Quotes About Misinterpretation

Why does everybody think that women are debasing themselves when we expose the conditions of our own debasement? Why do women always have to come clean? The magnificence of Genet's last great work, The Prisoner of Love, lies in his willingness to be wrong: a seedy old white guy jerking off on the rippling muscles of the Arabs and Black Panthers. Isn't the greatest freedom in the world the freedom to be wrong?

A store-bought trinket with no history, no story. I knew, deep down, when he gave it to me that he didn't understand anything about me.

All men are dogs

Mddle Eastern history is filled with minefields, not because of what actually happened in the past, but because of how people read back the present into the past.

With growing disbelief, Jess yet again felt herself slipping into the gap - that gap of perception between what is really happening to a person and what others think is happening.

One or the other of us said 'I can't,' and if it was me I don't know why because I wanted to. Maybe I'm just remembering it wrongly to help me get over the rejection.

Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?

The best example is boondocks. Originally in Tagalog it signified a mountain, but, when poor natives explained that they came from mountainous areas, outsiders imagined the word was a general term for any slummy or primitive place.

There was only one who understood me, and he understood me wrongly." Miss

Men never understand what honor is, though they're always talking about it

What you spoke of just now was a mistake, not love

It most often happens that you argue hotly only because you can't understand what precisely your opponent wants to prove.

Jamais le Christ n'aurait prononcé ces paroles s'il avait su le mauvais usage qu'on en ferait ; c'est tout ce qu'on a retenu de l'Évangile.

A huszadik század kezdetétÅ'l fogva rosszul megírt dráma volt.

The difficulty in making sense of even simple speech is well appreciated by computer scientists who struggle to create machines that can respond to natural language. Their frustration is illustrated by a possibly apocryphal story of the early computer that was given the task of translating the homily "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak." into Russian and then back to English. According to the story, it came out: "The vodka is strong but the meat is rotten.

My wife is a sex object. Every time I ask for sex, she objects.

Yet everywhere he looked, what should surely bring people together only seemed to drive them apart. The more they preached what the prophets had said from Moses down through Jesus, the less they seemed to hear those same prophets' words. How could the idea of divine unity result in such human disunity?

Clearly, therefore, the preaching is an explanation of the healings. On the one hand, the healings — marvelous as they are — do not explain themselves. They could be misinterpreted — as in fact they were by Jesus' enemies, who attributed his healing works to Satanic power. The works by themselves did not communicate the new fact. That had to be stated in plain words: "The kingdom of God has drawn near.

I saw a robin redbreast in Central Park today, but it turned out to be a sparrow with an exit wound.

Historical seen, said Alice, people have almost always have whrong when they have said that.

He thought he saw a BuffaloUpon the chimneypiece:He looked again, and found it wasHis sister's husband's niece.

Going quail hunting is like saying "I'm going fishing," and going to a goldfish bowl and going "Got it!"

Here's the problem: People have completely and utterly forgotten one thing when it comes to communication - intent.

Sometimes people come to my shows and think I'm a Christian artist, and they put their hands up in the air, like they do. But first of all, I'm a Jewish girl from the Valley, and I'm from Los Angeles. It's funny to be misinterpreted.