlampe ungewissen Alters, die Männer auslutscht, Zigaretten verschlingt, auf hohen Hacken hockt, in ihrem Dekoleté nach Dingen sucht, nach Spaghetti oder ausgelutschten Kippen, nichts findet und sich darauf einen Mann ansteckt.

The question is not how pilots can be so silly to rely on this, but how they have been led to believe (built up a mental model) that this is actually effective.

Yes, America is gigantic, but a giant mistake.

The Acadians may not have been literate, but they were neither uncultured nor unsophisticated.

La soga parecía tranquila cuando dormía sobre la mesa o en el suelo.Nadie la hubiera creído capaz de ahorcar a nadie.

First impressions are crap.

Men that look upon my outside, perusing only my condition, and fortunes, do err in my altitude; for I am above Atlas his shoulders.

An old and gray-headed error.

If people see me having dinner with a beautiful woman, they immediately believe that I'm having a love affair with her. Of course that's rubbish. I'm not a playboy!

The world loves to be deceived.

I would love to direct a play. But I think when people look at me they see music and dancing and singing.