Quotes About Misinterpretation

A pedestrian is someone who thought there were a couple of gallons left in the tank.

People with BPD judge themselves harshly all the time and find judgments lurking around the corner of every raised eyebrow, sneeze, yawn, or shoulder shrug. You must be acutely aware of how your responses can be misconstrued as judgments.

Sometimes it's the girl who wouldn't give a kiss that the boys call a slut.

Don't bother to argue anything on the Internet. And I mean, ANYTHING.... The most innocuous, innocent, harmless, basic topics will be misconstrued by people trying to deconstruct things down to the sub-atomic level and entirely miss the point.... Seriously. Keep peeling the onion and you get no onion.

James Howard Williams died during an emergency appendectomy. So accustomed to the burning ache of his ulcer, he mistook the new, sharper agony as more of the same. The man who never spoke of his woes stoically bore the pain of a burst appendix until it was too late.

I especially want to change the way we as Latinas see our beauty. I feel that there is a misinterpretation of what we're supposed to look like.

Mexican cars are just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat.

I told my wife she looks sexy with black fingernails. Now she thinks I slammed the car door on her hand on purpose.

Office gossip annoyed him because it always proved better than the truth.

If that was Tom Simms," said Audrey, "I'd say he was probably drunk and his mermaid was a porpoise.

Everybody who flashed the signs of loyalty he took to be loyal. Everybody who flashed the signs of intelligence he took to be intelligent. And so he had failed to see into his daughter, failed to see into his wife, failed to see into his one and only mistress—probably had never even begun to see into himself

You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.

We believe in the wrong things, that's what frustrates me the most. Not the lack of belief, but the belief in the wrong things. You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.

Like most of Salinger's characters, she wouldn't be such a fuckup, you felt, if these fucked-up things didn't keep happening to her. ... We believe in the wrong things, I wrote, using the same pen Boomer had used on his arm. That's what frustrates me the most. Not the lack of belief, but the belief in the wrong things. You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.

Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.

That's the second time you've presumed to know my thoughts and been wrong about it.

Dad said that the guy who can play guitar is going to be the life of the party. He's confusing life with death.

He must have made that before he died.

Some people believe that too much information is a dangerous thing, but it is only this idea that is dangerous.

It's easy to confuse a woman for a philosophy

For years, I've been interviewed, and they write what they thought I thought or what they thought I said. Sometimes it's accurate, and often it isn't.

When parents accused me of polluting young minds, I was hurt.

The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.

Apropos of this, I asked my father one day whether it would be possible for me to see Mme. de Stael. My father, mother, and Alphonse all burst out laughing, and Alphonse said: "Where in the world has she sprung from?" To which my father replied: "What fools we are! She springs from the Carmelites." "My child, Mme. de Stael is dead," said my mother gently.