Quotes About Misconception

Just because I'm confident and will tell you that I'm awesome and that I'm great, I'm all of the sudden the bad guy? Why am I always the bad guy?

People hear my dad is involved in politics, and all of a sudden I went to private school and had a nanny. There's a misconception that my dad, that our family is some kind blue-blood family... If people knew my friends, talked to anybody I grew up with, knew anybody from my old neighborhood, they'd know that's really, really far from the truth.

To suggest that all members of the Republican conference represent their district in a manner that's reflective of the makeup of their district would not be accurate.

All I've ever really done is page 3 in The Sun, and not every man reads that.

It's a misconception that I compose songs for girls. I have sung a song for Bhagat Singh, too, but nobody knows about it. I have sung about boys, but all of them are super-duper flop.

A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.

A lot of people assumed I faded off into the sunset.

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

I must begin by saying something about the old Germany. That Germany, too, suffered from superficial judgment, because appearances and reality were not always kept apart in people's minds.

The word miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is a monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.

Es tan malo, entonces, el ser mal interpretado? Pitágoras fue mal interpretado, y lo fueron Sócrates, Jesús, Lutero y Galileo, y lo fueron todos los espíritus puros y graves que han honrado a la humanidad. Ser grande es ser mal comprendido.

We see that the world seeks happiness instead of holiness. Therefore, we assume we should do the opposite. But we're wrong.

We should not judge our books by their covers, some books exist between covers that are perfectly people-shaped

So many people are. Afraid of firemen, I mean. But you're just a man, after all...

They were hopelessly caught in a mire of pretty words, which they seemed to believe themselves.

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

It's queer how out of touch with truth women are. They live in a world of their own, and there had never been anything

Catch-22 did not exist, he was positive of that, but it made no difference. What did matter was that everyone thought it existed, and that was much worse, for there was no object or text to ridicule or refute, to accuse, criticize, attack, amend, hate, revile, spit at, rip to shreds, trample upon or burn up.

It feels good, honey, but it isn't love.

Her problem wasn't she was a dumb blonde, it was she wasn't a blonde and she wasn't dumb.

Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.

Your Mama's so stupid- Lassiter dematerialized and re-formed on the far side, spinning the rods- she thinks a California dime is something you dial a phone with. ~ Lassiter ' The Shadows' page 11

I love the way people always think they know somebody your age until you tell them how old you really are! "I'm going on twelve," I said. "Gretchen is almost twelve too," the doctor said. Well! He was right about my age.

There are certain verses in the Quran which convey injunctions similar to the following: 'Kill them wherever you find them.' (2:191) Referring to such verses, there are some who attempt to give the impression that Islam is a religion of war and violence. This is total untrue. Such verses relate in a restricted sense, to those who have unilaterally attacked the Muslims. The above verse does not convey the general command of Islam. (pp. 42-43)