Quotes About Misconception

I think it's a common misconception in the civilian community that the military community is filled with just drills and discipline and pain. They forget that these are humans who are in an abnormal situation.

Everyone has got a perception of what a footballer is and, because I am a certain size, that I can only play one way - as a battering ram.

I had no idea about nutrition. I thought by eating salads you'll stay skinny.

It is beautiful to acquire knowledge, but it is misleading to expect it to bring us peace, love and happiness.

Platonic love is platonic nonsense.

I love it when people ask if Jennifer Weiner is a pen name. Um, if I wanted a pen name I could have done a LOT better than this!

People who expect enmity to suddenly convert into love are probably using the wrong model.

What I love about photography is that nothing is really as it seems.

See, I remember love. That's what people don't understand.

The unpleasant image of the feminists today resembles less the feminists themselves than the image fostered by the interests who so bitterly opposed the vote for women...

This wouldn't be so bad, I told myself. But secretly, I knew that I was quite wrong.

The Forest Service is truly an extraordinary institution. A lot of people, seeing that word forest in the title, assume it has something to do with looking after trees. In fact, no—though that was the original plan.

Returning to my book, I learned that Sarah Palin thought Africa was a country. It was a wonderful evening.

You could see in an instant that she had been the local good-time girl since about 1931. She had "Ready for Sex" written all over her face, but "Better Bring a Paper Bag" written all over her body.

it became fixed in many people's minds that MSG was a kind of toxin. In fact, it isn't.

The conviction that we should all drink eight glasses of water a day is the most enduring of dietary misunderstandings.

The belief that and should not be used to begin a sentence is without foundation. And that's all there is to it.

Clergymen sometimes preached against the potato on the grounds that it nowhere appears in the Bible.

Goodness knows what this is meant to suggest—I suppose that this is some sort of Hall of the People—but the effect is that it looks as if two dozen citizens of various ages are about to commit mass suicide.

The Internet is like Hitler they think they are getting rid of the problem but they're not

Obama is not a secret Kenyon, or a secret Muslim, he's a secret Republican.

We're all gonna be gay if we get health care!

CALVIN: Our country was founded a very long time ago, roughly around 200 B.C. TEACHER: (Glowering): 200 B.C.? CALVIN: Before Calvin. CALVIN: (Now sitting in the corner, wearing a dunce cap) That's what's IMPORTANT!

Then she says, You don't read women authors do ya? At least that's what I think I hear her say. Well, I said, how would you know and what would it matter anyway. Well, she says you just don't seem like you do. I said you're way wrong. She says which ones have you read then. I say I've read Erica Jong.