Quotes About Misinterpretation

Thus, to take the phrases in Acts and make them into a magical incantation upon which God s forgiveness rests is to grossly misunderstand the phrase and, consequently, grossly misportray the kind of God whom Scripture reveals. Beyond

There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.

People tend to create drama and make things far worse than they are in reality.

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can't read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.

A woman will toss her head and a man will say, 'Oh she's trying to pick me up,' when in fact she's not doing that at all. So, women actually have to be a little careful with what they do, because men will pick up things that they didn't mean.

Everything that Eddie has said about me is the total opposite of what really happened. Eddie says I wanted to be a solo artist. No, Eddie wanted to be a solo artist.

I took an IQ test and the result came back negative.

Uno de estos presagios, malinterpretado en extremo e incluso fomentado y elogiado públicamente, fue la obsesión por el deporte que se adueñó de la juventud alemana en aquella época.

Signs must be read with caution. The history of Christendom is replete with instances of people who misread the signs.

I can't tell you how many times in the '90s I'd meet somebody, we'd be having a nice time, and they'd sigh and go, 'This is exactly like Before Sunrise.' And I'd have to get up and leave.

I think what bothers me so much of the time, is they take the data and theory and distort it. They must know they're distorting.

Unfortunately, people think I'm negative and bitter all the time, and that's not the case.

Publishers seem to be in an alcoholic haze most of the time. Well, the publishers have no idea what a writer is.

What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party.

People want me to be funny all the time. They think I'm being funny no matter what I say or do and that's not the case.

Sometimes fate brings two people together by causing one to misinterpret a smile.

Maybe the girls in my gym class had been right all along, and poetry was a trick on smart people—a bunch of hooey, fawned over by whining fops of the most stick-up-the-ass variety.

One IGHS member said that, yup, she could hear it, too. Then again, during a dinner conversation earlier in the trip, this same woman heard "Siegfried and Roy" as "Sigmund Freud." The resulting image-Sigmund Freud with flowing hair and tigers and too much men's makeup-haunts me to this day.

At an Italian deli counter, a whiff of butyric acid reads as parmesan cheese; elsewhere, vomit.

You mean like a small silicone breast implant?" I wasn't actually thinking that, but sure.

They think of it as lubricating, and that's it!" She went back to her hotel room and called her boyfriend in tears.

Frightened, I ran into the study to tell him and asked, "Are you going to call Dr. Schloss?"5 By which he deduced that I had eaten the pennies to get attention. I hadn't, but that's what having a reputation means. It's like getting a carved owl for your birthday and politely saying how much you like it; soon, everyone thinks that's what you want and you're overrun with owls.

The skeptical note in Roldugin's "He really thought he knew something …" is as clear and unmistakable in the original Russian as it is in the English translation, but it seems that both Roldugin and Putin, who certainly vetted the quote, missed it.)