Quotes About Misinterpretation

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.

I thought you could feel love for me. I don't say you loved me, but it seemed to me you could. I never had that and, although in ancient literature they talked of it, I didn't know what they meant any more than when men in those same books talked about 'honor' and killed each other for its sake.

Contaban los españoles que muchos indios practicaban la sodomía, que en España se paga con la muerte, aunque los incas la habían prohibido. Buena prueba de la lujuria de esa gente eran las cerámicas eróticas que los aventureros mostraban en las tabernas para regocijo de los parroquianos, quienes no sospechaban que se pudiese holgar de tan variadas maneras. Aseguraban que las madres rompían la virginidad de sus hijas con los dedos antes de entregarlas

To me, the zombies have always just been zombies. They've always been a cigar. When I first made 'Night of the Living Dead,' it got analyzed and overanalyzed way out of proportion. The zombies were written about as if they represented Nixon's Silent Majority or whatever. But I never thought about it that way.

They talk of my drinking but never my thirst.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

My husband wasn't listening when the doctor asked for "a urine, stool, and semen sample" . . . so I just told him they wanted his shorts.

As it turns out, what looks like science sometimes is not.

Part of the problem with the discovery of the so-called breast-cancer genes was that physicians wrongly told women that had the genetic changes associated with the genes that they had a 99% chance of getting breast cancer. Turns out all women that have these genetic changes don't get breast cancer.

People tell me I look angry. I thought my dad was mad at me his whole life, but it turns out that was just his mug - and I inherited it.

Sometimes I hold back from tweeting certain things. Sometimes you're emotional, and you want to tweet a lyric or whatever it may be. I can't do that because if I do, it's, 'Oh, this means this and that she must be going through this...' It's like, what the hell?

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.

Sometimes, you get portrayed the way you don't want to be portrayed.

Nothing you say can ensure that the other person will get it, or respond the way you want. You may never exceed his threshold of deafness.

We would turn everything into songs in those days...A lot of people think "Alice's Restaurant" was an anti-war song. It's not.

He wanted to shake her until every one of her chattering teeth hit the ground. "What the hell are you trying to say? Why did she choose me?" Jodie eyed him warily. "Because she thinks you're stupid.

He mounted the stairs. "You're a romantic, Daisy. It's not that I think I'm so irresistible—God knows, I don't—but over the years it's been my observation that the minute any man puts a red flag in front of a woman, she changes it in her mind to a green one.

As for your back rubs... Study an anatomy book, pal, because what you've been rubbing isn't my back.

When I was in medical school, I embarrassed myself horribly when I found a 'lump' in my breast and frantically ran to one of the older doctors to find out if I had cancer. I found out I had a rib.

What if I told you that you were a hundred percent wrong?' 'Wow,' she said. 'You are good. Talk about not being the bad guy in your own movie. 'You are a hundred percent wrong ,' she repeated, with a horrendous, over-the-top-Yankee-fied imitation of his barely-there drawl.

And so I'm stupid for thinking they might be useful. Because of something Johanna Mason said while she was oiling her breasts for wrestling.

Did you hear that?" the duke asked with a wide grin, turning to Dare. "She said 'papa.'" The viscount returned the candy dish and tea tray to the relocated end table. "I distinctly heard 'baboon.'" "Hm, well, you're distinctly deaf.

The nostalgic is looking for a spiritual addressee. Encountering silence, he looks for memorable signs, desperately misreading them.

Sometimes we misinterpret, sometimes we misunderstand, sometimes we make mistakes.