Quotes About Misinterpretation

When you assume, you make an ass out of u and me.

Like the French frontier police who thought that some of Picasso's Cubist drawings were plans of the country's defenses.

Guerillas? There are guerillas here in Dixie?" It was lucky I was looking down. I thought he meant "gorillas" for a minute, and I was having a picture in my head that was crazy wonderful. Then my brain translated.

I don't see the point of Twitter, so I write a lot of stuff to mess with people. But because I used to do dumb things on the court, people think I'm dumb in regular life. But once people meet me, they feel dumb themselves.

A lot of time, we get ourselves in trouble, especially people who have a microphone and start to talk about things we assume.

One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten

Before an explanation can be too simple, it must first be wrong. But often the fact that some explanation seems too simple becomes a substitute for showing that it is wrong.

the ignorance of a bigwig who asked if Michelangelo's fresco The Last Judgment was about a trial of Mussolini.

And though there's a grain of truth in every rumor, I've found that the worst gossip usually starts with something harmless.

Whitney misread my silent horror. "I'm excited, too! And don't worry, I snagged your friend Ella Francis as well. We can all hang together." Emphasized in that clueless way adults speak when trying to sound hip.

And there is the offending line "Black girls just wanna get fucked all night" from "Some Girls." Well, we've been on the road with a lot of black chicks for many years, and there's quite a few that do. It could have been yellow girls or white girls.

I was dating this guy and we would spend all day text messaging each other. And he thought that he could tell that he liked me more because he actually spelt the word 'YOU' and I just put the letter 'U'.

A snake-bit man is afraid of a rope.

A common mistake in business writing is to use quotation marks for emphasis: This bolt provides "superior" tensile strength. When the head of a large company put quotation marks around a word in an important paper, his administrative assistant asked him why he did that. He replied that it was to stress the truth of the point. The assistant asked whether it would stress the truth if he were to register at a hotel as John Durgin and "wife.

Lo peor que le puede ocurrir a cualquiera es que se le comprenda por completo.

One can speak without understanding. What

There was never any question of marriage if that is what you think. Men do not understand me. They say, 'you needn't worry anymore. You don't have to do anything because I will take care of you.' But what they really mean is you don't have to do anything except be there for me.

You don't have to explain something you haven't said.

I'm not. I just think you might be reading too much into a musical selection.

I meant it to be jokey, but it came out sounding bitter

Optics can be a bitch.

There is a point when a personal opinion shades off into an error of fact.

Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede -- not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above 14.

Populairer Vortrag heißt heutzutage nur zu oft der, wodurch die Menge in den Stand gesetzt wird, von etwas zu sprechen, ohne es zu verstehen.