Quotes About Misinterpretation

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

There's probably some misunderstanding of who I am and how I roll.

It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films.

If I've inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it's really backfired very badly on me.

When you're being earnest, people think you're being sarcastic, and when you're being sarcastic, they think you're being earnest. The moral in all this, of course, is that people should never attempt to communicate.

The word "see" is often used as a direct synonym for "understand"—"I see what you mean." Yet sometimes we see but we don't understand; worse, we see, then "understand" something that isn't true at all. Done well, a picture of data is worth the proverbial thousand words.

thought this uproariously funny, but no one laughed.

IT WASN'T THAT Moore

Mr Tanner frowned at him, as though he was a spelling mistake.

This was the closest anybody in Iraq came to finding WMDs. Even though it was obvious to me and my staff that there was no way the vans could have produced biological weapons, a month after we got the photos, the CIA published a twenty-eight-page pamphlet insisting that was what they were for. …I was bewildered - Colin Powell

They are not aesthetic like a puppy or a kitten. In fact, they always look drunk to me. Look at that one—you'd swear he had been hitting the gin.

North Americans think they know how to speak Christian, but what they say is actually a gross distortion. Either people do not know Christian words at all, or they have heard them but do not know what they mean, or they think they know what they mean when in fact they mean something completely different.

She had the right church, but the wrong pew.

Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.

Let me get this straight. The man with the gun says stay in your seat and you take that to mean jump around the room like demented grasshoppers.

Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.'fn1

A Primeira Lei Fundamental da Estupidez Humana afirma, sem ambiguidade, que «inevitavelmente, toda a gente subestima sempre o número de indivíduos estúpidos em circulação.»

I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.

You pounce on everything you said with a pair of tweezers and pluck it about until you can't remember exactly what it is you said, what context it was in, if you even said it, and if anyone heard you at all.

Actually, he told me later that I had turned him gay . . . by taking codeine again. And I said, "You know, I never read that warning on the label." I thought it said heavy machinery, not homosexuality—turns out I could have been driving those tractors all along! Turning

Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.

Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.

Littlefinger: A trade envoy from Lys once observed to me that Lord Stannis must love his daughter very well, since he'd erected hundreds of statues of her all along the walls of Dragonstone. Tyrion: My lord, those are gargoyles.