Quotes About Misinterpretation

They mistake their star, these papery godfolk.

That is not it at all, That is not what I meant, at all.

I tell you, it is not me you are looking at, Not me you are grinning at, not me your confidential looks Incriminate, but that other person, if person, You thought I was: let your necrophily Feed upon that carcase

I'll tell you what I want. Magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misinterpret things to them. I don't tell the truth. I tell what ought to be truth. And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it! - Don't turn the light on!

We look no deeper into things because we do not desire this; neither are we meant to. That is the design of the world, to trick us into believing it is one thing, when it's entirely another.

Hey, tell me, when did this conversation go completely whoosh?

Every truth in this world stretched beyond its limits will become a false doctrine.

If you cannot understand something, then you have understood it incorrectly.

Spirituality is as bastardized as religion.

I'm loath to do interviews. What comes out is generally not what I meant or thought I was saying or thought they were asking.

I've had some pretty rough interviews. And it's funny when people are interviewing you, and they sort of don't really understand what you do, and they kind of insult you.

People who think I have insulted Ireland or Limerick or my family have not read the book!

Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.

I hate that song 'Mr. Bojangles.' It drives me up the wall, since it's not about him at all. He was never a bum in jail.

We can't be guided - because we're so far from it. We've so destroyed it. We're so far from that that we can't use it. I mean, Jim Bakker heard from God. What a good job he did!

One of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes.

There are Idols which we call Idols of the Market. For Men associate by Discourse, and a false and improper Imposition of Words strangely possesses the Understanding, for Words absolutely force the Understanding, and put all Things into Confusion.

There are those who understand everything till one puts it into words

Marx's work has often been dismissed as 'crude dogma', usually by people who give no evidence of having read him.

They thought he was a dog. If you say "dangerous dog," folk think you're talking about a dog that bites, not someone who hands out deadly weapons at children's parties.

We attach such importance to verbal communication that we lose track of what our bodies say about us.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

If people can't tell when I'm being an idiot and when I'm being a genius, perhaps they'll assume my blunders are brilliant political maneuvers.

But since then you've acted like I was a gorilla at your buffet." "A...what?" "Gorilla at your buffet. You know... eating all your food? Making you annoyed? That kind of thing?