Quotes About Misinterpretation

Sometimes we just get it wrong.

It's what you always do. You confuse love for admiration.

when we're low, it can be easy to see everything through a prism of negativity. Human beings are remarkably bad at understanding other people's motivations, even when they know them terribly well. We write all sorts of inaccurate stories in our heads." Dr. Kovitz

I had mistaken feeling for feeling unhappy.

words are tricky little bastards, and very rarely say what you want them to say [...]

I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny.

Listen, I'm going to tell you this because no one else will, Franklin. Spider-Man sucks.

When I say I'll murder my baby's mother, maybe I wanted to but I didn't. Anybody who takes it literally is 10 times sicker than I am.

She grabbed his shirt and tore it open, buttons popping off and flying everywhere. She insinuated a knee between his thighs, meaning to apply some provocative friction to his private parts while she undid his pants. But he misread her intention. 'Oh, no, you don't

The misinterpretation of intelligence was nothing new for Alfred Pleasonton. Known universally as a toady whose sights seemed eternally fixed on self-promotion, one of Pleasonton's many weaknesses was gathering and qualifying intelligence on the enemy's movements and intentions.

I thank heaven for a man like Adolf Hitler, who built a front line of defense against the anti-Christ of Communism." It was a throwaway comment made in an interview with the New York World-Telegram from his office at Calvary Church on Park Avenue and Twenty-first Street, and it did not reflect his wider thinking on the subject. Still, it illustrates how easily even the most serious Christians were initially taken in by Hitler's conservative pseudo-Christian propaganda.

I think your hearing has become as poor as your eyesight!" snapped Smallear impatiently.

Any cat would think we'd pulled his tail out.

The designer had probably been going for Turkish Bath but had hit Czech Porn Shoot instead.

It's because I'm a rat,' he said. 'Isn't it?' 'You're not really a rat,' I said. 'I'm a rat and this is a violation of the human rights act.' I really wish members of the public would bother to read that bloody act before quoting from it. 'No it isn't,' I said. 'Apart from anything else, if you really are a rat, then the Human Rights Act doesn't apply.

I hate it when people listen to what I say in an inappropriate fashion.

from my perspective they were looking at the problem the wrong way.

They're always wrong in the movies.

Des, who brought me things I wanted (tulips, wine) to make me do the things he wanted (love him). Nick just wanted me to be happy, that's all, very pure. Maybe I mistook that for laziness.

I like strong women' is code for 'I hate strong women.

Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.

They think my mother's ashes are marijuana.

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

What strange ideas people have about leprosy, doctor.'     'They learn it from the Bible. Like sex.'     'It's a pity people pick and choose what they learn from the Bible