Quotes About Misinterpretation

This process of interpretation, or sometimes misinterpretation, which has much to do with the expectations we bring to any given event, is one reason we might get the impression that there is a mismatch between perception and reality

As a consequence of its cultural myopia, the CIA misread the world.

Of course now I realise I was wrong to take what the Irish books said at face value anyway; the Irish would deliberately paint a black picture of the English and indeed the English government would encourage that, and vice versa; anything to emphasise the difference between the two nations' identities, even if in geopolitical terms they are firm allies.

If I got hit by a bus tomorrow, you'd get people going: 'Oh, we should make 'Mother' into an opera, it's what he would have wanted.'

The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets she took him.

She has heard what a loony you are, and she seems to think it may be hereditary. "I hope you are not like your uncle," she keeps saying, with a sort of brooding look in her eye.' 'You must have misunderstood her. "I hope you are like your uncle," she probably said. Or "Do try, darling, to be more like your uncle.

At present, he's got the idea that I'm a kind of ... Who was the chap who was such a devil with the other sex? ... Donald something. Donald Duck?' Don Juan. That's the fellow I mean

Even bullets are nothing compared to the ax murderers in people's eyes.

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Precision about language can be really, really annoying. It can make you miss the point of what the other person is saying altogether.

You winked, took the change. I should have seen it, Ed, as a sign that you were unreliable. Instead, I saw it as a sign of charming, which is why I didn't break it off right then and there.

How easy it is first to leap to a false conclusion about someone and then to view everything he does in light of that conclusion.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.

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About women? When I say soldiers I don't mean me. I wasn't no soldier anymore than a man that fixes watches is a watchmaker. And when I say women I don't mean you.

Proust cookies. It was literally all he knew of Proust, though he'd once had to listen to someone's lengthy argument that Proust had either described madeleines incorrectly or been describing something else entirely.

A little maybe; I've been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn't listen. Every time you said, 'Farm Boy do this' you thought I was answering 'As you wish' but that's only because you were hearing wrong. 'I love you' was what it was, but you never heard, and you never heard.' ~ Westley

He'll never catch up!" the Sicilian cried. "Inconceivable!" "You keep using that word!" the Spaniard snapped. "I don't think it means what you think it does.

You keep saying that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Sometimes translation stops you understanding.

The value of the new A&W burger depended on consumers comparing two fractions: 1/3 and 1/4. But fractions are difficult for everyone, because they're parts of things as opposed to whole objects. We like to count things, and fractions don't equal "things." So, we jump to the closest available whole numbers. 4 is bigger than 3, so we mistakenly infer that a 1/4-pounder is a bigger burger than a 1/3-pounder.

Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is. We seldom play games--we aren't that sophisticated.