Quotes About Misunderstood

Ik denk te veel. Het interesseert niemand. Mijn gedachten zitten in mij als sardines in een blik. Een blik waarop een verkeerd etiket is geplakt zodat niemand de inhoud kan raden.

affirmative action programs that were intended to broaden the leadership population have been so misunderstood and misused (by cynical white male managers far more than by minority applicants, it must be said) that their chief effect has been, perversely, to de-credential those minority achievers who rise entirely through diligence, industry, and learning.

To the mind that could dream and shape our beaconed universe, what is injustice to us may be unfathomable tenderness, and our horror only loveliness misunderstood.

Animation had been a thriving medium when Walt came along, but was dismissed as amateur entertainment for children. Common were bland, forgettable, poorly drawn characters going through nonsensical antics. Walt himself could barely draw a decent Mickey Mouse.

Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.

The thing people don't realize, God bless them, is that my books are supposed to suck.

Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.

I'm not a bad guy... I'm just good guy that runs over women with his car.

Still, one of the few good things about being dyslexic is that when I say I don't read reviews, I mean I don't read reviews.

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

What a childhood I had. My parents sent me to a child psychiatrist. The kid didn't help me at all.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.

Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.

Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.

Kant was probably the worst writer ever heard of on earth before Karl Marx. Some of his ideas were really quite simple, but he always managed to make them seem unintelligible. I hope he is in Hell.

My parents didn't like me. For bathtub toys they gave me a blender and a transistor radio.

I wasn't shy, but I was really hyper. Nobody got my sense of humor. I was a black skater kid.

Matt is a tortured soul, ' Amanda insisted. 'He's Heathcliff and you're Cathy. He's Rochester and you're Jane Eyre. He's-''Darcy and I'm Elizabeth. I get it. And you're wrong.

Here's the thing about being shy: just because you're not bowling people over with your giant personality, they might think there's not a lot going on inside. But they'd be wrong. Quiet types have rich inner worlds - we just don't let everyone see them.

My heart pounding, I tried to follow what I saw the others doing. It did not seem difficult, though I managed to step on the troll's feet several times. Luckily, he did not try to converse with me. It was not long before he led me off the dance floor and then left me. Relieved, I hoped he would pass along the word that the troll lady in the colorless dress had two left feet.

Frankenstein as the underdog. Not the monster. The villagers pursuing him are the monster.

Why is it nobody understands me and everybody likes me?