Quotes About Misinterpretation

I sounded like Bob Dylan for about five minutes, and it was blown out of all proportion.

An artist could have a really big relationship, and then they break up, and any song after that, people are automatically going to assume that that song is about that person.

Studio execs were like, ''Lord of the Rings!' People want to see sword-and-dragon-type things!' No, people just want to see great stories. Hollywood always takes the wrong lesson from successes.

Holy scripture does not hold women back. It's the people that decide to interpret it in such a way for their own, sometimes political, agendas.

Everybody always wants to make the show 'What's it like to have a beer with that person?' And everyone sucks at making it.

I don't know how me having a conversation with Tomi Lahren all of a sudden turned into me hating black women.

Just because I'm confident and will tell you that I'm awesome and that I'm great, I'm all of the sudden the bad guy? Why am I always the bad guy?

I've never linked team selection to offering prayers, and reports suggesting otherwise are all wrong.

A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

This is why Jesus challenged the notion that more evidence would have generated more faith. George Macdonald said years ago that to give truth to him who does not love the truth is to only give more reasons for misinterpretation.

Take a text out of context, and you make it a pretext.

The Devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I

Nobody asked you what you did say to Yossarian. We asked you what you didn't say to him.

hands I could deny there were crab apples in my cheeks. Every time someone asked me why I was walking around with crab apples in my cheeks, I'd just open my hands and show them it was rubber balls I was walking around with, not crab apples, and that they were in my hands, not my cheeks. It was a good story. But I never knew if it got across or not, since it's pretty tough to make people understand you when you're talking to them with two crab apples in your cheeks.

I think it's a little presumptuous on his part to think that I would want to talk to him anyway. I mean, sure, I went home with him, probably slept with him, ate breakfast with him, and wore his clothes to work the next day. None of this I see as necessarily flirtatious on my part.

misinterpreting her silence for a broken heart, her cynicism about men for depression, ir despondency [...]

misinterpreting her silence for a broken heart, her cynicism about men for depression, or despondency [...]

Of all Biblical figures, surely Judas is the most misunderstood, as he is the most condemned!"—so Winslow believed.

There are certain verses in the Quran which convey injunctions similar to the following: 'Kill them wherever you find them.' (2:191) Referring to such verses, there are some who attempt to give the impression that Islam is a religion of war and violence. This is total untrue. Such verses relate in a restricted sense, to those who have unilaterally attacked the Muslims. The above verse does not convey the general command of Islam. (pp. 42-43)

Like many another Western pioneer, he had heard the clock of history strike, and counted the strokes wrong.

Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information -- hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.

Verwechsle nicht den Botschafter mit der Nachricht." (Storr der Schnitter)