Quotes About Misunderstood

I have spent a great deal of my time defending my work against those who see it as too complicated, too old in approach, too bleak to qualify as children's literature. This has been the bane of my life.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can shift, depending on who is asking the questions. What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being 'found out.' It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

I don't expect people to get me. That would be quite arrogant. I think there are a lot of people out there in the world that nobody gets.

All my life I've felt quite misunderstood because of my personality.

Bull sharks get quite a lot of bad press.

People call me fussy, but that's a fallacy.

Most people don't know who I am in the industry. I'm far from 'Conan' and 'Game of Thrones.'

When I was growing up, golf was the geeky sport. No one really wanted to be associated with it.

People either think I'm this totally savage, idiot-savant genius guy who's lucked out or they think I'm a super-manipulative crafty businessman, this kind of MBA guy who's spotted a gap in the market and knows how to create a product for it. It's flattering, but I've not got that much of a gameplan.

Every Profound thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood

there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.

Anlam?yorlar beni, bu kulaklara göre a??z deÄŸilim ben.

there they laugh: they understand me not; I am not the mouth for these ears.

I almost wish I hadn't been painted in such a light that I was just hardcore and that I couldn't deliver a good match in the ring.

I wish I could give you all the examples over the last two years as secretary of agriculture, where I hear people in rural America constantly being criticized, without any expression of appreciation for what they do do.

The character we've always thought of as the Wicked Witch of the West is a green girl who's actually very good, misunderstood, and trying to make her way in the world. She's an outsider looking in, wanting to be loved. That's a universal experience that everyone's felt at some point in their lives.

Rock stars' wives have never been given an easy time. They weren't nice about Linda McCartney till she died.

The most frustrating thing for me as a singer is that people have pinpointed me as an actress who suddenly woke up one day and decided that I wanted to sing.

I've been misunderstood when it comes to women. I've got a big heart and a little brain. But I love women being women; there's something about their skin. I do love strong, independent women, but they are definitely complicated.

Women are the root of all evil. I ought to know. I'm Evel.

All the therapists would tell me was that I was the only healthy person they knew.

I've got mad energy for days. That's what people can't get their minds around. They say, 'Oh, he's going to crash.' They try to apply all these common terms to a guy who is not common. I don't fit into their little box.

They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.