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Quotes About Misinterpretation

Men can make an idol of the Bible.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them.
~ Billy Corgan
me: just don't ask about his forty-three ex-boyfriends, okay? or ask him about why he's carrying around an axe. mom:... me: i'm kidding about the axe part.
~ David Levithan
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of living high.
~ Doug Larson
Heard about the young deaf boy who used sign language-One day he told his mother a dirty joke and she washed his hands out with soap
~ Red Skelton
Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?
~ Charles Ives
It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off.
~ David Byrne
It's entertaining to watch somebody break my music down or explain what he thinks I was thinking during the process of making these records. Because... he has no idea.
~ Dr. Dre
The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.
~ Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
~ Andre Malraux
I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa
~ Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
It's easy to confuse a woman for a philosophy
~ Zadie Smith
He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
~ Queen Victoria
If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.
~ Francis Crick
Mmm. O positive, my favorite." "Is it? I thought it was a cabernet sauvignon." "So it is," said Adrian, straight-faced. "My mistake.
~ Richelle Mead
Don't resent the artist for painting the wrong picture of you after you provided the colors of your character.
~ Tyconis D. Allison Ty
People will print what they will capturing but try to give the real image through positive thinking for that you will prove them how they are wrong!
~ Bruce Mbanzabugabo
It's human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation.
~ William Bernstein
Granted, he found little to say for the Plains Indians, an uninteresting race in need of humanization, made hideous by nature. He assumed everyone was an enemy until proven otherwise, and expected they would have to be killed, since violence was "the only corrective they understand.
~ William C. Davis
Those once bitten by a snake fear even a twisted rope.
~ William Dalrymple
The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
~ William Faulkner
It is a common fallacy to believe that the law of large numbers acts as a force endowed with memory seeking to return to the original state, and many wrong conclusions have been drawn from this assumption.
~ William Feller
"Inconceivable!" You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
~ William Goldman
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.
~ William Goldman