Quotes About Misinterpretation

I think so many people have taken biblical scriptures out of context on this, to say stuff like, 'Well, Jesus was a refugee.' And yes, he did live in Egypt for three and a half years. But it was not illegal. If he had broke the law, then he would have been sinful and he would not have been our Messiah.

If others tell us something, we make assumptions, and if they don't tell us something we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know and to replace the need to communicate. Even if we hear something and we don't understand, we make assumptions about what it means and then believe the assumptions. We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions.

Es fácil vivir con los ojos cerrados, interpretando mal todo lo que se ve...

I am responsible for what I say, but I am not responsible for what you understand.

Si los demás nos dicen algo, hacemos suposiciones, y si no nos dicen nada, también las hacemos para satisfacer nuestra necesidad de saber y reemplazar la necesidad de comunicarnos

Es fácil vivir con los ojos cerrados, interpretando mal todo lo que se ve…. – John Lennon

Zijn hele leven was hij bang haar te kwetsen. En alleen daarom onderwierp hij zich vrijwillig aan de discipline van een afstompende monogamie. Twintig jaar later blijkt opeens dat zijn bezorgdheid totaal overbodig is en dat hij tientallen vrouwen heeft gemist vanwege een misverstand!

Ljubav se moze pojaviti u najcudnijim oblicima.Zato je i cesto pomesamo sa necim sto ljubav nikada nece biti.

SLASH What was your first sexual experience? BOBBY When I stuck my arm down a garbage disposal. PAT That wasn't a garbage disposal. BOBBY Who was it?

you can get dyslexia from pussy

Very small errors in our understanding of the Gospel can result in very big problems.

Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone.

A survey shows that more college graduates are homosexual than those with lesser education; therefore education makes people gay.

the whole point of the wish business was to see to it that what the client got was exactly what he asked for and exactly what he didn't really want.

That was great, al' that reading' ye did!' said Rob Anybody. 'I didnae understand a single word o' it!' 'Aye, it must be powerful language if you cannae make oout what the heel it's goin' on aboot!' said another pictsie.

These days everybody used the clacks, even little old ladies who used it to send him clacks messages complaining about all these newfangled ideas, totally missing the irony.

With some of the journalists, I've known them for years now, and I kind of consider them like my friends, so I always tend to joke around, and some people don't get it.

When companies are successful or not successful, they almost immediately jump to the wrong conclusions about how they got there or why they got there.

Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer.

There's a clip where he had someone miming me running around from keyboard to keyboard. Oh dear, I am sure a lot of people didn't know what he was going on about.

Christ. Women. I don't get you. I protect you, you get pissy. I don't protect you, you get pissy. I open doors, I'm patronizing. I don't open doors, I'm a caveman, wich by the way, I am. What the bipolar fuck? Beginning to think you babes don't have any clue what you want, or change your mind constantly just to dick with us.

But if there's one thing I've learned in life it's this: assume makes an ass out of 'u' and 'me.' 

He's assuming. And as the man once told me himself: assume makes an ass out of u and me.

I don't even want to try to understand it, and so begin to mistake it for something else after that, paling shadows of this original feeling, something inaudibly delicate that would not survive the passage into speech.