Quotes About Misinterpretation

We suspect Dr. Clutterbuck's sense of hearing must be injured: for him the 'ear trumpet' magnifies but distorts sound, rendering it less distinct than before.

The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.

The truth is we were never considered for 'Guardians of the Galaxy.' It was misprinted. I think there was another directing team that had been considered.

I read all the great philosophers but most people just hear what they want to hear and it makes it easy for them to brand us devil worshippers.

Social media is dangerous for baseball players. Things can get taken out of context so fast. You can say something you don't want to say. It's dangerous.

We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said.

It's really hard to know what people want around here sometimes.

A bludgeon of wives (surely that must be the plural assignation)!

When you say anything controversial, you are likely to be blamed not so much for what you have said as for what people think that someone who has said what you said would also say.

Finnigin, you are guilty of great presumption! Just because Babooshpet did not speak to you, did not necessarily mean she lacked the ability to do so.

You're not exactly a bag of spanners, and certain male bits have a mind of their own, and can you please stop staring at me like I'm a sex offender.

To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth.

She's annihilating herself." "Alienating herself," Janet says. "I meant what I said," Mircia says.

If you're trying to write about what the Chinese people are talking about, you can sometimes get a distorted picture if you go online and look at the conversation on social media.

People focus on the labels when they are not sure what they mean. What people call socialism these days is Eisenhower Republicanism!

To all those who have drawn the inference from my words that Africa, as a continent, is somehow genetically inferior, I can only apologise unreservedly.

I tweet from bed. I love it because it's so quick. And it's funny. But it also leaves a lot of room for error because new people don't sense the sarcasm - there's no sarcasm font.

First impression is not the last reflection of a true friend, so if you are head over heels for someone who just bought you a cake, you'd better think twice before devouring your misery.

A primeira ignorância é a do analfabeto, isto é, do sujeito incapaz de ler. A segunda ignorância é a do sujeito que leu muitos livros, mas os leu de maneira incorreta.

That was Bold Heart? cried the shield maiden. That stupid bird told me he was the Bard, but I assumed he was lying. So many birds do. You can understand birds? said Pega… What's that one saying?... Thorgil listened. He's saying, 'I'm itchy. I'm itchy. I'm itchy.' And that one's saying, 'So am I. So am I. So am I.' The one on the beech tree is singing, 'Bird lice, bird lice, we've all got bird lice!' Knowing does kind of take the fun out of it, decided Pega.

Don't make the mistake of confusing the word of God with the missal industry that lives off it.

wrong, Miss Drew

And why did everyone persist in thinking the mute was exactly as they wanted him to be--when most likely it was all a very queer mistake?... In the battling tumult of voices he alone was silent.

People didn't always listen to the narrative, they just looked at the pictures.