Quotes About Misinterpretation

Now, having had this experience, I can't say really what they were looking for. I don't know their minds. But every time I see a reality show, it seems that the most entertaining parts on other reality shows are when they make their guests look foolish.

Obscurity is the realm of error.

The reason I was angry all the time was that Gloria Steinem and all those people, without reading my work, were saying all these horrible things against me.

Like most reasonable people, it saddens me when I see Americans celebrating a heritage they don't understand.

I have always been considered to be the most German among Italian economists, which I always received as a compliment, but was rarely meant to be one.

Friends and family do not believe you write fiction. They truly believe that every word you write is either autobiographical or based on them. I once had a character say that she never wanted to be invited to another children's birthday party, and I never received another children's birthday party invitation ever again.

This character's entirely invented, and the woman that I interviewed wouldn't recognize herself, or really anything about herself, in this book, which she hasn't read, because she doesn't read English.

Those record companies don't know what's happening at all.

My thing is, when I come across somebody, when I think they're super cute or handsome, I can't play along with that because sometimes they take it as something like, 'She wants me.'

Headlines are so great in a sense that they can take a little bit from an article completely out of context and blow it into something it's not. Some people really only read headlines.

At least when it's in French, I won't know what the heck they're saying.

I'm proud to be next to the Confederate flag. That flag is not - it is not about racism folks. It's not about hatred. It's not about slavery. It's about our heritage.

We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said.

Theologians have done more to hide the Gospel of Christ than any of its adversaries.

To give truth to him who loves it not is to only give him more multiplied reasons for misinterpretation.

And they left, neither knowing how close they had come to getting Darkenfloxxedâ"¢ out their wing-wangs.

Yes, and that puts me in mind of another thing I have to say to you! Why the devil don't you take better care of Nell? Did you get her out of a silly scrape? No, you didn't! I did! All you did was put it into her head you thought she had only married you for your fortune, when anyone but a gudgeon must have known she's too big a pea-goose to have enough sense to do anything of the kind!

Just because I cut a lark with that stiff-rumped Exciseman you seem to think I'm as good as rope-ripe!

Trying to create communication is almost always the uphill struggle of the falsely blamed.

You see us wrong, who see with your eyes, And hear nothing true though straining your ears. What thieves of wonder are these poor senses.

Q: Did you hear about the dyslexic lawyer? A: He studied all year for the bra exam.

Romeo and Juliet, the dyslexic version.

When you take somebody's quote out of context, which happens all the time, nobody's ever going to go and do the research on their own and figure out that you got it wrong.

People misinterpret what I say all the time: They think I'm being offensive, when really, I'm only being opinionated.