Quotes About Misinterpretation

Online, your quotes can now be picked up around the world, twisted, translated, and interpreted to mean the opposite of what you have actually said.

Sometimes, words are twisted and don't reach people in their intended way.

Most footballers are quite tense, aren't they? So many footballers have been stitched up over the years. They've got to mind what they say, be careful about this, careful about that, because something might be misconstrued, twisted around.

When you're in the public eye and do interviews, your words get twisted and people put you in a negative light.

I feel like what I say on Twitter has actually a lower rate of misinterpretation than what I say on interviews because I'm just kind of rambling on interviews, and I'm just talking, talking and talking.

It's typical of Andy Barr and his team, taking things out of context.

Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.

Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.

Always take a compliment, Caroline. Always take it for the way it was intended. You girls are always so quick to twist what others say. Simply say thank you and move on.

Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.

He told me and Rafe to stay put in case you came home, burn the note and get hot water and disinfectant and bandages ready—' 'Which would have come in useful, Rafe said, lighting another cigarette, 'if we'd been delivering a baby in Gone with the Wind . What on earth was he picturing? Home surgery on the kitchen table with Abby's embroidery needle?

I said she's not thick, kid. I didn't say she was Professor fucking Moriarty.

Oh, for fuck's sake; sometimes a raccoon is just a raccoon!

Like many men of deep humor, he made the error of believing that every man was also endowed with it. So, when he sometimes ventured a wry or jocular remark to some acquaintance, to lift the sombreness of these days, the remark was repeated eagerly as an evidence of his hard-heartedness or frivolity or even foolishness.

Who's to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How can one group of people look at the world and see one thing, and another see something completely different? One sees a town, another sees a desert. One sees beauty, another sees chaos." The skin of this world," he said quietly.

As Yazid, the tyrant of Karbala, never suffered even from a headache, people believed that he was blessed by Allah. But that was a misinterpretation. In reality, Allah had abandoned him completely. He wanted nothing to do with him.

I know nothing more annoying when people I don't know jump to conclusions on my person based on nothing but gossip or speculation.

I feel - and this goes back to social media and freedom of speech - when you're on a public platform, and you put something out there in front of people who don't know you, they might just perceive it in a very different way altogether.

As to Magyar, I think that my speech was incorrect, inappropriate.

There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.

Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?

according to the old joke, married people are often like little boys bathing, who cry with chattering teeth to the boys on the shore, 'Do come in, it's so warm' - it is not always warm.

Being called 'love' or 'my love' by someone doesn't necessarily mean that you are loved or even liked by them.

Somehow there was a lack of communication - She thought he said: "Till debt do us part."