Quotes About Misrepresentation

To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office.

to justify their own spilling of ink they spell the day as night

I think I've had 16 books that purport to be a biography of me. I've never cooperated with someone.

I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.

Social media can blow anything out of proportion.

Sometimes arguments get publicized so much that it gets blown all the hell out of proportion.

I sounded like Bob Dylan for about five minutes, and it was blown out of all proportion.

I'm really bored by the constant vilifying of people (especially women) for things they didn't say.

Everybody always wants to make the show 'What's it like to have a beer with that person?' And everyone sucks at making it.

They do awful things in the press. One newspaper in England said I was 12 years older than I am, and I was ready to sue.

I've had battles with writers who live in L.A. and were writing southern characters, because they felt like if they wrote 'Sugar' and 'Honey' at the end of every sentence, that would make it southern.

Take a text out of context, and you make it a pretext.

It's a lot of funnels and a lot of water poured down the spout and out the bottom, and them telling us it's wine when it's not.

they just run the answers at you, bing, bing, bing, and us sitting there for four more hours of film-teacher. That's not social to me at all. It's a lot of funnels and a lot of water poured down the spout and out the bottom, and them telling us it's wine when it's not.

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

How ironic, it seemed to me, yet, perhaps, how symbolic, that in our age of rapid mass production and the easy proliferation of consumer products, the richness and diversity of the American literary imagination should be so misrepresented in most anthologies and textbooks! Of

Arabs used to produce science and algebra and now we're famous for killing.

I have never seen a contemporary history book that informs students that witch trials were also occurring across the world at that time with 500,000 put to death in Europe,45 including 30,000 in England, 75,000 in France, and 100,000 in Germany.46 Why do modern texts point out the twenty-seven deaths in America but ignore the 500,000 elsewhere? Historical Negativism.

Of course, there is some truth in advertising. There's yeast in bread, but you can't make bread with yeast alone. Truth in advertising," announced Lord Peter sententiously, "is like leaven, which a woman hid in three measures of meal. It provides a suitable quantity of gas, with which to blow out a mass of crude misrepresentation into a form that the public can swallow.

I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.

When you crop a photo, you tell a lie.

The only accidents I know of are incidents that have been subjected to a serious case of mislabeling

Colonization and civilization? In dealing with this subject, the commonest curse is to be the dupe in good faith of a collective hypocrisy that cleverly misrepresents problems, the better to legitimize the hateful solutions provided for them.

I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a phone call and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say.