Quotes About Misinterpretation

People may chuckle appreciatively at a male turkey that tries to mate with a poor rendition of a female's [suspended] head, but if you then point out that many a human male regularly gets aroused after looking at two-dimensional representations of a nude woman, they don't see the connection.

My silences he mistook for a lack of wit rather than a lack of any need to speak.

There can be no misunderstandings if there are no understandings at all.

I bit my tongue and sat through his detailed and strained explanation. Not for the first time, I realized he considered me slightly slow. My silences he mistook for a lack of wit rather than a lack of any need to speak.

he guessed, totally incorrectly.

I have been called a fool as often as I have been called a prophet.

Those who idealize the past tend not to understand it: restoration kills it with kindness.

It always happens when women become at last the subject and not the object: in order to define what women, or a group of women, or an individual woman are/is, first one must define what this subject is not. So thorough is the stereotyping, the perception of female as Other, the deliberate misinterpretation of motive, that the lies must be peeled away before a female reality can even be approached.

Harry Truman never said 'Give 'em hell.' He said, 'I just told him the truth and they thought it was hell.

I remember a song we used to sing, Columbia, Gem of the Ocean. But I thought it was, Columbus, Jump in the Ocean.

None of us got it right. The message was written in letters too big to read, letters that could only be deciphered from a vast distance or an unusual angle. We were as good as blind. This, by the way, is a figurative expression. Unlike many on the spectrum, I can deploy those.

Things, however, rarely happened the way you understood them. Mostly they just sort of drove up alongside what you thought was the case and then moved randomly down some other way.

Womenfolks have powerful imaginations when it comes to a man, an' she can read things into him he never knew was there, and like as not, they ain't!

pretty face, I mean vase.

I've neither beauty, money, nor rank, yet every foolish boy mistakes my frank interest for something warmer, and makes me miserable. It is my misfortune. Think of me what you will, but beware of me in time, for against my will I may do you harm.

He completely misread Rockefeller's psychology.

His mama is so stupid she thinks Meow Mix is a dance album for cats.

Very foolish it is to use the wrong word to a stranger; for though the heart may be clean of offence, how is the stranger to know that? He is more like to search truth with a dagger.

I'm not offended until you think I'm offended.

There is no stress. It is a misinterpretation of a situation. Just change your perception and stress will melt away.

I hate books; they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand.

D'Artagnan took every smile for an insult, and every look as a provocation

Any proposition containing the word is creates a linguistic structural confusion which will eventually give birth to serious fallacies.

The abuse of symbolism is like the abuse of food or drink: it makes people ill, and so their reactions become deranged.