Quotes About Misinterpretation

Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.

Jealousy is a keen observer, but looks for all the wrong signs.

People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line.

I don't worry about people misinterpreting my kindness for weakness.

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.

The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.

He had never hit a woman in his life, but there were some women who asked for it.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

but so far it had only been used by Hound, who'd thought it was a leash and dragged Batty around accordingly.

If you think the last four words to the national anthem are " gentleman, start your engines", You might be a redneck.

Tesla understood the universe, he just didn't understand the world.

I did call you a pair of overdeveloped, single-cell Cro-Magnons." "Did you?" "Well I have now." "Nobody calls me an overdeveloped, single-bell crow magnet." "No. I bet nobody does.

Frankly, I'm guessing that before getting to my house today, Shoshanna had thought the Hoover Dam was some kind of vacuum cleaner attachment.

One would not think that fish were so silly as to confuse feathers and a hook for a fly alighting on the water, but apparently fish were foolish creatures. Or perhaps they were simply very nearsighted.

to treat a human being as an animal - as a mere space-binder - because humans have certain animal propensities, is an error of the same type and grossness as to treat a cube as a surface because it has surface properties.

Beware the fallacy of misplaced concreteness.

Distortion's all that I know.

MTV will lead us to believe that the B word has become a term of endearment or slang among equals, but I still mainly think of it as the insult of choice for the inarticulate.

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Politicians take something out of context to create problems.

If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.

National polls basically always misinterpret the final outcome or mis-predict the final outcome.

Every time I think that political analysts and writers will finally recognize that most of them don't understand much about political polls, they prove me wrong. They don't know how to read them; they don't understand the importance of cross tabs within a given poll, and they don't know how to analyze them.

People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way.