Quotes About Misinterpretation

You take insult where none is intended, but if you will find insult where none is meant, then perhaps I should try harder to insult on purpose.

People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it.

Of women, the most we can say, not being Frenchmen, is that they are burrowing animals.

You read between the wrong lines.

Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

Whenever people have used religious documents to make accurate predictions about our base knowledge of the physical world, they have been famously wrong.

That's the harm of Close Encounters: that it convinces tens of millions that that's what just science fiction is.

Astrology is a cousin of racism.

Sometimes you can't agree with people because you would both be wrong.

I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.

I felt a stack of shelves, and these were filled with plastic bottles and maybe buckets, and one object that felt like the worst thing in the world but which turned out later to be a sandwich.

Tell me, if you thought a man had a tendresse for you, but he wasn't doing anything about it. And you wanted to hurry him up a little so you made a move, an unmistakable move; one that nobody could pretend had been a misunderstanding. And he - he ignored it - ignored you. What would you feel?

The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.

Communications can be precise and exacting while still being tragically wrong.

Conversely, a person with low emotional sensitivity can sometimes have a really hard time intuitively understanding what another person is feeling. This person may need to have a lot more explaining and more direct and specific requests in order to be emotionally supportive and responsive. Low emotional sensitivity can leave a spouse or partner feeling misunderstood or even lead to falsely (but understandably) believing that the other person doesn't care about him or her.

There is no surer basis for fanaticism than bad history, which is invariably history oversimplified.

And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?

The Devil for a joke Might carve his own initials on our desk, And yet we'd miss the point because he spoke An idiom too dated, Audenesque.

What did he do to you?" I asked her, ignoring the darkening of the bear's looming face. "Nothing," she declared, enunciating distinctly. "Do you think every man wants to get me in his bed?" "Every man who's not dead already—or gelded.

Sorry about my sister. She's really close with Peter and she gets crazy ideas…" "Crazy ideas?" John repeats. I could slap myself. "Yeah, I mean, she thinks that something's going on with us. But obviously there isn't, and you don't, like, like me like that, so, yeah, it's crazy." Like, why do I speak? Why did God give me a mouth if I'm just going to say dumb stuff with it?

I bit my lip to keep from saying, You have allergies, not swine flu.

Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn't make it a biscuit.

that's hilaire belloc,' i said to my friend. 'ford was here this afternoon and cut him dead.' 'don't be a silly ass,' my friend said. 'that's aleister crowley, the diabolist. he's supposed to be the wickedest man in the world.' 'sorry,' i said.

mistook stars reflected in a pond at night for those in the sky.