Quotes About Misinterpretation

Darcy, the heroine of 'Something Blue,' is quite shallow and opinionated. At one point, she commented that she dislikes 'gingers,' i.e., men with red hair. I received several emails from fiery redheads who said they were offended by 'my' comments. I had to remind them that it is fiction.

The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.

Just because you go to Burning Man doesn't make you Hunter Thompson.

It's fine if folk don't like my sense of humour. But if somebody misunderstands, then that hurts a bit.

I think it's funny when parents are idiots.

This league has great players, and it has great images. Sometimes those two things get confused.

History has taught us the futility of the conspiracy theory. Complexity gives rise to error, and in error we grow our prejudice.

Zegas began where Ford left off: with insinuations about Leslie's sexual proclivities. "Did she know the word coming?" he asked. "Did she know what jerked him off meant?" "Not unless someone explained them to her. I wouldn't expect her to use those words with me," Carol said. "But if she heard words in a sentence, she'd parrot it back. She'd get attention like a young child using the word doo-doo.

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

That's what makes the creationist viewpoint not just staggeringly wrong, but sadly impoverished. In twisting around the Second Law of Thermodynamics, they take a powerful tool for understanding the world and try to make it into a barrier to understanding instead.

I'm a misunderstood genius." "What's misunderstood?" "Nobody thinks I'm a genius.

As a journalist, I know what it is like to incur the self-righteous wrath of people who denounce you for things you didn't say or didn't mean.

People look at me, and they have a certain perception, and they slap a label on me. The guy you saw in a wrestling ring is not who I am.

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

As a writer I've learned certain lessons. One of them is to be careful about how you put a view, and to bear in mind how easily and readily you'll be misinterpreted.

What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I'm about as a person and as a writer.

A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.

I don't mind being asked anything! Not at all. I tell you what is annoying, is when you say something and somebody writes something that's completely different to what you said, and you're like, 'well that's not nice, because that's not what happened.'

Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.

People do not see you, / They invent you and accuse you.

Reasonable readers would have accepted my book about ghouls as a work of fiction, but such readers are rare, and most condemned it as a hoax. Even worse, totally unreasonable readers took it for a scientific treatise.

Siobhan says that if you raise one eyebrow it can means lots of different things. It can mean 'I want to do sex with you' and it can also mean 'I think what you just said was very stupid.