Quotes About Misinterpretation

You have made a mistake. You mistook the stars reflected in the surface of the lake at night for the heavens.

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

I see," he said, though, clearly, he did not.

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.

Sarcasm is lost in print.

Hip-hop has been hijacked by a Luciferian conspiracy. People have used hip-hop in a lot of ways that cause a lot of mind problems. They use the word wrongfully. They use it to mean a part instead of a whole.

People thought I was dead. But I wasn't. I was just directing 'The A-Team.'

I've discovered that the less I say, the more rumors I start.

One of the things that I see on Twitter is that people think they know what you think about things you haven't discussed.

I think a lot of times my comments get misconstrued as disrespectful and it's not.

What I read is so distorted that I cannot believe that the person they are talking about is myself.

Some extremists take elements of the sacred scriptures out of context.

I'm very familiar with how people can confuse correlation with causation.

My friend... used to tease me about a tattoo I had right here, but it was so big, and what he was teasing me about - he said it looked like a flying monkey. It's supposed to have been a grim reaper holding a ball. But it did look like a monkey.

If some woman tells me how she feels about something, my immediate assumption is that she wants an answer, or that she wants me to solve her problem. In fact, all she wants to do is share, or show how she feels.

I've been married so long I wouldn't know flirting if a woman took off her top in front of me.

Families break up when people take hints you don't intend and miss hints you do intend.

In her experience, men like Geraint were astoundingly prone to believe that their scattergun sexual advances were appreciated and even reciprocated.

The corners of his mouth twitched, but as Robin didn't see him smiling, he felt no compulsion to explain.

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

He means well. He just doesn't know what he means well.

The term "river voices" was coined by Frank O. Shaw when he and Richard Baldwin camped here in 1932. The men mistook the gurgling sounds made by the Dosewallips for the indistinct murmur of voices in the distance. They looked up, expecting to see a troop of Scouts coming up the trail, only to realize they had been deceived by the river.

Poor woman, I suppose she led a dog's life, and it made her disagreeable, which she mistook for being strong.

According to Lacey I had the lyrics all wrong. I sang like it sounded to me, because those words sounded right: I loved you I'm not going back I killed you I'm not going back.