Quotes About Misinterpretation

The most obvious symptoms of an epoch-making system are the misunderstandings and the awkward conduct of its adversaries.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.

The great difficulty with communication is the illusion it has been accomplished.

Most gay men did not speak out against anti-gay policing so openly, but to take this as evidence that they had internalized anti-gay attitudes is to ignore the strength of the forces arrayed against them, to misinterpret silence as acquiescence, and to construe resistance in the narrowest of terms - as the organization of formal political groups and petitions.

It's ill guessing what the bats are flying after.

Mrs. Tulliver had lived thirteen years with her husband, yet she retained in all the freshness of her early married life a facility of saying things which drove him in the opposite direction to the one she desired. Some minds are wonderful for keeping their bloom in this way, as a patriarchal gold-fish apparently retains to the last its youthful illusion that it can swim in a straight line beyond the encircling glass.

I think people have a misinterpretation of Method acting, because Method acting is a wonderful thing. The thing is, if you take it too seriously, it's like religion. You start to think it's the truth. But it's not the truth. It's just a way to get somewhere.

Please don't try and dramatize my relationship with Woody Allen. He was never any kind of father figure to me.

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.

I love that I can talk to my fans through Twitter, to cut out the middle man. Because I've done interviews where my words have gotten twisted, so it's nice to be able to have things coming straight from me.

Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.

I mangle phrases constantly. The other day I was chatting with my boyfriend and I said to him, 'He really sold him under the bus.' And he said, 'I think you meant 'threw him under the bus,' or 'sold him up the river.'

The U.S. museums weren't looking at my paintings at all - they hated them, irredeemably. People metaphorically threw up when they saw my work! They thought I was enlarging comics, or just copying them.

When some women literally throw themselves at you, it's easy to get confused and think that every woman is eager for your attentions.

A lot of people think I'm just an athletic thug.

Pennsylvania." The boys nodded appreciatively, as if Abby had said Emily was from Naughty Dirty Sex Land

I was so drunk the whole time that I took bottles for girls and girls for bottles.

Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.

I said to a girl I'd been seeing, come home with me, honey, and I'll show you where it's at. She said, You'd better, because the last time I could'nt find it.

The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.

My mind and gut are never simpatico: Every time I think somebody likes me, she doesn't; every time I think somebody doesn't like me, she does. This has never changed and I'm certain it never will.